How much compasion does a shark have for a tuna? A lion have for an antelope? A spider have for a fly? It's nature's way and I don't give a frog fart what these bleedin heart pinkos think. Many of them go against nature in more ways than one and I will leave it at that.

( Just for the sake of argument , ok ? )

Lions usually suffocate their prey by crushing the windpipe and spiders use their venom . I don't figure it's from any sense of compassion but they do that to minimize the chance of being injured by their food.

I guess my point with the "lose a finger" comment was : why take a chance ? I have several Kevlar and chain-link gloves but it's a lot safer to process a dead animal .

Ever try to skin a live deer ?

Listen.....I agree with what you are saying. I would never torture or cause pain to anything for pleasure but the bottom line is that the predator vs prey saga is one that is utterly brutal and always has been since pre dinosaur days.

I have seen video of a wolf that kept a deer alive for days while steadily eating meat from its rump. It did this to keep the meat fresh over a longer feeding period. Should humans do this? Absolutely not but it just goes to show that nature isn't evil or good its just nature. We are part of that nature whether the pinkos think so or not. Of course as humans we have the natural responsibility to kill our prey in a more "humane" way but who is going to decide what that means? Pinkos? That's what upsets me is the mentality of these people who think that they can tell me how and when I obtain my meat. Growing up I skinned and filleted many of fish alive but as I grew older I gained more respect for my prey and now I bonk them on the head or just throw them in the box but no longer skin them alive. Either way its a fish with a brain the size of a BB.

HMMM.... I never thought of bonking my catfish on the head caveman style. I usually just start cutting and sometimes the catfish start flapping, but having them dead makes it much easier.

I wonder if they will start on us for the pain and torment they go through when we drive a hook into their mouths?

Just knock'm on the head first.
It is cruel.
But I did hear that the skin comes off easier when they are still alive. Not that it is any less cruel. It's just not necessary to make anything suffer unnecessarily.
Just my 2 pennies.

Rubbish. Thats like saying, let a deer shoot you with an arrow and you run a few hundred yards. That fish suffered for less tan 20 seconds. From the time he pulled the skin off to cutting off the head. You ever been crappie fishing and thrown the crappie in a bucket to suffocate. Its all relative. Thats all

Sorry guys but have got to agree about the needless pain. O.k they got brains the size of a pea , they only suffer for 20 seconds but still why do it alive if it only takes a couple more seconds to konk them on the head . Me personally I knock them on the head or cut their throat , is there a reason for skinning the alive , then maybe I could understand .

Videos like that are just ammo for the people who are out there lobbying legislators to reduce and limits our rights and access as hunters and fishermen. I personally don't care how you clean your fish. I cut the tail on mine so they bleed out and I put them straight into ice, because I think this provides me the freshest tastiest fish. I don't care how anybody else does it. To each their own. But for God sake don't let somebody film you doing something like this to be used against us all when our rights as sportsmen are on the line each year in states and nation congresses.

I have know,,why are you on such a site to find this? That site is horrible..

We need to go after the REAL culprits here... OTHER FISH. They have been eating other fish alive for millenia!

I won't lie, I have been skinning them alive for years. Not because I want to cause them pain, but because I find it easier to skin them. To be honest, I don't see the big deal about it. Catfish don't feel near as much pain as humans do if you really think about it. If a human falls down a dam 100 feet, we would need to see a doctor if we're not dead. A catfish can fall that 100 feet and just keep swimming. They obviously handle pain better than we do. I don't feel no sympathy.

Why even skin 'em? Just filet and go. Fish don't have eyelids and therefore, have no soul......

LOL.....
Squirrels have eyelids, and hands.

I like to kill them first-less blood in the meat.
Wish I could skin a catfish that well. That's why I filet.