Well, Germans are very
categorical people. If you ask one on the street, 99% will say its ok to go fishing and catch one´s own food, but at the same time the idea of torturing fish "just for the fun of it" is generally being frowned upon. In my state, there´s a lot of large bodies of water, not too many anglers and C&R has never been much of an issue. It allows me to release as many fish as I wnat to as long as I have a general interest in harvesting a fish here and there (or cannot be proven other
), which I am very happy about.
In other, inland states with a much higher concentration of anglers, C&R is of course necessary to keep an attractive fishing running. That again has triggered authorities to follow most citizens will forbidding such "excessive" angling, splitting the angling nation into the fishing club´s widespread anticipatory obedience forbidding any release while only categorical C&R is against state rule on the one side and many C&R practintioners who go underground and develop a very snobby own ethic on the other. It´s an unexpiring source of dispute, filling endless board threads.
Migrating browns are notorious tailbiters so I fixed myself some inline ultra minnows with a size 4 octopus sickle loop. Spectacular fight on light tackle. 
