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dflea said:

DerekJohnson said:

YellowSnow said:

chuck said:

dflea said:

I got banned from ifish.net

They aren't fans of colorful language and dirthead fishing tales over there. It's the dawgman of fishing sites.

Agreed. I made some excellent deals in the buy, sell, trade forum. I also met and went fishing with a few cool guys and made one pretty good friend. Got fed up with the faggery on the boards though. I havent been on there for a few years.

Overall @chuck @dflea the internet is a net negative for fishing. Bigly. Homo sapiens can never keep a secret.

I was listening to a fishing podcast a few months ago by April Vokey. (I think that's her last name). She was talking with a fishing guide about certain rivers in Western Canada that are so inundated with fisherman that it's impossible to enjoy oneself anymore.

Ms. Vokey has done plenty to inform the public about the once-great fishing in NW BC and draw crowds to the rivers she fishes. Now you have to deal with slot limits, you can only fish on certain days, and the overall experience has been degraded.

She makes her living pimping rivers. It's a catch 22.

Salmon, Trout, Steelheader and other magazines waged an all out PR campaign calling all fishermen to BC in the 80s and 90s. They practically begged people from the US to go to BC. Luckily the best steelheading in the world has some protections in place keeping crowds from descending en mass on all of it. Managing systems like the Babine as high end (for the rich only, essentially), trophy catch and release fisheries or with tight slot limits is the only thing protecting them. Other big systems like the Thompson havent fared so well. They can keep turning that thing silver so tourists can elbow in and foul hook hatchery pigs if they want. Just keep the crowds out of the few places still holding uniquely amazing fish or they'll be gone before I get a crack at them.