While legal in some places, I would still consider it unsportsmanlike, which used to matter more than it does now. A lot of the questionable behavior is in artificial situations where we make fish easy targets for it, more so than in a natural environment. Maybe we should re think that. Pursuit of the quarry in their own natural environment, with skill and deception, a nimrod is a skillfull angler by the way, is what sport fishing used to be. Meat fishing for groceries by any means takes something away from that. There is a difference between sport fishing and what a lot of people are doing now.