10-27-2019, 10:15 PM
Oh yeah, I just happened to remember too that a lot of "Utards" still refer to brown trout as "natives".
Haven't heard that one to describe Utahans (how awkward is that one) but it made me giggle. And talking about how long you have to live in a spot to become a native or a holdover or whatever, I still don't consider myself a Utah native, just a happy resident. I am a proud Western Slope Colorado native and always will be. And to get back to semantics, the word "native" is related to "nativity", birth. As in "It was the land of my nativity."
I remember my grandfather referring to some fish as natives and I believe they were cutthroat. We dearly loved to fish the beaver ponds for "native" brook trout but I don't think he would have ever called them that. Somewhere inside I am still an eight year old slapping out the sparks from the campfire that lit on the old green army blanket while listening to the grownups talk.
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Haven't heard that one to describe Utahans (how awkward is that one) but it made me giggle. And talking about how long you have to live in a spot to become a native or a holdover or whatever, I still don't consider myself a Utah native, just a happy resident. I am a proud Western Slope Colorado native and always will be. And to get back to semantics, the word "native" is related to "nativity", birth. As in "It was the land of my nativity."
I remember my grandfather referring to some fish as natives and I believe they were cutthroat. We dearly loved to fish the beaver ponds for "native" brook trout but I don't think he would have ever called them that. Somewhere inside I am still an eight year old slapping out the sparks from the campfire that lit on the old green army blanket while listening to the grownups talk.
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The older I get the more I would rather be considered a good man than a good fisherman.