This thread illustrates the fact we shouldn't jump into conclusion too fast or stereotype people by this or that. The young hero who saved the victim with his hook was earlier frowned upon as being stupid. What a joke! BF said every one there was caught in a panic stage. Many might have flashed the thought like what Casino Jim said, about risking their own life while with a young family & kids. It is not an easy decision for mere mortals to make that selfless jump within seconds, and it is always easy to stay back & criticize when you are not at the panic scene. Have some trust & respect on people's goodness in general.
Thanks goodness that the guy survives so there is not another widow & grieving family. What has fishing method to do with this? Rodney is right on with the mob mentality in this forum sometimes. There seems to be 'blood hounds' ready to pound on the next spill of 'blood'. Whatever happens to fisherman brotherhood? Let's be gentler to each other. Look around you in your social circle. Actually you will find that you and your strong fishing blood is quite rare (ain't you glad you find each other in forum like this?) among the population. So why not be nicer to your own kind, even though they may be in different stage of fishing development. As long as they are fishing legally, so be it. Our duty is to report violation, not to trash & stereotype in a forum.
Our real enemies are forces that can threatenr our fish stocks in much bigger pictures (such as environmental & fish habitat degradation by various factors), overfishing by commercial or FN sectors (they take much bigger share and can wipe out a stock if not well managed), and also organizations like PETA whose agenda is stopping you and me from fishing. Watch out for politicians who have a PETA mentality and start cutting back funding like what we are witnessing now. Didn't they just cut 600k coho stocking recently from the Vedder? What else is next? Just my humble 2cents.
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