Addendum to Gone Fishing...Discards of the Day or Happy April 1st!

After every successful fishing expedition wherein you have amassed any number of unsuspecting fish who fell hook, line and sinker for your "nylon" line you must decide whether or not to "clean and fillet" or to discard. Online, there are less time restrictions..If you are a strong and honourable sportsman, you will allow the valuable catch to swim free and thus you will not be able to be linked to Macbeth as your hands will remain bloodless. Online, because there really is no defining expiry date you may take longer or sometimes too long before rejecting... When fishing, you can easily discard what you really don't want so that what remains is you, a true fisherman who will be rewarded by never NEEDING to go online because after all you still have the two or so fish that you have deemed to be "keepers". As for the non 'keeper' fish, after being dumped by the fishing pro, these 'discards' will continue to swim but it goes without saying that they will forever do so with more caution. Would that the nearly caught or already filleted onliners would be at least a tad more cautious as well. If you suspect that you are a habitual discarder in either discipline, you might consider shifting gears and considering celibacy and/or abstinence from any water sports that can be conducted solo or in groups especially where big nets are used.