Walking out the door one morning this week, the smell of fall was in the air. The sky is bluer. The air crisper. The blue jays flitting. The squirrels scampering. Leaves transitioning from green to yellow, orange, red.
When this feeling enters the angler’s bones, the angler knows that fall fishing is right around the corner. Ponds will cool and trout will once again roam far and wide, having spent the Summer glued to the depths and the cooler water. Rains will raise stream levels and cool the water. Stream trout leave the shelter pools that protected them all summer and begin to move upstream, propagating the next generation on the fish’s mind.
Fishing is violent, inhumane, and one cause of why we have tipped the ecological balance so negatively, oceans are in distress, larger marine animals are starving, and local waterways are in distress. Violence is so ingrained in our cruel forms of entertainment, many don't see it as violent. What could be more cruel than piercing the mouth of another living being, their face, with a sharp hook, hauling their struggling bodies from their HOMES/habitats, for whatever the damn reason, excuse is for this cruelty. America is a violent culture pretending to be moral. It starts with gutting empathy like they gut fish.
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Fishing is violent, inhumane, and one cause of why we have tipped the ecological balance so negatively, oceans are in distress, larger marine animals are starving, and local waterways are in distress. Violence is so ingrained in our cruel forms of entertainment, many don't see it as violent. What could be more cruel than piercing the mouth of another living being, their face, with a sharp hook, hauling their struggling bodies from their HOMES/habitats, for whatever the damn reason, excuse is for this cruelty. America is a violent culture pretending to be moral. It starts with gutting empathy like they gut fish.
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