The nobility of fishing for salmon

[Float_On]

Sure, chinooks and cohos only enter the streams once, giving them only one chance to spawn. But that works both ways, it also only gives one chance to catch them while running. Steelhead and browns can spawn multiple times, but that also gives anglers multiple opportunities to catch them. It works both ways.

My title isn't "salmon fishing is noble". My title says, "the nobility of salmon fishing", the "the" referring to the fact that they're taking their lasts breaths so if you do harm one, it's going to give out soon anyhow. If my use of hyperbole in the title wasn't obvious, it is now

Im not so sure you know what you were trying to get across anymore... :-?

Are you saying that its more noble to fish after they have spawned?

Its noble to die for your country, not sure if its noble to catch an old black fuzzy coho?

 

[salmotrutta]

Im not so sure you know what you were trying to get across anymore... :-?

Are you saying that its more noble to fish after they have spawned?

Its noble to die for your country, not sure if its noble to catch an old black fuzzy coho?

I feel remorse when I release a fish that has clearly been injured. If I lose a fish, and the hook or lure stays on the fish, I also get remorseful. Fish can live for years and sometimes decades.

With a salmon that's about to die, if I lose a hook or lure to the salmon, the remorse factor goes way down, because I know that it's going to expire soon anyhow. Less suffering for the fish due to the maximum potential amount of time left in its life.

A very minute point. I probably should have kept it to myself. Wasn't great internet fodder.

I'm not sure it's noble to die for anything. I'm not even sure nobility exists. Now we're getting philosophical.