I'm a bit confused by parts of your post Aunty. Are you suggesting there are some members with adequat incomes here passing some kind of a judgement on anyone, as opposed to giving a rightful backed up opinion about snagged fish?

I also agree that if in a really tough situation, as you describe your friend's former condition, that people will do whatever they can to put food on the table. I hope we all would be that way; by trying all the legal means first before trying the most benign of illegal means within utter necessity.

Do ya think I can get away with keeping all the fish I catch, including snagged ones, and giving them to the actually needy would qualify as an exempt "Robin Hood". If so, gee maybe I'll try that out. Lots of fun. Naah.

KSR, clearly you didn't understand the content in my above post. And what you did tranpose of my opinion into your post is way off the mark! Try a re-read.

RT