On Oct 23, 1:26 pm, Dave LaCourse wrote:
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:23:44 -0000, Halfordian Golfer

wrote:
This kind of thinking is like feeling guilty about a wet dream. Give
me a freeking break man. It's sport when they're starving to survive
(and feeding during a hatch) but it's not sport when they're striking
defensively? You must drive yourself nuts.

Any fool, including you, can catch a spawning fish without even
trying. Put the lure in front of them and they will strike it. The
term "shooting fish in a barrel" was surely coined to describe fishing
the spawn. What's the matter, Tim, you can't catch fish the normal
way, ya gotta go after the spawners to feel macho? Jerk.

Dave

Calm down Dave. Next thing you know this place will be as
acrimonious as roff. Nobody's a jerk here, including you
me and Tim. Spawning fish can be easy to catch.
But like I pointed out earlier, I watched 3 guys (part of
a guided trip out of West Yellowstone) strip streamers over
those fish all day without a single hit.

I put on a little more weight, waited a little longer after the cast,
hand-twisted slowly, and knocked'em silly. After a few fish
(it was fun for an hour or so) I let them be.
They're over-populated there and they want you to konk'em.
So--at least in that sense--sport (or lack thereof) is irrelevant.
Fish'em if you want. Don't fish'em if you don't want.

I'm easy.