JohnSLocker
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Have a nice day and enjoy your weekend.
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Setting yourself a challenge.
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The bad one
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I've got a challenge for you..... STOP weighing fish by hooking the scales in the gills. A simple carrier bag from any of the supermarket will cost you 5p won't break the bank will it! Weighs about an ounce, folds up to next to now't fits in the smallest of pockets.
So do you think you can rise to this challenge of fish welfare or what?
So do you think you can rise to this challenge of fish welfare or what?
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if that roach had been caught on any of our club waters using a set up like that and weighing it like that, your challenge would have been to stop yourself from being thrown in. The anti angling brigade would have a field day with that video, also you could face prosecution under the protection of wildlife act.
JohnSLocker
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Wow, someone must have rattled your cage today. Valid point and I will endeavour to bring a carrier bag with me in future. I hope you have a nice day and enjoy your weekend. Thankyou for commenting.
The bad one
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Indeed Mark!
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regarding weighing of fish by using the gills.
how would you like it if someone put a meathook through your lips or cheek and
hauled you up to weigh you. ?
how would you like it if someone put a meathook through your lips or cheek and
hauled you up to weigh you. ?
JohnSLocker
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I take that this is obviously something you are passionate about, but guys come on. Point made, and as for being so dramatic as trying to throw someone in the water I think we’re being a bit extreme. There is no wonder coarse anglers fall out with each other so much. Life is a learning curve. And as for prosecution under the cruelty to wildlife act. I think you have a very good imagination. Thankfully for both of it seems I wasn’t on your club water. I was fishing in a beck behind a reservoir on private land. Enjoy your day.
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Are you honestly asking that? As an angler who catches fish with a hook? Come on. Leave it out.
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read up on the act and learn. I couldn't give a toss where you are fishing, it boils down to cruelty and giving the anti angling brigade including Peta, ammunition against anglers. And as for throwing in ,it does happen, Like you said, life is a learning curve and it seems you have a lot to learn.
The bad one
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Yes careless anglers who put videos on fishing sites without practicing the simples of fish welfare procedures.
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I would also make sure my kids had a life preserver on if they were that close to water. All it takes is a couple of seconds lack of concentration on your part and he could be in the water.
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I could have sworn there was a video at the start of this thread,
steve2
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I have a challenge for you go fishing on fish welfare grounds, stop going fishing.Then we wont have anymore of these posts about fish welfare and how fish like having hooks stuck into them.
mikench
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Out ôf interest did the video on this post and earlier ones ask you to subscribe ! I bet he hadn't reckoned on the reaction his video generated!
Bo11ocks,if it was all to do with catching I'd set nets,spear fish,or night lines,it's stupidity like that,that makes this forum a joke,nobody said that catching fish on a hook was humane,but weighing one on a scales hook is a disgrace,as you well know...:disillusionment:
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like most anglers on here, I will use barbless hooks, easier to get out, I will unhook a fish and have it back in the water, without it flapping around on a unhooking mat, mine are unhooked in the landing net across my legs, then straight back in the water.No one has said that fish like having hooks stuck into them.I do know though that I have caught the same fish a couple of times in one session, on the same bait and in the same swim. By the way do you eat fish whether it be trout ,salmon, or sea fish. ?