I turned vegetarian when I was 21 I but continued to fish and release using a flyrod, not regularly or even often but like once a year when I would visit my grandfather as there was a huge loch with wild brown trout not far from his house, I still remember the last time I was fishing, I was 25 and had hired a boat, all the fish I caught I put in the front storage compartment which I filled with water, my Grandfather had come down to pick me up at the end of the day, I moored the boat and then started showing him the fish I had caught. After I showed him I would release them back into the water, he looked confused every time I did it, he then asked me what am I doing? I said well I’m not going to eat them, am I?

It was after that I stopped fishing thinking about the pain and stress the fish must go through by getting hooked and pulled out of the water, I ended up giving all my fishing gear to my father, he has never used it, that was 25 years ago.

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