FishingBanter - View Single Post - On track for a 2020 ban on sportsfishing?

**William Claspy** · August 2nd, 2006, 02:02 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly

On 8/1/06 7:50 PM, in article , "JR"
wrote:

William Claspy wrote:

(I've snipped liberally for brevity's sake)

Occasionally I can go on a bit. :-)

When we meet eventually, you'll wonder if I'm the same guy. In person I
tend to be, er, on the quiet side. There have probably been clave attendees
who didn't even know I as AT the clave! But wind me up, ask me the right
(wrong?) question and look out! Wolfgang once asked me about how librarians
decide which books to remove from their collections. How long did that
conversation go on, Wolfgang? :-)

I meant to respond to this in detail but have exhausted myself in
replying to others. I fish in part because I've done it since early
childhood, in part to take an active part in the doings of the natural
world, in part for food, in part (I admit it) because it *is* fun. I
release many many more fish than I keep. (See my reply to jeff about
being a hypocrite.) Ah, the humanity..... g

I appreciate your replies to all of the posts. I think we agree on a whole
lot and I like the thought that you've obviously put into your ethos. And
your recognition of hypocrisy. :-) Part of my going on (and on) is because
I'm trying to distill, refine, hone these very arguments, and others,
because of similar discussions on the home front- daughter #1 has serious
ethical reservations about this past-time of ours. So think of yourselves
as a bunch of 12 year old girls.

:-)

Bill