Re: President Bush and Baby Largemouth Bass
So, what I'm hearing is that what he did was fine and dandy, but it should not have been broadcast to an ignorant public? <br /><br />While I do understand your point, I just don't think we need to keep hiding normal behavior from the likes of PITA types and morons who just can not understand or comprehend the reasoning behind his, yours or my actions. <br /><br />When I was a kid, my dad stocked the big pond on the farm with trout. A couple years later, the idiot neighbors "released" just a few Sunfish/Bluegill from the Erie Canal into the same pond. Let me tell you, it didn't take long at all before the trout were just dying....you'd go down there and they'd just be floating. The bluegill were reproducing SO fast that they were crowding out the trout...there were thousands of them. The little buggers reproduced so fast that they never even exceeded about 3 inches. You could see their little dug out "nests" as far out as you could see through the water and around the perimeter of the whole pond. You could catch em all day on an empty hook. We started stocking it again ourselves with largemouth bass that we caught at a farmer friend of my dad's pond over the next couple years. WE helped the bass along by fishing out as many as the bluegill as we could. We'd easily get 20-30 each over a couple hours of fishing. Some went to the barn cats, some to the dogs and most were left right there on the bank of the pond. OH THE HUMANITY! Well let me tell you, by the next morning they were always gone....whether we were feeding coyotes, coy dogs, or muskrats...the fish did not go to waste. And as long as I know they went to feed something, we were content and still are. The bass are doing good now, but we still feed any bluegill caught to the barn cats, let the dogs have some fun with a few and leave some on the bank.<br /><br />Some might say, "oh how cruel" and would think that maybe we should have left them alone or paid someone to come in and gather the little buggers up and bring them to a nice, safe new home somewhere else. To them I say go sh*t in your hat, get a grasp on reality, and get a life. <br /><br />It might be a dog eat dog world out there, but every once in a while...it's a dog eat fish world.
