If you are on the beach and someone is fishing

[LastNightMyPJsSavedMyLife]

Please go around the back of them and don't allow your dog near their gear. If your dog gets a hook in it's mouth it's not the fisherman's fault it's yours.

@listsandbudgets

If you as a parent don't have the common sense to keep your child away from another persons belongings that is on you. Do you allow your child to rifle through someone's back pack? Is your child attracted to fishy smells like dogs are? If not then they are not at risk of any harm from me. I don't leave sharp objects lying around. They were stowed away.

Sigh. When are we banning this blood sport?

Don't fish on the beach, leave the poor fish be. Literally what gives you the right?

@Tiredofthewhirring

Sigh. You do you! Don't want to fish then don't. I do and so I will. To feed myself. Like many, many people around the world.

My apologies, you do appear to be a mumsnetter-woman-who-fishes. Good for you, it must be pretty amazing to eat something you've caught yourself. I just get fed up of the men who create accounts on here sometimes just to tell women off, and I've only ever seen men fishing I've always thought it's one of those many hobbies men seem to have loads of spare time to pursue whilst a woman cooks, cleans and deals with life admin for them. I will continue to keep my kids, dog and self out of the way of fishing lines and hooks 😁

That's acceptable.

What I simply can not understand are the people who catch fish just to put them back to be caught again. What is the mental thought process of someone who spends hours waiting to hurt something not so that they can put it out of it's misery and put it to good use but so that having hurt and traumatised it they put it in the position where it will probably happen t them again in a few hours... I mean WTAF is that about?

By the way you rightly asked if I'd let my small child play with someone elses property - answer no of course not neither would I let my dog - if you're keeping your hooks properly stashed away then good. However, I am sick to death of finding hooks and bits of line on beaches

Nobody's going to get eaten by a Tope or Common Spotted Dogfish, though.