I'm glad I spent 400 bucks for a life membership to B.A.S.S. As for peta, The organization took a shot at fishing came by erecteing billboards in Spanish Fork, Utah and Bossier City, Louisiana – areas that recently hosted fishing tournaments. The boards depict a dog with a fishhook imbedded in its lip. The billboard reads, “If you wouldn’t do it to a dog, why do it to a fish?”
That's it. I'm going fishing in Catskill Creek again. Then I will be fishing for snappers, flounder and blue-claw crabs in Bay Park. Look at this article: New Orleans - PETA's newest ad, featuring "good ol' boy" and reformed fisher Jay Kelly, from Montgomery, Ala., is flooding the airwaves with PETA's plea to anglers to "lay down your rod and reel and take a hike!"
The commercial, which will run on a variety of stations throughout the city beginning tomorrow, to coincide with the BASS Masters Classic, encourages people to visit PETA's fish-friendly Web site, www.NoFishing.net, which expands on PETA's point that fish feel pain when impaled on a hook and begin to die slowly when ripped from the water.
As a child, Kelly fished with his family. He now realizes that fish have feelings, too. "Fishing is just as cruel as beating a puppy," says Kelly. "When those fish on your hook move their lips, they aren't whistling Dixie, they're trying desperately to keep on breathing. They know they are suffocating to death." Kelly hopes that fishers will toss their tackle, pitch their poles for good, and take up harmless outdoor activities like hiking, badminton, and lawn-bowling.
In 1999, Linda McCartney starred in PETA's first nationwide anti-fishing television commercial, declaring September 25 "National Fish Amnesty Day."
[b] Boycott PETA. Go fishing on September 25th.[/b]