Antidote Quote

For some time now, fishing tackle manufacturers, Boat manufacturers, their dealers, their magazines, and anyone else, that they can get to listen, have been bemoaning the fact that the percentage of anglers in the population is declining. I found the following quotation a pleasant antidote to that jabbering. It is even more interesting to note the author and the year it was published. First the quotation:

?The profound disdain with which some of the trout and salmon anglers regard the black bass has always been a sore point with me?at least it used to be. Recently, as I find my old bass fishing haunts more and more encumbered by other fishermen, I begin to feel grateful that all anglers do not prize the black bass as highly as I do. No longer do I exhort the dry fly enthusiasts to have a try at the black bass. Let them be content with their trout and their salmon. Our good bass waters already are too crowded.?

And the source: John Alden Knight, The Theory and Technique of Fresh Water Angling, Harcourt Brace and Company, 1940, p. 151.

thanks for sharing the quote Bear. I am pretty certain that FAOL is not populated with many disdainful anglers but its an interesting viewpoint from 1940 alright!

As to the tackle manufacturers, my thoughts are that if they really want to proactively address the issue they need to put together an association or coalition to promote angling. I do my own part to make sure that the sport remains and feel certain that most everyone here does so as well. One thing I am doing is volunteering at my son's school to teach tying and casting to older kids.

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"not populated by disdainful anglers".
YOu haven't been in the other Forums much have you ;)