Warren wrote:

wrote...


I was reading a magazine the other day and saw an article about
redband rainbows. The article was in the Flyfishing & Tying
Journal's Winter 2004 edition. The article was entitled "Air, Earth,
Fire and Water" and was written by some ****bag named Tom Alkire. My
favorite quote is "I measured the water temperature at 78 degrees,
warm even for redbands. It was no wonder there weren't any fish in
the main stem as it was warmer still. I put on a size-18 sparkle
white Serendipity and began floating it in the film in the shaded
areas, little slots under overhanging bushes, safe harbors from the
heat and predators."

This type of reasoning is very disturbing to me. It is very similar
to "The Henry's Fork is on its way downhill and is not nearly the
fishery it once was. But I still fish it because my impact doesn't
matter. It is everyone else's fault or the fault of something else.
My meager contributions don't amount to a hill of beans so I can just
keep doing what I used to do. I'll ignore the fact that if everyone
else thinks the same way I do, we will all be ****ed in the end." I
bet you complained about how crowded it was compared to how it used
to be too......

I agree with your well stated position, but I don't know if you should
be laying it on Larry. The way I see it, is that he cares about the
resource because he has seen it and experienced it at its best and
because of that, wants to see it that way again. Nothing wrong with that
IMO.

Willi