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Raven · 06-19-2003, 05:42 AM

I have to take a STAND. IT has to be accesibility and recognition.

To many people who want to have mansions,palaces, or their own private ,private ,private Estate on the waters edge are making accesibility a dirty word. IF you look at fishing in general
as a sport....ok...publicly it has taken a back seat to all others.

Everyday you see every gory detail on television about all the major sports of baseball,basketball,football,tennis ,golf,soccer,ect.
and no where is fishing even mentioned.

We contribute millions of dollars to the States Economy buying
licenses,gear,paying for BOATS,parking,gasoline ect. and get very little recognition or RESPECT. That has to change.

And now with conservation groups with the walt disney mentality preaching BAMBI politics, the United States AND NEW ENGLAND in
particular have to PROTECT our Right to the pursuit of happiness.
and for us fishermen ...its fishing!! The sports taught in school
foster hostility and brutality with parents killing one another on the sports field (battlefield) over ->A GAME. Thats insanity!

06-19-2003, 05:42 AM	#10
Raven ........ iTrader: (0) Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 22,805 Blog Entries: 1	i AGREE with jeffsod I have to take a STAND. IT has to be accesibility and recognition. To many people who want to have mansions,palaces, or their own private ,private ,private Estate on the waters edge are making accesibility a dirty word. IF you look at fishing in general as a sport....ok...publicly it has taken a back seat to all others. Everyday you see every gory detail on television about all the major sports of baseball,basketball,football,tennis ,golf,soccer,ect. and no where is fishing even mentioned. We contribute millions of dollars to the States Economy buying licenses,gear,paying for BOATS,parking,gasoline ect. and get very little recognition or RESPECT. That has to change. And now with conservation groups with the walt disney mentality preaching BAMBI politics, the United States AND NEW ENGLAND in particular have to PROTECT our Right to the pursuit of happiness. and for us fishermen ...its fishing!! The sports taught in school foster hostility and brutality with parents killing one another on the sports field (battlefield) over ->A GAME. Thats insanity!