"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"