Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Watch That Backcast

When flyfishing, especially on the small streams I am apt to frequent, it is important to watch your backcast or you are liable to end up with your fly caught in a tag alder or some other streamside vegetation.  This is problematic for a number of reasons, least of which is losing the fly to the vegetation, so it is quite important to watch that backcast.

I mention this after reading a story which Drudge links to under the headline New Obama rules may prohibit citizens from fishing the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters…  Drudge’s link actually takes you to an ESPN story headlined Culled out Obama administration will accept no more public input for federal fishery strategy, which begins this way.

The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing the nation’s oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters.

Some strategy.  Obama, and the Obama adminstration, seem hell bent on destroying economic prosperity, whether directly attacking it via ObamaCare (DeathCare), or via more subtle attacks on a pastime which has enthralled generations of young and old for thousand of years, fishing.

I don’t care whether you’re a worm dunker, fly fisher, bobber fisherman, catch and release enthusiast, as I am, or simply enjoy a freshly caught trout fillet thrown on the coals, while the gills of the carcass of the trout are still flapping up and down, reading that the Obama administration is even considering prohibiting fishing should raise your ire like a nicely tied fly will raise a finicky trout.

Watch that backcast, and more importantly watch the government before it snatches your fly rod or fishing rod from your hand.

UPDATE:  The Executive Editor of ESPN, Steve Bowman, has issued an explanatory, rambling note, though not a retraction, in regards to the ESPN article originally cited in this post.  It can be read here.

Posted by John Venlet on 03/09 at 12:29 PM
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