Catch & Release seems pointless and cruel to me 😔

if your not catching them to eat them leave them alone.

I respectfully disagree. What better way to enjoy fishing and still allow a bass to grow and someone else have the fun catching it. Don’t get me wrong, we keep our striper bass and cook them but we enjoy releasing these beautiful bass to continue growing. I have fished for 40 years and have never seen a bass I caught and released die. Catch them, weigh them and photograph them and put them back in the water. No problem! HAPPY FISHING 🎣🐟🇨🇱

How about everyone just mind their own business and stop trying to force your version of “right” on others. Who cares? It really shows the state of fragile minds when this is someone’s real first world problem… 😂😂😂

Even if you are fishing to eat, you have to release undersized fish.

Then DON'T Go Fish.... Go BACK Too MOMMY'S Basement and Play with Your video games, Or YOURSELF. FACT THAT. """OOHH,, AND have a NICE DAY."""!

California has been cutting down on their stocking of trout in the Eastern Sierra and if you catch and release properly they will live to fight again. it's not a new thing educate yourself whoever wrote this.

You’re obviously not a fisherman.

many of you have missed the author's point. Is it cruel and unsportsmanlike to catch and rease fish. i am a catch and release fisherman and i am a bit conflicted with the ethics of it. in my state you are not allowed to keep black bass between 10" and 18" long. i have fly fished for trout in idaho in catch and release streams that require single barbless hooks. i tell myself that bass are relatively tough but i try hard to handle them gently. trout are sensitive when out of water so i am even more careful. It is also hard to clean and filet catfish in a hunae way because catfish stay alive even after you start slicing them. but all of that being said, i dont want give up fishing.

It's an art of knowing how to remove the hooks and handling so no fish fatalities occur

Lame article . Go refill your sippy cup .