Don't forget your flu shots in a crowd like that.
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Embry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 7:23 AM
To: Washington Flyfishers
Subject: Hood Canal Netting and Hoodsport
I drove over the Hood Canal bridge yesterday late PM, and there probably a
8-10 commercial boats netting each side of the canal! For you getting
excited by Hoodsport and thinking you may be kicking the chummies out of
your path, this will likely impact your fishing experience.
If you go, get out in the water, don't fish from shore. University doctoral
students reviewing the effects of family incest and inter-breeding excitedly
look forward to the Hoodsport chum fishery each year because of the
extremely large, localized sample base that can be found along the shore!
:-) I kid, I kid. Really, though, if you fish from shore, make sure you
wear kevlar body armor, safety glasses, hard hat, and you are up on your
tetanus shots (to combat effects of treble hook puncture wounds from
surrounding, not restricted to nearby, fishermen). Also, because of the
condensed mass of humanity, it increases the potential for a
flyfisher/flycaster to possibly hook someone else, as well. It can be
crazy, even if you are out in your float tube/pontoon boat (ala Patrick's
experience, which I've had similar, except for the throttling part).
Richard
