When I was a kid we fished a stream for horned daces, a small minnow like fish.
Later we had a pond with bass, and I fished that. Even made my own lures.
Eventually I stopped because of the cruelty.
My (upstate NY) grandfather used to fish for trout. I've seen trout in the local SoCal creek, which amazed me. (A few metres from the stream, it was standard semi-arid chapparal.)
I like to eat trout.
My favorite fish is salmon, and I've learned to salt it, to make gravlox. Never caught one though.
I like oily fish, including mackerel, and find bland fish completely boring.
I've caught an ocean mackeral once.
I let the kid catch trout in the mountains in a captive (ie lame) trout pond. We took em home, dissected them, and ate them. This was good, albeit an extremely fake fishing experience. (Time to catch: about 30sec per fish) I had to discretely kill the landed fish so as not to traumatize the kid.
I continue to worry about cruelty, preferring to behead lobsters, crabs, etc cleanly. I only hope I will die similarly painlessly & quickly. I've attended
a pig vivisection, the pig was anesthetized and never woke up. That is perhaps more moral than simply eating them (it was for medicine) but I love bacon and eat pork freely. I've also petted a friends pet pigs. Its a coherent philosophy/morality for me. Way back when, I saw terminal heart surgery on a dog, which is weird: its a dog, ie a "pet", and its surgery (with drapes etc), and the ribs looked good enough to eat, if wrapped in plastic at a grocery.
