Livebait bans are 'sentimental rubbish'

"It is sentimental rubbish to think that it is wrong to use live fish as bait to catch predatory fish."

So says Keith Arthur, in his column in Angling Times.

Here's a point we haven't seen before: "common sense tells you that deadbaiting - all those freezers full of roach, bream, perch etc - is certainly far more wasteful of fish life than catching half-a-dozen baits, using four then releasing the remainder."