Having spent that last few nights away on business I re-acquainted myself with Sky Sports (having got rid of it 4 years ago). So, on returning from a few sherbets with my customer I was pleased to see ?Fishing? advertised a bit later, so I stayed up to watch.
What I saw really turned my stomach. It was a shark fishing contest between the US and UK.
First, it was simply one Blue Shark being hauled in after another with absolutely no real ?fishing? interest (OK ? it is a ?sport? channel and it was a ?competition?). I turned over after 30 mins, but when I switched over an hour later, there they were, hauling away still.
All the fish caught were ?cut off?, leaving a wire trace and hook in them, even though Keith Arthur reassured us they would dissolve in 3-4 days.
When they twisted violently on ?landing? all the commentator (Keith) would say is how skilled the guys who helped cut the wire were, and that they could easily get tangled and get dragged in themselves (poor loves). Oh, and we should not worry about all the blood, that?s just their gills bursting and would soon repair.
Also the anglers were awarded more points if they landed the fish on lighter lines (I kid you not), which resulted in break offs with even more line trailing from them.
I found the whole thing totally distasteful in the extreme, and even worse, John Wilson was fishing in the event. Not what I would have attributed to him.
Yuk.
What I saw really turned my stomach. It was a shark fishing contest between the US and UK.
First, it was simply one Blue Shark being hauled in after another with absolutely no real ?fishing? interest (OK ? it is a ?sport? channel and it was a ?competition?). I turned over after 30 mins, but when I switched over an hour later, there they were, hauling away still.
All the fish caught were ?cut off?, leaving a wire trace and hook in them, even though Keith Arthur reassured us they would dissolve in 3-4 days.
When they twisted violently on ?landing? all the commentator (Keith) would say is how skilled the guys who helped cut the wire were, and that they could easily get tangled and get dragged in themselves (poor loves). Oh, and we should not worry about all the blood, that?s just their gills bursting and would soon repair.
Also the anglers were awarded more points if they landed the fish on lighter lines (I kid you not), which resulted in break offs with even more line trailing from them.
I found the whole thing totally distasteful in the extreme, and even worse, John Wilson was fishing in the event. Not what I would have attributed to him.
Yuk.