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Originally Posted by Saltheart
Flap ,I don't want to highjack what has turned into a most excellent discussion and I don't know about ...Invariably leading people or ....what they might reasonably infer or ...what someone might have supported.
I can tell you three things that I know for sure Bob Pond was concerned about
he was definitely concerned about the run off of fertilizer into the Chesapeake Bay system and in particular that that run off extended way up into Cental Pennsylvania and Lancaster County where he could make little headway in convincing people concerned about their religion and culture that they should reduce their potential crop sizes by using less ferilizer to save some fish with stripes.
He was also concerned with possibly relocating fish to try to establish spawning areas in other places besides the Chesepeake bay and Hudson River ( I believe he actually transported fish to the CT river but I'm a little fuzzy on that memory)
He also was in favor of Catch and Release as evidenced by the fact that he would always let me know that his people would be glad to rig my poppers with single tail hooks instead of the standard trebles (if I wanted) to make it easier to practice Catch and Release .
These are facts from which people can invariably be lead or reasonably infer whayever they want.
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So what you are saying in this last part, if I may be so bold as to assume this, is that Bob Pond, who developed a fish catching bait as devastating on bass that he named it the Atom, was advocating C&R because he, like Robert Oppenhiemer, who developed the real A-Bomb, felt a touch shall we dare say, guilty, of creating such a powerful weapon? Hmmmm.......
Anyway, talked to the magazine today and some changes might occur. As C. M. says in his e-mail. Irresponsible they are not and will not be but as some wise old bird said before, "You can't please everybody". Human nature being what it is there will always be critics. Hopefully this will put some minds at ease. Now I got to hit the cellar cause I got loads o' plugs to finish. Two weeks and counting.