Wackos.

Well OK but what he said about the Garden well fact is we are no longer there.. Do these activists realise we are not the only animal species eating other animals?? I gues they should go protests the lions and tigers eating Zebras and such..

Freaking world gone mad..

These wackos have been around a long time. I remember seeing protestors outside a supermarket where I worked part time as a teenager holding up signs stating that having live lobsters in a fish tank was cruel.

Plants are living organisms too. It's been proven that they can differentiate between different types of music. Maybe he should boycott anything coming from a plant too. Ripping that Tomato off the vine must be agony for that poor plant.

Having a young child actively involved your own little fantasy of "aren't I so virtuous" is just wrong. So wrong.

These folks don't know their Bibles. God does allow the eating of animal flesh and its all throughout the Old and New Testaments. However I suspect that it does not matter to these people and whatever organization they are aligned with. I suspect had the fish in been in a bucket when they walked up that they would still have started a fight regardless. The people harassing the two guys fishing seem to be trying to lazily throw scripture at them in an attempt to defend their ideology which happens to be completely unscriptural. Nephilim is right. We aren't in the garden any longer. Robbster is right on too. Plants are living organisms as well. Life is not free. There is sacrificed life to one degree or another where ever life exists. Since they attempted to use the Bible to attack a man fishing I have to speak up and say that they either are not what/whom they claim to be or they are misguided in a big way. Either way they are in error. How would they respond to Jesus Himself and His fishing buddies? I for one would, with great thanksgiving, eagerly sit by His side, be with and listen to Him all while eating our catch of the day. Wouldn't get much better than that for me.

I agree LB4LB. Very wrong to bring kids in on such a quarrel with an adult and stranger. That's not leading your children in the way they should go in my opinion. Jesus also has a harsh warning for those who would be a stumbling block when it comes to children.

Fifth level Vegans: Not eating anything that casts a shadow.

My $0.02, and a slight bit of playing devil's advocate here...

I love fish and I love to fish, however...

If I'm going to keep my catch, I'm either going to bring a stringer to keep them in water until I'm ready to leave or I'll throw them into an ice chest, assuming I don't want to get messy cutting it's head off while I'm still fishing. I assume none of these options would have really made the wackos happy, but maybe make them less confrontational. But I'd still do one of those options even if no one else was around, not that I think the fish really cares.

'What if this was a human child?'
Well, dumbass, that would mean I just saved it from drowning..

I think someone would have gone for a swim.

I kept thinking he was going to get pushed over the side of the bridge. He should be careful walking up on someone casting, he just might get snagged by a hook.

I'd have felt better if the title described "Activists approach fishermen and get their teeth knocked out".

What does a fish dying got to do with slavery and eating other people ??.And never known any one to hook dogs just ocean dog fish..Jesus gave fish to the people ..Glad those fools weren't there...I'm heading to McDonalds and getting a fish sandwich and big mac

If they want to be activists then they should choose something truly significant like ending the sex slave trade or the drafting of child soldiers. Instead they choose to get all bent out of shape over two guys fishing.

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and that poor bugger will be pestered by Activists"

They could put their energy to good use by trying to stop the abortion killing of human life instead. Their attitudes and methods though are still incorrect. They are in the wrong in so many ways.

I'd have just knelt down and put my knife through it's head. "There. No more suffering. I didn't want him to have to listen to you anymore."
If they were serious about it, they'd pull their front teeth and have molars implanted. That would show everyone they meant what they're saying!
I'm VERY impressed with how patient those guys were.

I just finished eating a big ol' piece of pan cooked catfish with salsa on top!

Too bad it wasn't The Nuge that was fishing, Uncle Ted would have gone nutso on that dude.

The one and only part I'd agree with is the bit about just letting the thing die like that. To me, if you're going to hunt or fish you take the animal out as quickly as can practically be done, and certainly NOT extend the dying process intentionally or by inaction. Want the fish alive as long as possible for freshness? Put it in a damn ice chest with water in it. Otherwise whack it and put it on ice.

I used to keep boas and pythons. People would often be shocked to see me taking large rats (I bred them, cheaper than sourcing rabbits), putting them into bags, and whacking them to death on the floor. First whack would almost always do it, but I learned to do 3 just to be sure, just to be humane to the rat. Far more humane than the snakes would be - AND this strategy also was safer for the snakes. I'd had snakes severely lacerated by rats when they didn't get a perfect strike/constriction.

Believe me I got some "activist" moments though when people would see me "murdering" rats like that!

LMAO

Notice how the rights group used a child to open their ambush. Like that kid would have come up with that speech on his own.

Zamzow said, in better words, what I was trying to say (and I also loved his rat story). I don't disagree with what's being said on this thread, but letting a fish flop around on pavement until it dies kinda rubs me the wrong way. A quick whack or stab to the head would be more humane and less cringe worthy. I can still picture my aunt whacking catfish (any that survived the trip home being iced down in an ice chest) in the head with a mallet before skinning them on a tree nail in their backyard. If the fisherman would have just tossed it on ice, I think the situation might not have escalated to such a confrontation, not that *any* harassment was justified.

Like I said before, I find it disgusting when people use children in their "activism". What a horrible idea having a child right there as you decide to get in somebody's face. What if a fight break's out? What if you piss off the wrong guy and he pulls out a gun? This shows this guy has no concern for the safety of that child. But hey, he saved a fish. Lunacy, pure lunacy.

He says he saved a fish, I'm pretty sure the fish will not last even after being thrown 15 feet into the water. lol

Yeah, it was probably out of water for too long, needs to be resuscitated until it swims away from your hand. That fish became a floater.

Dead AND wasted.
They don't really care though, they just want to give people a hard time in public.
Otherwise, why stake out individual fishermen when you could go to fish farms? No one to see them there.

Those guys had a right to fish and if within the rules of that body of water and state laws, to keep their catch. However they want. If those activists are going to ignore laws and a person's right, then those guys had just as much right to beat the ever loving crap out of them.
The whole thing was a set up though, they had a bunch of people there and those guys just happened to be the victims. It was all staged to go down, starting out with using that kid.

Reminds me that I need to get a new freshwater license, I might do lifetime if it's not too expensive.

If it was me I think one of those 'activists' my have accidentally ended up in the water and needed fishing out of the water.

Being realistic, and assuming you felt you could overtake the guy(s) verbally harassing you...is it worth a possible assault charge? Let the police handle it.

Is it assault if they accidentally get hooked in the face during a cast?

That would be for a judge to decide after watching the video. In this case, the video works against the harassers (whether they realize it or not), although I doubt anything became of it. Hopefully the dudes that were fishing were made aware of it on YT (I would think they know) and can use it as evidence if it becomes a reoccurring problem, or happens to someone else.

I love it when idiots post videos of themselves being stupid and/or unlawful.