RA3,

Why is it more ethical to fool a fish into injesting your hook then proceeding to drag it to shore while it struggles violently only to let it go so some other sadist can do the same thing.

Believe it or not most non-fisherman believe that C&R is morally corrupt..."why would you drag a fish to shore only to let it go."

You have a perverted code of ethics, one that wouldn't hold water in any philisophical debate.

For argument sake,if we are hooking fish in the mouth, or anywhere for that matter, for our own pleasure, why is it necessary that they bite. Isn't the end result the same?