Missing the point -completely-
Maybe read the posts again, or go lurk at the docks.
We are in a PR battle right now. You better understand that, real quick.
That comment is rich. LOL. Nice troll.
Missing what frickin’ point the original poster and you are trying to make? DFO knows exactly what is going on out there. These Coho are not whale food.
Been on Instagram lately and checked out the slayfest going on on WCVI and all the brothers and sisters locally ? Gone on to Facebook to see the slayfest going going on in the Rivers? The Fraser was open to a commercial fishery yesterday....limits are 4 per person per day and the Fraser is open with thousands of rods on the flows....and you’re beaking off about a picture.
Don’t give me your holier than thou attitude and think you have accomplished something. Go onto the WCVI, Campbell River, South Island, Victoria, Sooke Renfrew threads and them what you just told me and they’ll tell you Right where to go and how to get there.
You think this a PR a battle? PR?!? Give me a break. You really think Sportfishing Guides posting pictures slits our throat and makes a difference? Pray that a couple of more SRKW don’t die....then you’ll see exactly who is missing the point.
Guide in the QCI when there is non retention of Chinook like there was in the early 1990’s...and believe me....I get the frickin’ point alright...I was there.
To go after the operator and guides over that picture and say it was uncalled for, and groundless and to say that The firm Or myself missed the point is chickenshit forum pablum. In my opinion, which you clearly disagree with and more than entitled to, your viewpoint and original poster amounts to an indirect character assassination of the said firm and guides involved.
If you have an issue with the picture as the other Poster did, feel free to call the owners and complain. Educate them if you believe they need education.
However, I can assure you they don’t and they don’t need me to defend them...and that’s Not what I’m doing. I’m merely saying it’s wrong to levy such criticism and opinion against a firm based on a picture.
Do you know those guys? Have you guided with those guys and worked with them? I have. They’re class acts and they have done more for representing sportfishing and protecting the fishery than you have...and they do it each and every day. They donate time and money to enhancement programs, sponsor a net pen fishery which you benefit from, provide DFO with genetic samples through the Avid Angler program, and promote and represent your interests at the table. They do so Voluntarily and without being asked or compensated for it. They represent and voice YOUR interests to numerous people so YOUR form of recreation is not forgotten and not left out of the equation. Do you know what goes on on a fishing charter? It’s not just a guide driving boat and setting rods in release clips. Do you know where fishing license revenue sales go? Do you know what inquiring guests ask and want to know about the challenges facing the resource? You know who answers all those questions and the answers which are given? Professional fishing guides and operators do...that’s who. ThAt’s part and parcel what we do. Pro guides are not a bunch of buck toothed rednecks who care none about their future in this day and age. Trust me.
However, lots of everyone else posting tubs full of fish off Sandheads today...however no one is freaking out about them. Lots of guides everywhere posting similar pics...no one freaking out about that.
Floater, for the love of Fishing, WHY are you making out like sportfishing guides/firms are the enemy in 28/29? Chinook daily and possession limits are halved in 28/29, Hatchery Coho only, and we’ve taken our lumps we are hardly the enemy. Charter firms are taking a beating financially from the publicity. mass cancellations are some lodges. Guides burning tons more fuel to go fish for the same fish which go right by Sooke and Victoria. DFO knows it. scientists know it. SRKW eat Fraser Chinook. Not Cap Hatchery Coho in Area 28.
I don’t put food on my table from guiding or pay my rent and put gas in my tank from guiding anymore but that doesn’t mean I’m not entitled or unqualified or uneducated to speak to current issues at hand. It doesn’t make me holier than thou or anyone else so don’t make it out like I think I am because I don’t.
Get out there and get some for yourself...and hold your breath for what could come next....and odds are none of us will like it.
Tight lines.
