I am hard core and nailed down against fair chase.It ain't no fun.
When are you folks going to chop a hole in the ice and noodle naked in February,OR noodle naked in june with the Snappers and Cottonmouths in Georgia?You can actually catch and release in HONEST fair chase this way!Do any of you know a fairer way?
Folks like me who buy line,hooks,sinkers,poles,rods.reels,boats,motors,fish finders,nets,bait and such do so to catch fish.None of this is purchased to give the fish any chance that we can eliminate.I am honest about it.Name the pieces of equipment you bought to help give the fish a chance!Beer don't count,though that is all that I know of that any use or have bought.
If we were worth a crap at fishing,we would not think that we needed or even want all of this stuff.If we were any good,there would not be any fish left to catch.
We take every advantage that the law and our finances allow and call it fair chase and sportsmanship.We chase a primitive creature with a primitive brain who operates on instinct.We often use equipment costing thousands of dollars and often weighing a ton or even tons to catch a fish.Anyone who calls this fair chase or sportsmanship will play Golf.After all,he has the same values,why not.Golf started out with homemade clubs and balls.A rough un mowed pasture stocked with mean cows,meaner bulls and all of their manure!Now a cripple like me can by the rules play Professionally!Not much of a game and they want to call it a sport.It is about as much a sport as fishing and hunting really is.
Many of these often condemn the commercial fishermen,trot liners,set liners,noodlers and trappers as un sportsmanship.Well they are right.They are as or no less as the people complaining about them.What a joke!
Many of us "Sportsmen look in a mirror,like what we see and think that the world should rotate to suit us.What is even worse.Some expect it,or act like they do.
I have seen folk ridicule someone fishing with a beer can or cola bottle yet brag of their sportsmanship in using a $200.00 rig.
Why is sportsmanship now interpreted to mean "catch all that you can with the money you have to spend doing it.
I believe I was honest about it.I did it for food,money and recreation.I have yet to see fair chase or sportsmanship involved.Catch and release is still recreation.
I for one am not and have never been a fair chase man other than listening to a dog run a fox or rabbit for fun.I hunted and fished with the best that I could afford to give ME all of the advantage that I could take and that I was allowed.I still do!
If any have equipment that they bought and use to give the fish and game a better chance,please let me know.
How can it be fair chase unless the fish and game have the same chance of survival that you have?Many on here can tell you that "fair chase"ain't fun.
I wrote all of this in fun.Sadly,there is a lot of truth here.
True fair chase is hunting Grizzly with just a dozen knives.
Courting a woman is not fair chase because the man never had a chance!
I love you Brothers and Sisters.peewee