So if you're pier fishing, rock/cliff fishing or maybe off a high jetty, how do you get your fish in? Do you climb down and handball it out of the water? No.
A little disappointed with Ray Mears
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For a mackerel? Nope never seen it done for that application, only with larger fish and you'd be stuffed with a conger, but then you'd be using heavy enough line (if that's what you're targetting) and you'd haul it up by hand with gloves on.
Or at least written to Mr Mears to ask for some eplanation of the technique used, ir have you just decided to vent on a public forum without any prior effort or research. My contributions to this thread have mostly been at the level of its origin, free explosions of my imagination with no thought of offering any real content.
A drop net for a 40 pound or larger Cobia? Or a 20 pound King Mackerel? Actually no. We generally use a pier gaff (a very large treble hook or quad hook on a long rope) when on the pier and pul it up hand over hand.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukWkLA7Gvj4
www.hookbuzz.com/pier-and-bridge-gaff-hooks
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Not so much vent as state disappointment with someone I genuinely admire. Of course, I could address it to the production company, or Ray Mears, but I see the board more as conversation between friends.
It seems a little over the top to expect everyone with an opinion on something to follow a due procedure before they even think of commenting on what is, after all, a forum for discussion.
Personal insults are supposedly not allowed on BCUK and yours is out of order; I'm amazed the mods did not remove your post or the offending word at the very least.
As for the original post well it seems the practise is common there and other places so not really a lot to complain about in my opinion.
I agree with you, though would just clarify the original post as perhaps not so much about the practice of humanely treating the animals you intend to kill to eat.
I have the greatest regard for the trout which I do catch and kill. They are beautiful things, and I feel a great kinship with them when I take them. They are, after all sustaining me, however unwillingly. There is a certain moral ambiguity, as I don;t really need to take them. After all, if I wanted fish to eat, I could just buy them. But I see the whole process as connecting me with the cycle of nature (however wishy-washy that may sound), and returning me to a more natural being; I catch and kill something rather than have someone do it for me, and in that, I want to dispatch the animal with as little extra suffering as possible. I owe it that, at least.
True, the whole process is bloody and painful, but to prolong that process when it need not be prolonged, especially when I assumed Ray Mears was of at one with the First Nations' ethic, seems hard to take; especially after I had tried to explain that principle to my daughter, and after telling her how Ray Mears was head and shoulders above the likes of Bear Grills. And there he is, doing all the things I told her you should never do (well, he didn't de-hook the fish while it was still alive, but you get my point).
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So you put some one on a pedestal then found them to be human and felt a need to tell the world about it?
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