Family-Outdoors wrote:
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Hell, when my wife dragged me to this state I didn't even know a trout
existed within its borders. Having lived my whole life up until now in
places where I never lived more than a mile from a great trout stream
(Yampa in Colorado and Tonsina, Gulkana, and Klutina in
Alaska...tributaries of the Copper), I have had to adjust my
standards. So I get ****y when people get righteous about what
qualifies as a "fish" or what good fishing is. As soon as I stopped
bitching about being here and started figuring out what opportunities
existed, it's been good.

If anyone here is guilty of righteous "fishism" it's you and Guy.
In elevating the trout, even flaccid, stupid, phony trout, to some
revered status you're dissing some really fine fly fishing right
in your own backyard.

I fish for trout because trout live in beautiful places. Trout
fishing for me is as much about the gorgeous places it takes me
as about the fish itself.

As for that "****y" thing you've got going, try Midol.

--
Ken Fortenberry