Haven't been on lately...

...I'm sure I'm not really adding anything that hasn't already been rehashed to death, but I can't let it go.
Can't we put the nail in the coffin on a few items of "debate" (or de-bait)?


Beavis & Butthead Universal rules of Angling:

Steelhead are like, um, big rainbow trout (wasn't that from 4th grade science class?).

Killing little fish is...uhh... bad; you get fewer big fish that way!

The bigger your hook is and the more points it has the more damage it will do to, um, a part of a fish it like, runs into.

Lures, like, catch more,uh..., "little fish" than bait sometimes because some guys use little pointy things with three prongs on them instead of one.

If you put like, smelly stuff on your hook that the fish like to eat they will, like, swallow it sometimes.

If you want to be able to like, let the fish live longer when you catch it, don't use that smelly stuff they eat or any more than one of those little pointy things. And umm, make sure you don't have those other things by the point that make the fish, like, stick to the pointy thing.


Seriously, when people stop looking at common sense to justify what they are doing we're all in trouble. By the simple act of fishing, none of us is benign factor in the lives of fish.The only way we could be is to literally "de-hook" our lures. A hundred years ago you could use pitchforks and dynamite on 'em and no one would care; why is impossible to see that in the near future we may have to make the simple changes of going to single, barbless artificials if it will help save fish? And of course it will!


GS