I would encourage you to do a google search on "michigan coaster brook trout" to find out more. They are endangered, though in the UP more from sulfide mining than from "fillet-and-release" crowds.
I'll add more later....
On 2/8/06, Kevin W. Machon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On the environmentalist topic, has anyone found Ted Williams article in the
newest FR&R, "Bringing Back The Giants", about great lakes "coaster"
brookies mildly disturbing?
I'm fine with fishing magazines calling for removing dams and new
legislation and even picinkg out any political party for doing whatever
they're doing. But this article seems to cross some line. A couple
passages (and I'll try to not otally remove them from context):
"Although Wisconsin and Michigan still allow the mass slaughter of potential
coasters in most of their tributaries," and "In 1989, despite an ugly
confrontation with the fillet-and-release crowd-". C'mon! Slaughter?
Fillet-and-release? What does that even mean? Keep some and release some?
I know folks on the list here keep sone fish they catch for the freezer
(gasp!) - bass, trout, panfish, whatever - and I have some in my freezer -
bass, trout, panfish and whatever - although I release 95% of what I catch
as I'm sure most of you all do, too. I don't need to feel guilty about
eating what I catch, and I don't think anyoe who legally catches and keeps
fish. This article seems like over the top browbeating.
Has anyone else senn this and have any reaction? Or am I totally
overreacting?
Sorry - had to vent.
Kev
Proud Member, Fillet-and-Release Club (whatever that means)
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