[VFB] Bad Karma thing to do

[Jeff Frye]

This from SI.com today. I'm thinking that blaming his failed marraige on fishing is a brutal cop out. This guy is seeming to be bad at marraige, friend making and telling the truth. Claiming that fish as his catch is what did him in.  The story:


It's the fish story to end all fish stories. An avid angler who claimed a British record eight years ago for catching a monster rainbow trout now says he didn't hook the fish -- it was already dead. "I just feel so much better about myself now. It's like a weight's been lifted off me," said Clive White, 35, who notified the British Fish Record Committee two weeks ago about his deception. White had claimed a record in 1995 with a trout weighing 36 pounds, 14 ounces. But he told The Times newspaper of London on Monday that he actually found the dead fish floating on the water, scooped it into his net and told two other fisherman that he had caught it. The trout had been reared in a special tank to be super-sized. According to the fishery owner, it had only been released two days before. The "catch" earned White his own column in an angling magazine and spawned an obsession with the sport that cost him his marriage. "Fishing is a way of saying, 'I don't need anyone else.' It's like golf; many men just bury themselves in it because they have low self-esteem and want to prove themselves," said White, whose wife filed for divorce in April. " … It's a sport for men who can't show their feelings. It's exciting and competitive, but fishing does not make you happy; I know that now. Fishing becomes your social life. What you don't realize is what a boring person you become; it's just you and a stick."