06-30-2011, 06:56 PM
[cool][#0000ff]Hey Ron, I've been watching the interchange here with some interest. You have handled it with a lot more tact and diplomacy than I would have. Over the years I have just about had it with individuals and groups that adopt a water or a species as their own and want to shut out everybody else. Very common among the bassing crowd and increasingly with walleye snobs. Lots of it in Utah. The bassaholics proclaim that they are okay with other people catching and keeping bass...as long as they are not either the small ones or the larger ones. Small ones make big ones and big ones make small ones. Never mind that everybody kicks into the state funds to stock and maintain the fisheries and are equally entitled to catch and keep as many fish as they want...within the limits.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I also have mixed feelings about the internet, when used to research info and present arguments. The WWW really opens up the world of info on a lot of subjects but whenever some zealot wants to make a case they stay up all night on their search engines trying to find some obscure published report from the past that supports their arguments. And because it is presented as a link on a website we are supposed to accept it as gospel and back off from our own viewpoints.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I suppose it is only a matter of time until groups of catfish fanatics get together and start hammering on us for molesting their beloved kitties. REAL cat lovers are bad enough (I hate cats) but when the fishy kind of cats get organized groups set up for them...and try to exclude all others from catching them...I think I will quit fishing.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I also have mixed feelings about the internet, when used to research info and present arguments. The WWW really opens up the world of info on a lot of subjects but whenever some zealot wants to make a case they stay up all night on their search engines trying to find some obscure published report from the past that supports their arguments. And because it is presented as a link on a website we are supposed to accept it as gospel and back off from our own viewpoints.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I suppose it is only a matter of time until groups of catfish fanatics get together and start hammering on us for molesting their beloved kitties. REAL cat lovers are bad enough (I hate cats) but when the fishy kind of cats get organized groups set up for them...and try to exclude all others from catching them...I think I will quit fishing.[/#0000ff]
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