On Jan 27, 1:32*pm, Larry L wrote:
On Jan 27, 8:12*am, "JT" wrote:

We float fished one day (cousin has a drift boat) and wade fished a couple
days. We found it easier to spot pods of rising fish while wade fishing and
worked the pods. *

I've only fished the Green once, probably close to 20 years ago. * *I
was in Jack Dennis' shop in Jackson and he suggested the place to me
as a 'recently discovered' great fishery. * It was actually a couple
years later that I got around to going down there.

I walked upstream from the camping area and soon found a few fish
rising to midges behind a rock and about 10 feet off the bank, river
left. * *I stepped into the water, got directly below them ( about 10
feet off the bank ) to easier use my right handed casting, and soon
landed one. * As I waited for the rest to settle back down I stood
still ( about 10
feet off the bank ) and even though a couple fish started to rise,
continued to rest the spot not moving ( about 10 feet off the
bank ).

It was summer and the river had a ton of drift boats on it ( 'zoo' is
too mild a word ) and along comes one with an obvious guide
( outfitter name on boat ... rower looking all 'guidey' ) and two
anglers, an apparent couple. * * The female angler, as they drifted by
the rock, cast to the rises a very few feet from me in a manner that
required ( I **** you not ) that I grab her line and lift it over my
head as it floated at me, to avoid getting tangled. * *As I did so,
she went into a string of filthy expletives that was astounding and
embarrassed even me. ( I trained dogs and speak 'expletive'
fluently ), about me ruining her fishing.

In case I forgot to mention it, I was about 10 feet off the bank and
the rest of the fairly large immediate river was unoccupied, with
rises obvious on the other bank, also. * She was tossing a bobber,
anyway.

The "guide" and the "male" angler just looked away .... away from
what, I believe, was the single worst example of terrible 'etiquette'
I, personally have ever witnessed while fishing. * *This was the
moment when "guide" became a somewhat dirty word to me. * Had I been
the guy, I would have beached the boat and beached the bitch with the
advice that she never, ever, return or seek my services again, and
would have considered it a professional obligation to do so.

I firmly believe guides need to see themselves as educators and also
understand that their subject matter includes more than just catching
fish, it also includes doing so in a sporting way, with respect for
the resource and for other anglers
*.... some do
*.... many don't ( best I can tell from years of observation )

sigh!

What do you think it is about us paragons of virtue, polity, civility,
moral rectitude, refined manners, ethical purity, intellectual
superiority, educational achievement, social correctness, abject (if
not to say ludicrous) humility, humane generosity, exquisitely tuned
empathy, and dynamic (tempered by sagacity) humanity that causes
literally ALL of those with whom we happen to cross paths (through no
fault of our own.....obviously) to be boorish, insensitive, grasping,
selfish, insensitive, rude, loud, garish, ugly, stupid, ignorant,
nasty, inhuman, pitiful and, almost certainly, liberal.....or
conservative.....or both?

That's what I wanna know.

sigh!

giles
who ya not gonna hate.....?