"Sport hunters condemned commercial hunting, but reserved their own right to blast away at anything that moved."
fishing
Paul Schullery Comments on the General’s Fishing Tackle
"No doubt [Strong's] relatively light tackle, which included a silkworm gut leader that may not have been strong enough to horse a big fish in heavy water, had an effect on his handling of this fish.
A Tale: “The Rod Bent Nearly Double,” General W. E. Strong — 1875
"I pressed my thumb firmly upon it and drew gently back the rod. At the same instant something struck my hook that nearly carried me off my feet."
A Tale: Cooking Fish on the Hook in a Hot Spring
Here's one of few descriptions of an angler actually catching a fish and cooking it in a hot spring without removing it from the hook.
M. Mark Miller, Author 