Donagh wrote:Muck wrote:Obviously a very touchy subject for some
I have checked out all legalities and was curious if any were already doing it on the site.
If you think Bass are hard to come by then why not check out the galleries on spearo.co.uk or deeperblue.net forums although these are mostly southern England.
It is certainly fair game and relevant to the forum
This is what I took objection to. This is why I mentioned bass. I couldn't give a fiddlers if a guy takes a small quantity of flats or pollack for the table. This post recommends it as a way to get good bass for the table.
it seems very easy to read into one post and give objections, fair is fair, but as Muck has since stated
My spearing is done with intent on feeding myself the odd shellfish or decent size pollack or Flatty. Bass is very doubtful
Not interested in undersize fish
as for spearfishing being moved to this section of the forum, it was me who asked for it to be moved here, as people were saying it didnt belong in the shore Q&A, but i believe it is an issue that ocurs around our coastline and even may get popular, if it's legal it's fair.
as for the issue of concervation i reckon spearfishers have less impact on fish stocks that your average everyday fisherman (no dont get me confused with those who practice catch and release and are concervation minded, i'm talking the ones who go fishing take the odd one or two for the pot) a spearfisher can target a particular fish whereas an angler may get the odd one or two undersized before getting one for the pot.. i could even go as far as saying i've seen with my own eyes so called professional fishermenreleasing fish that have been out of water so long that the mortality rate was extremely high(and i wasnt the only one who saw this)
now dont get me wrong, i'm not saying its a great sport and everyone should be doing it, but i'm not condemning those who practice the sport either.
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