The Catch and Release Movement in USA

Has gone to an extreme.

The majority of trout/pike/bass anglers are STRICT catch and release anglers.

It is so far one way nowadays that if you keep a fish you are frowned at when you leave the waterway.

Even injuried fish are released.

If the fish are BLEEDING they go home with.

I fish for the excitement of the catch and to eat fish.

I am NOT a believer in mixing Golf and Fishing.

To injure fish for the sheer joy of the catch is NOT fishing.....It is playing.....

I trout fish the most.

In the last 5 years.....

I average 1,500 trout a year.

I average 30 trout a year taken.

Middle road is the BEST in my opinion.

10 years ago............

I kept maybe 300 trout a year.

The catch/release movement has had some effect on me also.

If the mountains in the background look familar....They should......

They are the Alps.

I recently was a guest of an angler from the Munich Club.

I had a wonderful time.

I fished ALL day and only injured 2 trout while there and we GRILLED that evening.