Gary smith
fight crime...shoot back
"Jimmy D. Moore" wrote:
Gary, (looks like some bigtime CEO on his way to Ted Turner's Ranch)That's what it reminded me of too, but where it really came from was my "paraphrasing of a passage by Wayne Fields from his book, "What The River Knows"
Wayne was talking about all the trash that lines the streambanks and pointedly, the carelessness of one particular fishermen who shrugged off his remarks about his polluting the stream. "He just took another swig of his beer, tossed the can into the stream, gave me a disgusted look, moved on upriver."
It's a quote that we should display to remind us and others that this attitude still abounds. I would daresay all of us who fish to any great extent have witnessed something similar on some of our favorite streams. I know I did, just last weekend while fly fishing the North Bosque River near where it feeds into Lake Waco. Sadly, the annual "clean up day" on Lake Waco and its tributaries nets thousands of pounds of cans, wrappers, and other junk tossed onto the banks. And who knows what the streams and lake bottom look like!
"What The River Knows" was written in 1990
"Just doing my part to preserve our streams!"
JIMMY
