I need help.

On Apr 21, 8:36 pm, tim wrote:
Thank you for the help. I will stick with it and go with your
suggestions.

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The thing that I hate is I see bait guys with a stringer full of fish

2nd year of fishing and you're already dissing 10,000 years of angling
for subsistence? Where did you learn this crap?

I would, respectfully, suggest golf.

Your pal,

Halfordian Golfer

Halfordian Golfer wrote:

On Apr 21, 8:36 pm, tim wrote:

The thing that I hate is I see bait guys with a stringer full of fish

2nd year of fishing and you're already dissing 10,000 years of angling
for subsistence? Where did you learn this crap?

So when was the last time you fished "for subsistence"?

I would, respectfully, suggest golf.

I'm thinking you should take your own advice. I don't see how you
can stand the guilt.


Chuck Vance (a water hazard runs through it)

"Conan The Librarian" wrote in message
...
Halfordian Golfer wrote:

On Apr 21, 8:36 pm, tim wrote:

The thing that I hate is I see bait guys with a stringer full of fish

2nd year of fishing and you're already dissing 10,000 years of angling
for subsistence? Where did you learn this crap?

So when was the last time you fished "for subsistence"?

I would, respectfully, suggest golf.

I'm thinking you should take your own advice. I don't see how you can
stand the guilt.

He can't. That may be what tipped him over the edge. On the other hand,
craziness builds upon itself; it's a classic positive feedback loop. At the
end of the day, where and when it started is moot.

Chuck Vance (a water hazard runs through it)

Ah, if only there was enough water!

Wolfgang

Wolfgang wrote:

"Conan The Librarian" wrote in message
...

I'm thinking you should take your own advice. I don't see how you can
stand the guilt.

He can't. That may be what tipped him over the edge. On the other hand,
craziness builds upon itself; it's a classic positive feedback loop. At the
end of the day, where and when it started is moot.

Chuck Vance (a water hazard runs through it)


Ah, if only there was enough water!

Well, first you build this humongous pipeline ...


Chuck Vance

"Conan The Librarian" wrote in message
...
Wolfgang wrote:

"Conan The Librarian" wrote in message
...

I'm thinking you should take your own advice. I don't see how you can
stand the guilt.
He can't. That may be what tipped him over the edge. On the other
hand, craziness builds upon itself; it's a classic positive feedback
loop. At the end of the day, where and when it started is moot.

Chuck Vance (a water hazard runs through it)


Ah, if only there was enough water!

Well, first you build this humongous pipeline ...

And then you attach it to an enormous vacuum generator. Hm......where we
gonna get one of those? Anything come to mind, timmie?

Wolfgang
get it? vacuum? COME TO MIND.......timmie? )

On Apr 22, 8:31 am, Conan The Librarian wrote:
Halfordian Golfer wrote:
On Apr 21, 8:36 pm, tim wrote:

The thing that I hate is I see bait guys with a stringer full of fish

2nd year of fishing and you're already dissing 10,000 years of angling
for subsistence? Where did you learn this crap?

So when was the last time you fished "for subsistence"?

I would, respectfully, suggest golf.

I'm thinking you should take your own advice. I don't see how you
can stand the guilt.

Chuck Vance (a water hazard runs through it)

Dude starts fishing, hasn't even caught a fish, and is already
bitching about people that are catching and keeping fish legally. My
question "where did you learn this crap?" is not rhetorical. What a
blessed relief to be in Florida this week. Not a Catch and Release
zealot in site. Just real fishermen catching fish. Noticed the head
lamp on the beach late last night so, taking a risk I went over to
chat with the inveterate night anglers who was hooking a baitfish on a
10' surf rod. Nicest guy and gal in the world. Yet our new found
angling friend "hates to see these people".

Who is teaching these people this tripe, especially newcomers?
Wolfgang and his ilk? Man I hope not.

Dude wants a real fishing education I suggest he digs up some
nightcrawlers and kill, clean and cook whatever he catches. Let's
start he

1) Angling has a rich and long tradition. It is, literally, hunting
for fish. Only in the last 20-30 years has angling taken on purely
sporting ramifications. In the days before angling became wet-golf
fishing for biological golf balls, anyone who fished was considered a
brother of the angle. We'd say: "Guy fishes, must be a good guy". We
respected the sport and especially the wild animal we were killing in
our pursuit. We understood what wild meant (ask LaCourse, he just got
a refresher) and we would go out of our way to hike around a brother
who was fishing in a spot as to not ruin his fishing. Fishing in the
last 30 years has degraded in to a competitive pursuit, the very last
thing we needed it to become. It's big business and the object of the
business is the fish. The people that are teaching our friend to hate
people who kill fish are the ones who are using the public resources
to earn a private living.

Seriously: Grasshopper - catch a grasshopper and than catch a fish,
come back and we will talk.

That's my earnest advice.


Your pal,

TBone

"Halfordian Golfer" wrote in message
...
On Apr 22, 8:31 am, Conan The Librarian wrote:
Halfordian Golfer wrote:
On Apr 21, 8:36 pm, tim wrote:

The thing that I hate is I see bait guys with a stringer full of fish

2nd year of fishing and you're already dissing 10,000 years of angling
for subsistence? Where did you learn this crap?

So when was the last time you fished "for subsistence"?

I would, respectfully, suggest golf.

I'm thinking you should take your own advice. I don't see how you
can stand the guilt.

Chuck Vance (a water hazard runs through it)

Dude starts fishing, hasn't even caught a fish, and is already
bitching about people that are catching and keeping fish legally.

And how did you learn that these fish were kept legally?

My question "where did you learn this crap?" is not rhetorical.

Nor does it show any signs of being rational or useful as anything other
than yet another doomed attempt to justify a position which you try
desperately to convince yourself is righteous.

What a blessed relief to be in Florida this week. Not a Catch and Release
zealot in site.

Zealot? You DARE to use this word to describe someone else? You are SO
sick!

Just real fishermen catching fish.

And you think it's a sign of a healthy mind to unceasingly harangue and
abuse fishermen you believe arent' even real? You are SO sick!

Noticed the head
lamp on the beach late last night so, taking a risk I went over to
chat with the inveterate night anglers who was hooking a baitfish on a
10' surf rod. Nicest guy and gal in the world.

Maybe. On the other hand, it's possible that there are a few you haven't
met yet.

Yet our new found
angling friend "hates to see these people".

I seem to have missed the part where he met those folks. Did he say exactly
where and when? Did he mention how he recognized them and determined that
they weren't someone else?

Who is teaching these people this tripe, especially newcomers?
Wolfgang and his ilk? Man I hope not.

Your wish is granted. I've never perceived a need to teach the general
public what they already know to be true......nor what they already know to
be false. As for my ilk, well, I gave up carrying that around a long time
ago.....wasn't doing me any good at all. You're welcome to it. Probably do
you a lot more good than the monkey on your back and the voices
reverberating through that vacant hall at the top of your neck.

Dude wants a real fishing education I suggest he digs up some
nightcrawlers and kill, clean and cook whatever he catches.

Well, that would certainly be a lot faster than using them for fishing.
High in protein too, I hear.

Let's start he

O.k., let's.

1) Angling has a rich and long tradition.

Stipulated. I've never encountered anyone who has argued against this
proposition. You could have started somewhere else. Would have saved time.

It is, literally, hunting for fish.

Really? You're not kidding us?

Only in the last 20-30 years has angling taken on purely
sporting ramifications.

Wtong. It never has. There are people out there who kill fish. You hadn't
heard? Are we surprised?

In the days before angling became wet-golf
fishing for biological golf balls, anyone who fished was considered a
brother of the angle. We'd say: "Guy fishes, must be a good guy". We
respected the sport and especially the wild animal we were killing in
our pursuit. We understood what wild meant (ask LaCourse, he just got
a refresher) and we would go out of our way to hike around a brother
who was fishing in a spot as to not ruin his fishing. Fishing in the
last 30 years has degraded in to a competitive pursuit, the very last
thing we needed it to become. It's big business and the object of the
business is the fish. The people that are teaching our friend to hate
people who kill fish are the ones who are using the public resources
to earn a private living.

All joking aside, you are a seriously disturbed and confused moron.

Seriously: Grasshopper - catch a grasshopper and than catch a fish,
come back and we will talk.

That's my earnest advice.

Seek professional help. Seriously.

Wolfgang

Halfordian Golfer wrote:

On Apr 22, 8:31 am, Conan The Librarian wrote:

Halfordian Golfer wrote:

On Apr 21, 8:36 pm, tim wrote:

The thing that I hate is I see bait guys with a stringer full of fish

2nd year of fishing and you're already dissing 10,000 years of angling
for subsistence? Where did you learn this crap?

So when was the last time you fished "for subsistence"?


I would, respectfully, suggest golf.

I'm thinking you should take your own advice. I don't see how you
can stand the guilt.

Chuck Vance (a water hazard runs through it)


Dude starts fishing, hasn't even caught a fish, and is already
bitching about people that are catching and keeping fish legally.

First of all, how do you know they caught and kept them *legally*?

Secondly, I took his comments to mean, "Damn, they were catching
them on bait but I can't get a hit on flies. I hate that."

Of course, given your obession, I can see how you read his comments
as hatred of the first degree. Eye of the beholder, projection, and all
that.

[snippety doo dah day]

1) Angling has a rich and long tradition. It is, literally, hunting
for fish. Only in the last 20-30 years has angling taken on purely
sporting ramifications.

Yeah, I know what you mean. How I long for the days when you could
keep stringers of 50-60 fish ("for subsistence") without guilt.

In the days before angling became wet-golf
fishing for biological golf balls, anyone who fished was considered a
brother of the angle. We'd say: "Guy fishes, must be a good guy". We
respected the sport and especially the wild animal we were killing in
our pursuit. We understood what wild meant (ask LaCourse, he just got
a refresher) and we would go out of our way to hike around a brother
who was fishing in a spot as to not ruin his fishing. Fishing in the
last 30 years has degraded in to a competitive pursuit, the very last
thing we needed it to become.

And you don't think the guys we see in pictures showing off their
stringers of fish were competitive?

Setting aside your pathological guilt complex for the moment, your
whole "argument" reads like little more than "back in the good ole days,
men were men blah, blah, blah" with a slightly different twist.

What I find so odd is that the majority of the folks reading this
*do* care and respect the fish they pursue. And they do not do it
competitively. Yet you feel compelled to broad brush everyone who
practices C'n'R as some sort of Johnny Come Lately Orvis pimp.

It says more about you than anyone you're ostensibly targeting with
your comments.

Seriously: Grasshopper - catch a grasshopper and than catch a fish,
come back and we will talk.

Seriously, I ask you again: When was the last time you fished for
subsistence?


Chuck Vance

On 2008-04-22, Conan The Librarian wrote:

Seriously, I ask you again: When was the last time you fished for
subsistence?

I'd starve to death.

OTOH, it's the only reason I fish. Screw a buncha catch and release. If I
catch a legal fish, I'm gonna eat it. I don't quite understand the romantic
notion of fishing. What? A 200lb man with $500 worth of hardware lands a
2lb fish. Big whoop. To some, I guess. If that's their thing, so be it.

I have nothing against CnR. If most folks didn't do it, I have no doubt
most streams would be fished out in no time. I've seen it happen. Last time
I went fishing, at a popular camping destination that was once remote and
rarely crowded, the fishermen were shoulder to shoulder. Now, with RV
parking, reservations, etc, the place is so crowded the fish have to be
restocked ever morning. I caught my two fish (6 limit) in about 3 mins and
left. It was depressing.

Recently, I stopped a local fishing guide who was returning from scouting
the river below my place. We talked a bit, me asking if the fish were
biting, etc. I happened to mention my taking up fly fishing so I could
catch a few trout to eat. She got all serious and somewhat indignant that
anyone would actually keep a fish and not release it and went into a long
diatribe about how the fish were not infinite, yada yada. I said I'd heard
this river was loaded with fish and the fishing pressure was light. She
said that was the case a couple years ago. Now, fishing pressure was heavy
and CnR was the only solution. I didn't say anything, but thought it rather
funny and a bit hipocritical, as her boss, who owns three fishing shops, is
out stumping up and down the front range at TU seminars to get people to
drive hundreds of miles to this river so she can charge $300 day to guide
them. Fishing pressure, indeed.

So far, the fish, here, have nothing to fear from me.

nb

"notbob" wrote in message
.. .
On 2008-04-22, Conan The Librarian wrote:

Seriously, I ask you again: When was the last time you fished for
subsistence?

I'd starve to death.

OTOH, it's the only reason I fish. Screw a buncha catch and release. If
I
catch a legal fish, I'm gonna eat it. I don't quite understand the
romantic
notion of fishing. What? A 200lb man with $500 worth of hardware lands a
2lb fish. Big whoop. To some, I guess. If that's their thing, so be it.

I have nothing against CnR. If most folks didn't do it, I have no doubt
most streams would be fished out in no time. I've seen it happen. Last
time
I went fishing, at a popular camping destination that was once remote and
rarely crowded, the fishermen were shoulder to shoulder. Now, with RV
parking, reservations, etc, the place is so crowded the fish have to be
restocked ever morning. I caught my two fish (6 limit) in about 3 mins
and
left. It was depressing.

Recently, I stopped a local fishing guide who was returning from scouting
the river below my place. We talked a bit, me asking if the fish were
biting, etc. I happened to mention my taking up fly fishing so I could
catch a few trout to eat. She got all serious and somewhat indignant that
anyone would actually keep a fish and not release it and went into a long
diatribe about how the fish were not infinite, yada yada. I said I'd
heard
this river was loaded with fish and the fishing pressure was light. She
said that was the case a couple years ago. Now, fishing pressure was
heavy
and CnR was the only solution. I didn't say anything, but thought it
rather
funny and a bit hipocritical, as her boss, who owns three fishing shops,
is
out stumping up and down the front range at TU seminars to get people to
drive hundreds of miles to this river so she can charge $300 day to guide
them. Fishing pressure, indeed.

From our "Fresh Point of View on a Hot New Topic" desk.

So far, the fish, here, have nothing to fear from me.

Nor philosophers.

Wolfgang