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While I can't agree with your entire post, your closing thought is dead on. WE are supposed to be teaching the new generation of sportsman. We can blame no one but ourselves. If you don't believe it, look in your rear view mirror the next time you pull out of the driveway for that all important tournament. Who is standing there wishing he or she could go? Are bragging rights and a ten dollar trophy worth it? I have two daughters who have been fishing and hunting with me since they were in diapers, and I still feel that I missed to much of there lives. I know, fishing with kids is a pain, but who taught you? It's time to give back.
The big change that I see is that fishing has gone from a family experence to a competition that, if you win, won't mean squat when you're 65 and he is 35 and he leaves YOU in the driveway to go get that ten dollar trophy.
Don't blame the Ikes of our sport, WE are failing.
Steve
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