Lastly, the part I have debated with myself on writing for more than 16 hours, a couple of years really, but I feel this has to get said.
WTF is going on here?
This used to be a friendly place where people would post fishing reports ( more than 20 individual reports on a Monday), fun banter about flies and fly fishing, C&R and delicious shore lunch trout, gear, dogs, people, traffic, single malt scotch and cigars, boats, float tubes, waders... There would be 300-400+ posts a day, everyone was having a good time.
A newbie comes on and posts about help finding places to fish in Placer or Nevada Co., but he gets his balls busted instead for not shopping at the local fly shop. No one ever answers his question, either. (Hey Ralph, I hope you're paying fuel tax for all that biodiesel you are making, your local schools, police, fire, and roads need your support.
A guide posts a fishing report, and several other competitor guides bust his balls about posting fishing reports. I don't mind guides posting reports, as long as they say they are guides in the post. How many guides have sent emails to posters "spaming" their services? I've never gotten one from RJ, but I have from other guides that currently or previously posted here. I don't even mind "over-inflated" reports, for crying out loud, haven't you heard of "fish stories"? No wonder there is no new blood in the sport. We lose. PETA wins.
Why aren't the out of state posters posting reports? ( YOU KNOW WHO I'M TALKING TO!) I know one person who lives on one of the most famous steelhead/salmon rivers in the country; he posts no info and just stirs the pot here on this forum. Why?
How is that "no spot burning fishing reports so the lurkers won't show up" working out for ya'? Are the rivers any less crowded in the 5 years since the anti-fish post Nazis started whining? How's that Trinity? Upper Sac? Lower Sac? Delta? Putah?
How much work is involved in changing this forum software to phpBB or something similar? Viewing this one is so time consuming, just to reach the bottom of a short thread. Breaking a post into 3 sections as short as a text message is a joke.
nice friendly place, this has become!
Whining off.
Brian
Miss ya Hud.
You too Janet.
JohnS- all dogs go to heaven. I hope Annie isn't too lonely. Dogs mourn too.
Have a
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