Glad to see the healthy debate on this issue. To those who do not read ALLl my posts
and/or choose to interpret my posts negatively to make your point let me say this:
Fly fishing IS the ONLY way.....to operate a Quality Trout Fisheries. Even barbless single hook
lures with those big Siwash Hooks hook too deeply and often through eyes and the soft tissue back
in the mouth. THAT is what I mean by flyfishing is the only way.
I don't mean it's the only way to ethically fish nor am I a greedy elitest as some
would like to make me out in order to dismiss what I'm saying.
Would I like to see more people LEARNING to fish flies and practicing C&R?
UNCATEGORICALLY YES.
Do I want it all?
UNCATEGORICALLY NO?
But I think about 50/50 would be about right in contrast to the present 97/3 in light of
the trend of greatly increasing numbers of trouters seeing the conservation need and
switching to flyfishing and loving our quality lakes to death.
HEY, watch that backcast will ya??? Being crammed into 3% of the water is no fun either.