Originally Posted By: Jgrizzle
I like the hunting reference. When they are comparing snagging to hunting, they're just classifying snagging as hunting.... not fishing. Hunting is hunting and fishing is fishing.


JGrizzle,

I referred to hunting not because it's the same as fishing, but because people consider hunting to be "sporting" even though it doesn't involve any sort of willing take.

For what it's worth, the take is my favorite part of fishing and I don't have any desire to floss any fish or any need to "rationalize" anything. I usually fish with bobbers or hardware, which makes flossing not very likely.

People mostly just seem to be saying "that's the way it is" in support of whatever they believe, rather than *why* they believe it to be that way.