Larry L wrote:

and I can't take anybody in a Hummer seriously, period, I always just want
to giggle at them ... (unless it's a real military HumVee on real military
business )

Around here (Idaho at the moment), Hummer drivers are called "Ketchum
action figures." In California bright colored Hummers are nearly a job
requirement for high priced real estate agents. Or maybe that was last
year. I'm out of touch.

I actually DO like the fact that people come here to fly fish, the local
river is "special regs" 0 limit, barbless, etc etc The regs, not the
quality of the fishing is the attraction ( special regs = crowds of FFers,
whether or not the fishery is decent ) ... but it's nice to have places
people can go and get away from the Bay Area ... and usually I only go to
the river to walk, ( or I float it away from normal accesses ) so they
don't really bother me

Does the Stanislaus have any "trash" fish (like squawfish or shad or
whitefish, for example -- no offense to those underappreciated species
intended) that you can catch and kill in front of an appalled,
Land-Rover-driving, C&R Orvis dude?

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