They torture us, we torture them back

July 22nd, 2008 by fishing_expert

88% of the time you're returning home It’s both surprising and predictable, a statistical glimpse of the evolution of fishing and the vestiges of outdoor tradition after a couple of decades of Ronald McDonald, over protective parents, and absent the sterile blessing of Saranwrap.

Pennsylvania Fish and Boat commission released an trout angling survey last week that has an uncommon tilt; of those surveyed only 3% confessed they fished to eat the result.

82% fished bait, 59% lures, and 40% were fly fishermen, the majority preferred bait (53%), but they also preferred to release the fish (88%) at least half the time.

That seems abnormally high – and may include small fish thrown back in favor of larger quarry, which may qualify as “half the time.”

Pennsylvania being a couple thousand miles away, California’s interpretation is to foist 97% of their dead fish off on their neighbors, the remaining 3% keep fish and are neighbors of fishermen who don’t.