Here's something else... So your shore fishing and you hook a toad a lot like the fish that FishnPhysician is holding in his avatar image.

You play the fish for 25-40 minutes from run to run at times. As the fish becomes tired you drag him up onto the watery shoreline but being such a big fish he's thrashing everywhere, as he knows he's been beat. Then you tussle around trying to get your favorite offering out of his mouth, digging for pliers while still trying to hold the fish down doing the best you can so he won't get away.

You've landed a beast and now it's time to dig a little further for the camera as the sand and gravel he's thrashing in is pluming out his gills.. YOU BEGIN TO FEEL A BIT SORRY FOR THE FISH AS YOU CAN'T SEE HIS HEAD ANY LONGER DO TO THE SAND and smuck plumes. So you lift him out of the water and there you've done it. You've broke the ultimately stupid law of all.

You still need to snap them photos and then revive the fish. Most would say "oh no, I'd never drag a fish up into the shallows I don't want to harm the fish... But realisticly it would probably be best if you hung your gear up and did no damage at all. Perhaps that's what some of us should do.

A fish out of the water for 15-30 seconds doesn't have anymore of a impact than the story I told... I wish people would wake up and realize the direction they are taking this.

Mark my word it won't be 10 years and we will only be able to stand along the shorelines of these native only rivers and tell stories of the past, how fun it was back when you could actually make a cast and fish these waters.

You'll have to be proud to tell your kids someday, I supported many of the stupid laws that led to fishing closures and that's why you can't fish.
Keith