Save Our Cats From Fishermen

We showed you some footage a little while back of cats being used as bait that was clearly fake. Well, someone has figured out a way to make some coin by spreading lies about fishermen and selling shirts. Now I’m not saying that people have never used cats as bait, maybe they have, but its certainly not a contributing factor to the decline of the feline population. And showing carefully edited videos, that not only fail to show a hook actually in a cat, or a fish actually eating a cat, is laughable.

It’s really unfortunate that people prey on the gullibility of others to make a quick dime. The site doesn’t try to hide anything, they even clearly state that they are a FOR profit organization. If anyone out there can actually show me footage of of a cat REALLY being use as bait, I’ll buy a shirt myself!

via Single Barbed

The First Woman to Fish the Bassmaster Classic

The Bassmasters Classic is the biggest bass fishing tournament in the world. For 38 years the classic has only featured men, but this year that changed. Kim Bain-Moore made history competing against 49 men for the most coveted prize in bass fishing. For some reason this was a hard pill to swallow for many of her competitors and fans of the sport and that blows me away. Kim’s reflections on the event really put things into perspective.

“Then there was the undercurrent of displeasure towards my situation from some of my fellow Classic competitors…which for a few of them turned into a personal vendetta.

Be careful what you wish for, hey. I wished to fish the Classic and that’s exactly what I got — boots and all. Thanks guys for making it real and not pretend. I’ve been to the Classic, and there was no special favourite sister or hold the door for the girl treatment. Yet out of the blue, friendliness, yes; some true greats of our sport who were competing at this Classic countered the negative vibes with their support and endorsements without the “although, but, what if.”

What makes things worse is the utter lack of online footage about this historic event. I found a few short, low quality video clips on various blogs, but the only serious interview I found is several months old. Not even YouTube had a decent video of Kim!

Female Qualifies For Bassmaster Classic – More related videos from Asterpix

So whats the deal here, why would something like this possibly upset people?
Would any of you have a problem competing against a woman in a fishing tournament?

Winter Driving

I’ve lived in a lot of different places, but Halifax Nova Scotia has the worst drivers by far. I think it can be blamed on the fact that most of the people in the city grew up out in the country and simply don’t know how to drive in a city with more then 13 cars. In the winter things are particularly bad. Not only are there bad drivers, but the snow removal is pitiful. Of course, the only thing worse then the snow removal is the giant pot-holes all over every major road.

I could go on about the driving here, but instead I think these photos I took Friday morning sum things up pretty well.

How does that even happen?

It Ain’t Easy Being a Fisherman

Who knew recession would hit us fishermen so hard?

This past summer gas prices were over $1.60 a litre here in Eastern Canada. Even though I drive a pretty economical car, those prices kept me fishing close to home. I’m sure many boat owners fished less then usual this year due to the gas prices as well. Now gas prices are under $0.70 a litre, and I should be happy about that I guess, but I’m really just annoyed! Am I the only one that fished less as a result of the high gas prices?

Fish Are the Kittens of the Sea

They say you learn something new everyday. Today I learned that fish are the kittens of the sea. I also created my own sea kitten. His name is Rubarb, and he likes to eat other sea kittens.

Sea Kitten Fact: “Like their surface-dwelling cousins, the land kittens, sea kittens enjoy being petted. Their lack of arms makes it difficult for them to pet back, but they often gently rub against each other as a sign of affection.”

Creepy.

Thanks OFNC!

Hate Mail #1

Fishing Fury has been around a few years now, and incredibly we have never had any hate mail. I think the first sign a site is getting popular is when hate mail starts to show up, so I’ll consider this to be good news!

Lisa writes,

“You are horrible people. Fishing JUST to Fish, and Feel the so called ‘rush’ it gives to KILL an innocent animal is WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You should be ashamed of yourself!”

I think it’s pretty weird that people go out of their way to say something mean instead of something positive. Sure out site may show some dead fish, but we are advocates of conservation and catch and release. To me, keeping your catch is no different then buying a hamburger at the grocery store, an animal is dying either way. I guess people forget that a lot of the food they eat was once a living breathing animal.

I guess I’ve been reading too many news letters from Jon’s favorite site PETA.
Maybe we should all be ashamed of ourselves…nah. Can’t we all just get along?