The Salmonid Foundation.

“Who are they?”
- -If asked, would they tell the truth?

“Where do they get their money?”
--How could we ever know that?

“Do they have an agenda?”
--Yeah. They clearly have an agenda.

Tis’ a strange world in which we live, fisherfolk.

Recently a journalist in the White House Press Corp was revealed as being no journalist at all, rather a prostitute for the Bush Administration, planted in the Press Corp to lob soft balls at press conferences. The strangest quirk of all…. he also turned out to be a prostitute in the sexual sense, peddling hard balls on the internet, $200/hr or $1200/weekend.

The Forces of Darkness are spending gadzillions, directly and indirectly, on controlling the public discourse.

There was a time when one might reasonably assume that people on political boards were what they presented themselves to be. That is no longer the case. The Dark Side has paid agents whose day job is participating in online boards, sitting at the keyboard all day pretending…….spinning the party line. The person you think you are having a honest political discussion with may be an intellectual prostitute on the payroll of a right wing organization. Sad.

This board has been political of late.

This thread started with a link to the Salmonid Foundation, which appears, from their rather awkward website and mission statement, to be a front organization for the water nazis. They seem to be pretending to be about Steelhead and salmon, while what they may really be about is getting and/or keeping control of Snake River and Columbia River water.

Suddenly here are new people posting on the board, ( who seem to be supporting the Salmonid Foundation position?) , who may, let’s emphasize “may”, also be only pretending to be about fish.

Considering the way the world works now, it seems only responsible to ask about a possible agenda and where they are coming from. Maybe my intuition is totally off-base and these guys are just honest Steelheaders and salmon fishermen like the rest of us. If so, I’m sorry for questioning their creds and I apologize for my cynicism and insensitivity.

(Hey Guys, how about telling us where you fish and how, your insights into technique and giving us a fishing story?)

Maybe, like many of the rest of us, they are just waiting for the rain. Maybe it’s a coincidence they started posting just now, in a political thread involving the Salmonid Foundation at a time when this board has taken a (possibly {hopefully?} temporary) turn toward the political. Maybe they too are just spending this dry time, this down time, brooding and talking about issues of crucial importance to all of us.

Terribly important issues...vital issues.. issues deserving our full attention year round. But issues that sure as hell won’t be getting any attention from me if it ever rains…… RAIN!….. RAIN! ……COME ON! ……RAIN! ….DAMN IT! …RAIN!