07-15-2006, 03:05 PM
[cool]You know what they say... "Beauty is skin deep, stupidity goes clean to the bone." It is sometimes difficult to grasp how people can show such disregard for their fellow man. (Of course I understand the deeper issue but that's not something to discuss here.) Stupidity is really the kindest and most hopeful explanation for it. At least there's hope that some learning might take place. Total cold disregard for other human life besides one's own is a much uglier diagnosis. I'd like to believe there are just a lot of stupid people out there and that the growing coarseness around us isn't a symptom of a much deeper malady. You can humor me by agreeing.[
] That guy in the boat is probably just oblivious to the way he's coming across.
Part of my problem is that I'm old enough to remember the civility among fishermen that would yield a whole section of water (river or lake) to a fellow fisherman and, in time, there would be the reciprocation of the same. It was a kinder, gentler world where a kid could leave home in the morning, fish all day, and return home in the evening with never a thought to danger from another human. If you somehow got into trouble you could count on a neighbor helping you out.
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[#0000ff][size 1]Don't know why, but boaters often feel that having the larger craft gives them the right to crowd out anyone in a lesser ride. I have lost count of the times boats have all but trolled right over top of me, or have gone between me and the shoreline where I was obviously casting and fishing. [/size][/#0000ff]
I find myself wondering occasionally if some of it may have to do with the different perspectives of the boater vs. the tuber. When I'm in my tube, even on small ponds, things appear much larger than they look from a vantage up and above the water (such as in a boat or on the shore.) Maybe the transgression doesn't seem so blatant from the view of the guy sitting in a boat. Again, humor me.[]
Still not fishing but hopeful. (Can you tell by the length of my post? Much more philosophizing than fishing.) Can't remember the last time I've gone this long without wetting a line. Priorities, priorities... I have a big picture of my SFC set up as wallpaper on my wide screen monitor at home. It greets me each morning and reminds me of more carefree days that I hope will soon return.
As always I appreciate the "fishing" I get to do here through the experiences of others. The pictures make it more enjoyable.
z~
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] That guy in the boat is probably just oblivious to the way he's coming across. Part of my problem is that I'm old enough to remember the civility among fishermen that would yield a whole section of water (river or lake) to a fellow fisherman and, in time, there would be the reciprocation of the same. It was a kinder, gentler world where a kid could leave home in the morning, fish all day, and return home in the evening with never a thought to danger from another human. If you somehow got into trouble you could count on a neighbor helping you out.
You wrote:
[#0000ff][size 1]Don't know why, but boaters often feel that having the larger craft gives them the right to crowd out anyone in a lesser ride. I have lost count of the times boats have all but trolled right over top of me, or have gone between me and the shoreline where I was obviously casting and fishing. [/size][/#0000ff]
I find myself wondering occasionally if some of it may have to do with the different perspectives of the boater vs. the tuber. When I'm in my tube, even on small ponds, things appear much larger than they look from a vantage up and above the water (such as in a boat or on the shore.) Maybe the transgression doesn't seem so blatant from the view of the guy sitting in a boat. Again, humor me.[
] Still not fishing but hopeful. (Can you tell by the length of my post? Much more philosophizing than fishing.) Can't remember the last time I've gone this long without wetting a line. Priorities, priorities... I have a big picture of my SFC set up as wallpaper on my wide screen monitor at home. It greets me each morning and reminds me of more carefree days that I hope will soon return.
As always I appreciate the "fishing" I get to do here through the experiences of others. The pictures make it more enjoyable.
z~
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