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Originally Posted by uglymike
Maybe you guys using fly rods have "got it" being happy with 1lb. blugill, crappies, 2lb.bass etc....If you're Mr. Average Lunch Bucket Nebraskan, you're out of luck unless you're willing to deal with the circus...
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Wow! I just got told! Surely I have "got it" waving my fly rod. He!!, I can't even catch a 8" bluegill to enter the competition. You think that's the technique I am using? You think that's the quality of fisheries here in Nebraska? What have you done, besides lowering your standards, to IMPROVE the fishing in YOUR state???
I feel that States do, for the most part, the best with what they have to govern/manage the opportunities that are available. I understand the 20-year plan! They need more hunters/fishers so that they can have more resources to improve more opportunities. No one will ever have it down perfect! They recognize that there is something they need to do to make NE a better place for outdoorsmen (that includes the ladies).
We have a huge opportunity as a formal organization, with which you are member through signing up, to have a POSITIVE impact on the arenas that fuel our passion for fishing and hunting!!! You don't even have to pay dues to be involved!
There are other organizations that you can become involved with that make differences. If I wouldn't have been taken fishing as a young lad I would have never been introduced to the passion I have for fishing like I have today. Takemefishing.org, Recycled Fish, Angler's Legacy... you think they just want your money??? NO!!! Shoot, they are also free. You can be a gracious donor if you so chose. They make differences for all the fishing community, even the people that gripe that the grass is greener in Kansas!!!
The point is, we have improving to do!!! Let's get out and help improve. How many times have you heard OBG ask for help with the youth fishing instruction??? Andrea joined our forum and asks for assistance. You think the "periscopes" are just for the birds to have their families in??? I think we are making improvements. If we aren't moving forward, perhaps we are moving backward... the point is to eliminate the latter so we make progress!!!
I know that was drawn out. I know I placed passion in my words.
There are some that sit idly by in the train car watching the beautiful scenery. There are those that drive the train to the next vista!!! Be a driver!!!
Sincerely,
Another Mr. Average Lunch Bucket Nebraskan with no access to stellar hunting or fishing property that fights the circus