My fly fishing journey began at the age of 12. With six years of experience under my belt fishing with bait and lures, transitioning to fly fishing was a logical next step. My dad had joined the local fish and game club where the trout ponds were fly fishing only and no hook sizes larger than size 12. There was a board where members would register fish they took home with a limit of five fish per season. Catch and release was the mantra, and rarely did anyone take home a fish unless the hooking wounds deemed survival unlikely.
My dad was the assistant superintendent of schools for the town. He was raised in a family of 11 in Laconia. He worked hard to reach his position in life, and he never forgot his roots.
The question is, is fishing humane, necessary and what do the fish think about it? www.fishfeel.org The history of traditional violence in Western society has created an environmental, ethical, moral, and spiritual question. What do fish feel? What does fishing teach us about our relationship with other species and Mother Nature? Why would we as a society think cruelty to other living beings is a cause for alarm yet so much of the economy relies on it? And the live bait issue? Anyone want someone to knife them through their bodies, toss them into the ocean, and use them as bait for sharks? It's high time this society, replete with many forms of violence, asked itself about its norms and traditions that require a lack of empathy for the suffering of others. A society that lacks empathy is doomed to suffer the consequences as we read in the famous quote, " Wrong does not cease to be wrong just because people share in it" Leo Tolstoy. A good rule of right and wrong is do unto others, That includes other beings! " The death of human emapthy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism" Hannah Arendt
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The question is, is fishing humane, necessary and what do the fish think about it? www.fishfeel.org The history of traditional violence in Western society has created an environmental, ethical, moral, and spiritual question. What do fish feel? What does fishing teach us about our relationship with other species and Mother Nature? Why would we as a society think cruelty to other living beings is a cause for alarm yet so much of the economy relies on it? And the live bait issue? Anyone want someone to knife them through their bodies, toss them into the ocean, and use them as bait for sharks? It's high time this society, replete with many forms of violence, asked itself about its norms and traditions that require a lack of empathy for the suffering of others. A society that lacks empathy is doomed to suffer the consequences as we read in the famous quote, " Wrong does not cease to be wrong just because people share in it" Leo Tolstoy. A good rule of right and wrong is do unto others, That includes other beings! " The death of human emapthy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism" Hannah Arendt
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