Originally Posted by
Noelm
I think we have a couple of issues here, there is the catch and release everything types, that deride anyone who keeps anything for any reason, and only used bio degradeable lures, (the true Nazi) then you have the ones that think they fit into this group,that is untill they catch something good, then it is OK to keep one 'for the table", somewhere in the middle there is the "normal" fisherman, who knows how to fish, has no trouble getting a feed, keeps as many as they can use and throws back the rest, now we move onto the next lot, those that keep everything and anything, just to find out when cleaning them, it is too much trouble and throws them away at the ramp, then further onto the full on black marketeer that is a gun fisho, keeps anything legal and flogs it off to anyone who has a dollar, in between all these there is a few varying examples that fit into all the categories when it suits them, catch and release only (if they caught nothing) table fisherman when they caught a good Snapper, black marketeer if someone offers a few dollars for a fish at the ramp, greenie when someone mentions pro's, anything at all that suits at the time, we all fit into one of those brackets somewhere.