In an effort to get kids afraid to catch fish, PETA is now calling fish "sea kittens".

"You wouldn't put a hook in the mouth of a kitten, would you," says the rhetoric on PETA's website. They want kids to imagine their pet kitten or dog being drug around with a hook in their mouth. It's all part of PETA's "Stop Fishing" campaign.

Kids in Alaska where the publicity effort is underway generally say - fish are not kittens. Fish are our livelihood.

Looks to me like PETA took on the wrong crowd in Alaska!

I got a forum post this week regarding fishing and fish pain. I thought I would offer up this article to all of you. The debate goes on, often quite heated, regarding fish and pain...

There are two times each month that I dread fishing. Today was one of them. You heard it right - I dreaded going today because I already knew what would happen. You see today and the next two days are the absolute full of the moon.

A cold front just went through yesterday and the sky was bluebird high behind the front. The wind was knocking along about 20 knots out of the northwest; the air temperature was about 40 degrees;and, the water temperature was about 50.

I should have stayed in bed!

The tidal current was so strong because of the full moon, that the crab trap floats looked like the movie Jaws where those barrels were being pulled under by the shark - water gushing around them and the current pulling them just under the surface. it was rippin'!

I did manage a few pictures for a future magazine article, and I did wring out a pesky live well problem I've been having. But, overall, it was a very cold boat ride. Good thing there were no paying customers! I believe the word would be, "skunked"!

Whatever your political persuasion, this article may mean we have a friend in the White House - who knows - maybe we can get funded in all states!