So, if you are trying to catch either a salt-water or freshwater shark, does it matter which breed of bait you use? I just don't know which would be best choice ...

Brigitte Bardot, the 1950s and 1960s film star turned animal rights campaigner, has called on the French government to halt the reported use by fishermen on the island of Reunion of live puppies and kittens as shark bait.

"It is imperative that the government does something to end this practice," she said in a letter to the minister for French overseas territories, Francois Baroin, a copy of which was given to AFP Thursday.

According to Clicanoo, a newspaper in Reunion, a French island located in the Indian Ocean, a six-month-old puppy was found last month with hooks implanted in its snout and one of its legs.

The French Society for the Protection of Animals (SPA) told the daily the dog was the victim of cruel fishermen who attract sharks by throwing puppies or kittens into the water, tied to fishing lines, and wait for the predators to swallow the thrashing animals.

"We don't see that every day, but it's not the first time, either," Marie-Annick Chantrel, the vice-president of the Reunion branch of the SPA, told Clicanoo. "We've already seen cats six or seven months old with hooks in them."

Bardot told Baroin that "unfortunately these are not isolated incidents, and the people of Reunion are the first to be horrified by this despicable barbarity which mars the image of their island."

The campaigner, who runs an animal defence association, said she had written to authorities on the island to have them put a stop to the crime.

I would like to try that myself.

Johnch

Did the puppies belong to anyone, or did they pick them up from an animal shelter a day or two before they were going to be humanely euthanized and then tossed into an incinerator?

There are a lot of people out there breeding poor-quality dogs that just drag down the gene-lines, or not monitoring their animals whatsoever. Is it a better life for these animals that they grow up with heart or joint problems? And what other person is stepping up volunteering to take this puppy into their home and raise it as one of the family?

Or is it any better or worse than growing veal for food in a little box and force-feeding it every day?

Why is it just the "cute" animals that have to be protected? What about the katauba worms of the world used as catfish bait with hooks cruelly stabbed right through their bodies, then being tossed into ponds to drown or be torn apart alive by catfish?

OK so how about birman for sharkbait

Bardot is another one on the stupid liberal list.

I've heard of that practice around here too. It really doesn't work any better than many other live baits, like jackfish and such. So I've heard.

Fish are easier to get on a hook too, so I've heard.

Of course, there is no better use for the stupid punt puppies some people take with them to the pier for a nice relaxing evening fishing, now is there. Especially when the thing just yaps all night.

Well fellas, I'm back for a bit. Shows what a guy will do for a laugh huh?

I've never subsribed to the idea of crats and dorgs for shark bait. For one thing there are better things out there. As an example, in late summer on the east coast of the Windy State(as in TODAY), the stingrays glom onto the beaches for all manner of X-rated frivolity. The rain on their parade would come in the form of Tiger Sharks. A whole bunch of them. So anyway, take a seine, run the shallows and you have gazoogles of the finest shark bait on the planet. And NOBODY gives a crat's ass what you do to stingrays. Lip hooking a kitten on a public beach down here, no matter how altruistic your motive, will make you dream of a quick and merciful death.

It matters not that you might be saving one of the tree humpers lives by doing this. In fact, the other tree humpers will be glad to see humanity diminished by one. Another thing in passing, before I move on to other subjects...I'm pretty sure Bardot would make good shark bait. Tigers eat people alla time in Hawaii, and anyhoo, the tree humpers will approve. I think that little tart has dealt with a lot of sharks in the past though, so be careful.

Now if you catch a big shark, I don't know that it would hurt if you fed him before letting him go. Sorta like a reward if you get my meaning.


Dan

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I'm pretty sure Bardot would make good shark bait.

True, and it has been tried - it is nothing new in using silicon lures in big game fishing...

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Marterius