Originally Posted By: Sky-Guy
Folks-

I don't see the reasoning behind bashing any organization who's intent is to help fish, and attempt to organize the angling community as a whole behind fisheries conservation.

You may not like who started it.

You may not like how the organization kicked off.

Perhaps you don't like the communication and organizational problems that have plagued the org. from time to time either.

But realize, this is a grass roots effort. Essentially an all volunteer organization. Every single successful grass roots organization that ever did anything worthwhile ran over bumps in the road achieving their goals.

Criticizing your angling peers is futile and a waste of time. If you haven't received anything from the CCA, did you take 1 minute to send the office an email to inquire about your membership. Have you been to your local chapter meeting and let the secretary know?
If not, shut the hell up.



You may not agree with the stance the CCA takes on some issues, or what some members say about the CCA, but I bet you likely agree with each of their OFFICIAL positional statements. Look em up.

I myself became heavily involved in my local chapter in it's first 1 1/2 years, until I had some issues with how the chapter was being ran. I didn't care for the lack of communication, organization, etc. and frankly didn't have enough time to deal with it. Now I do.I'm going to do something about fixing it instead of complaining about it.


It takes a COMMITTED group of MOTIVATED people with the same beliefs to achieve something big. See you guys at Sno-King soon.


Thank you Ryley! thumbs

I do not agree with the way a lot of things are bieng handled. And I do not agree with Gary Loomis on most things.

But what I see is a good grass roots organization trying to find itself.

I belong for the simple reason that there is influence in numbers. I try to become more involved to steer the CCA in the direction I believe they should go. At this moment, I am not at all happy with the way some things are addressed, or the possitions they are taking.

But I have definetly got the ear of a few people here. This will take time, And I appreciate everyone in my local chapter for listening.

In the meantime, the commercial fishing industry is in love with a few on this board.
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Rusty Bell