...I really, really do. But it seems to me that at least 90% or more of the programming is people ranting and screaming and holding fish up to the sky while the crowd cheers.

Over on the Texas Hunting Forum in the photos section the header reads "please show respect to the animals you harvest when taking a photo". That rings true with me. I feel like the BASS guys and the Redfish Tour guys do not show respect for the fish that they harvest. Perhaps they do have great respect for the fish, I don't know enough to say otherwise. But I can say for sure that I don't believe they demonstrate respect.

I remember the first time I caught myself thanking a little one pound bass for letting me catch him before dropping him back in the water. At that point I decided how I wanted to pursue the activity of angling. I love to eat fish and do so at the given opportunity so please don't mistake me for a member of the "Church of C&R" who believe that everybody else is going to hell.

But heck, yelling and carrying on like those boys do; it?s a whole nother universe. They are not anywhere near the same galactic sector of wheret myself and, forgive my boldness in this assumption, most all fly anglers are.

I sure don't want to get into making those tournament guys wrong, that is not my intent. Rather, it gives me pause to consider what I want out of fishing. Something far afield from what they do obviously. As long as the resource is safe and growing, as long as we can all go fishing safely, I'll satisfy myself with the written word and the few shows that present a slice of what I prefer. And I need to go fishing more often as well.


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