Switzerland to ban catch and release fishing (Live bait and barbed hooks also banned )

Chattanoogan ^ | May 8, 2008 | European Fishing Tackle Trade Association.

[GRRRRR]

OMG!!

You ARE RIGHT!!!

http://www.spotlightgermany.com/articles/golf.htm

[tarheelswamprat]

"can take my bait only from my cod dead hands.

A whale of a pun! (I know, I know: a mammal, but they both swim in the ocean.

Hey, no problem! Here on Free Republic we don't just mix our metaphors, we puree them... /grin

[tarheelswamprat]

I’ve been practicing “catch, fillet and release” for years...

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

It is. And can be very difficult and unnecessarily brutal if not done correctly.

[woollyone]

mmmmm ttrrrooutttt! (Homer Simpson mouth gurgling noises here)

...it it lunch time yet?

[TexanToTheCore]

IIRC...according to the Forest Service about 15 years ago..

The survival rate for released trout is 96% or 97%. The catch and release ethic of our current fishermen has restored our trout streams to a degree that is hard to believe unless you have been fishing for the last 35 years.

Increasing the cost of fishing wil lead to a rise in trips to the US for trout. The Holy Grail of trout fishing for English trout fisherman is the Madison River in the US. It is cheap, you can do it for a week for the same amount of money that you would spend for a day (1000-3000 per day) in the UK.

I have caught thousands of trout but have not creeled none since 1972.

[TexanToTheCore]

have not creeled one.....sigh

[TexasRepublic]

That is so nuts that I wonder why our commies didn’t think of it first?

[mickey finn]

I release almost all of the trout that I catch. I keep all hatchery steelhead, and release the wild ones to spawn (most waters this is the law, and a good one). I did keep a nice wild Chinook last fall, and it was legal. It was from a healthy fishery. If a fish is landed quickly, revived and released, they most likely will be fine.

This law in Switzerland is about animal rights! We need to fight to keep this crap out of this country.

I go fishing to

[rogue yam]

I prefer “Kill and Release” anyway.

I release 'em into Lake Crisco.

[Luke21]

“That is so nuts that I wonder why our commies didn’t think of it first?”

Shhhhhhhhh

[PAR35]

Hit a live fish in the head with a "blunt object"... you mean like a hammer or rubber mallet or a brick??

Be sure to ask the fish to lay still while you swing at it.

[Cronos]

Ja, Ja, mein herr — in Deutschland, you need eine license to play golf. It is sehr gute that way — we teach you before you can play. Life is not all fun and games, eh? Ve shud also have potty training licenses, ja?