Sorry, counsellor, I've reread my own post several times just to be sure and it really wasn't my intention to suggest that anyone be
excluded but rather recommend that we include the living as well.
As for Yee, Billy the Greek, Al Bentsen and Paul Melnyck, all of whose names I recognize, and the others with whom I am not familiar, of course. Hey, listen, all I know is what I read and I don't get off the Island a lot.
Iron Mike? Absolutely. Mike's a good friend of mine, he's accomplished a helluva a lot for a guy his age and there's another Islander much younger still who has all the potential in the world for all-star status, though that's yet to come. The Iron Man has certainly made a "positive contribution to the sport" by example in his dedication to surfcasting. The proof there is in the pudding.
Same goes for the other CA, too, Crazy Alberto whom I've had the pleasure of fishing with, if only too briefly. And I hope to take Alberto up on his offer to go trouting with him one of these days.
In conclusion, Mike, I'm hard put to find anything anywhere in my post to further suggest that consideration hinge on some sort of provincial restriction.
On the other hand, I do have to submit that any HOF worth a damn would also have to include the much-maligned #^&#^&#^&#^& Tremblay who
is from this neck of the woods and known from the cold waters of Maine to the Jersey shore .
