On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 05:40:46 -0500, George Cleveland
wrote:

Over at the message board at the Wisconsin Fly Fishing Page
(wisflyfishing.com) there has been a somewhat acrimonious debate
concerning the planned fly fishing (as opposed to fly casting) contest
that is going to be held on one of the spring creek near Madison in
conjunction with ESPN's Great Outdoor Games. The board is divided into
several camps. One says that this is a great thing. That it will
increase awareness of fly fishing, add to the local tourism coffers
and expose Wisconsin's great fishing to the world. Another camp says
this is a terrible thing. They say that this will reduce fly fishing
to the status of bass tounaments, that little or none of the money
generated will actually benefit the cold water fishery and that it
will expose Wisconsin's great fishery to the world. My own take on it
is that it will probably be considered a minor event by most viewers,
who will be watching what appears to be from the published schedule
hours and hours of log rolling. My question to this group, seeing that
the level of acrimony has been sinking to dangerous levels, is what do
you think of fly fishing contests, ESPN's in particular and the whole
genre in general?

You didn't mention the thing that ****ed me off about some of the
posters on the WFFB. Some of them were suggesting using tactics to
stop it that they'd vilify PETA for trying on them.

I'm reading enough fights here that I didn't want to read any more
over there. I think it's going to be a tempura in a teapot
(intentional malaprop, indicating even smaller size). Doofy to go
one way or another on. It'll happen, it'll be over, and you'll have
maybe a few more fly fishers and several more spin fishers trying the
river. If they don't catch anything wonderful, they'll go away.
--

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Often taunted by trout.
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