Well, my fave extreme fishing program is Extreme Fishing with Robson Greene. He’s a Geordie actor/singer who loves fishing and the programmes all have him going around the world catching (or failing to catch) all sorts of fish. And he’s really, really enthusiastic about it all!
Some of the full programs are on youtube I’ve linked to the 1st episode of season 3 - I think the earlier series were better, but I couldn’t see them there.
Personally I don’t get to fish much but I enjoy it when I do go. I cannot stand fishing shows. They are boring…especially when the star fisherman of the show will land a whopper and then put it back in the water with some statement like,“get along there…boy …we’ll catch you again”,
What?
I would keep that fish and have him frying later that night. However…I am normal. These fishermen on these shows do not even have the nerve to keep their catch…they are sooooo “whipped” by political correctness.
How many fish can one person eat? They should keep fish even though they will go to waste?
Catch and release is extremely common among people who fish for recreation. There are perfectly valid reasons to practice it that have nothing to do with “political correctness”. (The primary one being conservation of stock.)
Yeah. they did a show once, and I think it was that same MORON. he was gonna show us all how to survive (uh huh) in Panama.
I was all curious and interested, because I’ve been there. That dumb STUPID MORON!!! proceeded to do what any imbecile , any fucking household appliance would know not to do. This jack hole went down into the sticky gooey quicksandy glue like mud of a tidal flat/swamp/morass… you get the point, down there with the bugs, the poison snakes, the caymans, the bugs, the tide coming in, and more bugs.
Dude! It’s muddy and it’s really sticky icky mud, and there’s bugs and snakes and gator like critters, and the tide’s coming in and there’s bugs and shit.
Aw fuck it. Partway through the show I was hoping the snakes, or the tide, or the stiky mud or the bugs would get his stupid ass.
Reality? That’s not reality, that’s stupidity.
Or if you don’t want to murder the fish, just torture it for awhile.
If that isn’t it, you can just dip a string in the water and drink. Same idea.
Just FTR, I would watch this — every single episode.
If the marlin had happened to look up at the wrong time (or the right time, depending on your viewpoint), he would be The Amazing Shishkabob Man instead. That fish would have sailed off, wearing him like a hood ornament.
I’m not the person to debate with as to whether fish feel pain in a similar way to mammals. I was merely objecting to bullrun’s characterization of catch and release.
But . . . you believe that catching fish for food is murder? Have I misunderstood?
this thread is teh win. best laugh i had all day.
I know what candirus are. No thank you. I’d rather jump into a wood chipper.