I don't fish, never have. I wasn't raised to it and never got started.

I think you'll be quite disappointed in your notion that anyone who objects to fires will automatically object to fishing. I'm fine with fisher-folk, provided only that, if they clean their catch, they do so in a proper LNT manner and don't leave guts and fish heads where they don't belong. Catch and release presents no problems of this sort at all.

Come to think of it, my only objections to fires have to do with improper or boneheaded practices, too. Like chopping doewn green trees or scarring alpine meadows with fire rings. So, I guess there are a few similarities bewteen objecting to fires and to fishing after all. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

P.S. Kill as many fish as your license permits and I won't holler or weep crocodile tears over the poor dead fish -- as long as they don't go to waste. Really, it all comes down to respecting the wild and knowing the rules.