Fly fisherman, can you answer this?
Question by Ghost of society: Fly fisherman, can you answer this?
Exactly where is it written that if you use a fly rod you have to practice catch and release?
Some of my pals and I really like to catch salmon on fly rods and we get some extremely irate folks who see us keeping salmon. This fishery has salmon that are transplanted/stocked for one cause, that purpose is that they are transplanted/stocked there just to be harvested. We get some that come more than to us and say...
"that is just so really incorrect that you use a fly rod and you do not practice catch and release" - "an individual requirements take your gear away for for employing a fly rod and killing fish"
some of them get extremely worked up when they see my buddies or I whacking a salmon on the head to hold it. Some just ignore me when I tell them this... you do know this place transplants/stocks these fish just for harvesting. I also tell them that when fly fishing was beginning those fly fisherman back in the old days kept fish, you can see old pictures of them with a stringer or a creel that is complete of fish.
These ones who created these comments about making use of a fly rod and not practicing catch and release are fly fisherman themselves. Thought the way I wrote that would have been self explanatory in that.
I also told these ones that with these transplanted/stocked salmon, that carrying out catch and release would be ridiculous. These transplanted/stocked fish are dumb, they do absolutely nothing but swim about in circles until they die. The wild ones that are left in this technique they do not stick about they swim on up to their spawning grounds. We can keep wild ones and that is a bonus catch, since the meat is so much far better than the transplanted/stocked salmon. The wild ones they are not effortless for some people to get in they genuinely fight... the transplanted/stocked ones they fight pretty good but you now proper away when you hook a wild salmon. The wild salmon they tend to get by all the fisherman and survive, simply because they typically bolt on by... as opposed to those transplanted/stocked ones.
Best answer:
Answer by Steven M
You did not say who 'they' are? Are they other fisherman, tourist, PETA? What?
A lot of fly clubs practice 'catch and release'. This is do to two factors. One they are mainly mature guys that have had their fill of cleaning fish. Secondly they like to make positive the streams and lakes keep stocked with catchable fish.
As far as hatchery stocked steams I often maintain my limit, then finish the day undertaking catch and release.
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