On that point Byron I would like to resurrect this thread.
I read a very interesting letter in a recent issue of a game fishing magazine. Some of the comments are worthy of note.
"Catch and release has become a thoughtless process employed by those who consider the death of an individual fish to be cruel and unnecessary. It has become a product of woolly minded thinking by, largely, urban visitors to the countryside. In the natural world, animals die so that others may live. The loss of the individual is of no matter to the race or species, in fact it is very often beneficial and necessary.
For anglers to set up catch and release as some sort of religion to support their own lack of desire to kill and eat their prey, and to justify their desire to use living creatures as playthings, is little more than human conceit."
Interesting stuff methinks.