i've wanted to mention this for awhile now....
and this as good a thread as any to say it in....
but because i like to play with art so much...
and like to take a members picture say
and make him an astronaut or something for laughs
and i always keep it clean....
i've noticed that on google or the internet in general
as i have scoured it for fisherman's pictures..ok
that as a whole group we are only shown to be these people
holding up a freakin fish and there are few to none of
the old...you know...norman rockwell -- bunch of old timers
sitting on the front porch of the old tackle shop swapping fish stories
about the one that got away....
even though thats what this message board is all about.... "GRAPHICALLY "
....you rarely see
a gathering of people that are fisherman in some other activity
like

just an example....if we had a pictures of people in the BIGFISH
plug shack ..some playing checkers on the wooden barrel.....
one guy turning a plug ...... another looking in an on the water magazine...
in other words..engaged in a fishing related activity other than....
here's what i caught today... boring standard pose.
i think that's wrong.... it sends out the wrong message.
it doesnt serve to illustrate the comrodery we as fisherman
have... in a small group of fishing buddies and\or how the sport unites us...
in the pursuit of fishing for that elusive 50lb trophy.
keep that in mind... when you decide
not to post a fisherman
gathering picture where no fish are being displayed in the photo.