Sounds like my niece got involved over there. She complained to her fly fishing mother that it hurt the fish when she did catch and release.
My obvious question was, "would she rather you caught and ate?"
Now the good news..... I found out yesterday that a new friend of mine has a very large pond and she loves to fish. As soon as it warms up enough for them to start moving, we are at it.
Grammy, get your popping bugs ready. Fly fishing for bass and bluegill in a pond is wonderful, one of my favorite types of fishing.
Did you know the popping bug was invented by a guy from Tennessee, H.E. Peckinpaw (sp)? He dropped a piece of cork from his coffee thermos in the water while fishing, and the trout tore it up. This was in one of the middle Tennessee streams, I think the Hiwassee.
So, he invented the popping bug.
I'm a regular historian (grin)