Eddie,

Sure it is dishonest. The primary reason is that you most likely show concern for only what you see. As a fisherman you should know what cost the tools you use have on the very thing you seek to protect. Lets take evidence from your avatar. Graphite for your poles comes from strip mines so does the silica for your fiberglass boat. The resins are petro chemicals. How many trees where lost to build the plants where they where made. What kind of waste water treatment do they use of plant discharge? How many people work at the plants? how do the people involved get to work build their homes? and all that electricity to run the whole mess? all the oil to fuel the whole thing. If you did an economic analysis of the cost benefit of the environmental resources used vs the value of the output to society I think you would be hard pressed to defend it. You get the picture. The world would be a better place environmentally with out all of that but it is nessesary for you to be happy. So is it needs or wants that allow you to justify a large impact on the environemnt for FUN? But you do not see that when you pick up the pole and fire up the boat. All the homes, people and industry is someone elses doing not yours. We just scratched the surface of the hypocrisy and the dishonesty.