Smalma,

Please note that the very first post in this thread was meant to do one thing…
Bash Bush!

It is a political thread initiated in an attempt to divide us politically and move us towards the left. This thread is typical of the attitude of those selfish and outspoken few who wish to impose their own ethics and fishing practices upon the entire angling community and who religiously persecute anyone who does not willingly conform.

It is the united efforts of organizations like Washington Trout, American Rivers, the Audubon Society, the Native Fish Society, the Wild Steelhead Coalition, the Federation of Fly Fishers, Trout Unlimited and others who use (or more precisely misuse) conservation and the environment as an excuse to reduce fishing opportunity and diversity amongst anglers that divides us as a community.

These folks who put the mission before fishin' will continuously attack, bash and redefine everything in their path until their selfish greed for ownership of the resource is quenched. Fishermen and fishing women as a group will never be united so long as so-called fishing groups promote their political and personal issues and seek allocation of the entire resource for themselves to be used in their way only.

Only through groups who promote all fishing styles and work to further fishing opportunities and issues that appeal to all anglers will any semblance of unity be achieved.