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Flat Stanley! We had a man and his wife take pictures of their Grandson's "Flat Stanley" ice fishing in our shack last winter! I had never heard of it before. It was kind of a neat thing for kids to do and Grammy and Grandpa were right into posing the litter paper doll!
It made me laugh and reminded me of when my kids were little. We took Flat Stanley all the way from IAH to Niagra Falls one week. We documented Flat Stanleys travels with pics all the way. Flat Stanley is the most well behaved travel companion I'd ever had. Not once did he ask to stop to pee, he was never hungry or ask "are we there yet?"
BTW- Bass fishing actually requires knowledge and expertise! Don't believe me? Just ask my friend Charlie Moore!
It made me laugh and reminded me of when my kids were little. We took Flat Stanley all the way from IAH to Niagra Falls one week. We documented Flat Stanleys travels with pics all the way. Flat Stanley is the most well behaved travel companion I'd ever had. Not once did he ask to stop to pee, he was never hungry or ask "are we there yet?"
BTW- Bass fishing actually requires knowledge and expertise! Don't believe me? Just ask my friend Charlie Moore!
You'll never convince me a bass is a gamefish! We used to pull our traps in the winter if we were catching bass. Before there was a limit to the number you could catch we used to pile them on the ice for the crows to eat. They're a trash fish as far as I'm concerned and are indicative of warm water or the poor water quality of whatever swamp they inhabit. Striped Bass from the ocean are a different matter entirely.
Prejudiced! I guess we won't find you with the good ol' boys in the big bass tourneys!
It isn't prejudice it's an observation of fact! I have little tolerance for bass fishing and the weirdos that covet them. Decked out in their Nascar racing jerseys, speeding their flat water metalflake carpet covered boats with the zillion horsepower motors from one trash fish hole to the next! It's definately a flatlander sport. The problem is some of these clowns have seen fit to introduce these warm water species around here so they can emulate their flatlander buddies from the South. Bass take over lakes and ponds they are introduced in to to the detriment of desireable species such as brown trout, salmon or splake. Bass are trash fish plain and simple! I'm not saying they're not fun to catch, so are pickerel, sunfish, yellow perch ,chub, shiners and other warm water fish. But they are crappy warm water fish and there's little argument on that point. I could care less if they're in some bog-like lake like Cobosecontee or other bogs like that. I just think they should be limited to crappy lakes and ponds and not allowed in pristine waters. They don't fare too well in the deep lakes...thankfully.
O.k. Extremely biased, then. Don't pop a blood vessel!
I realize that things change over time. The infiltration of Bass into the beautiful cold waters of Maine has been one of the unfortunate changes I have had to witness over the last 40 years in this state. If you had fished here as a kid in a state where trout were plentiful in every river, lake and stream you too would be "biased" against the infiltration of undesireable warm water species like bass. Bass have their place. In ponds less than 15 feet in depth. That describes every "lake" south of Pennsylvania.
If people have made "Pro" bass fishing into a sport akin to the WWF and Nascar so be it. Just keep it in the South where it belongs.
When I was a kid we lived on the edge of Lake Massawippi in North Hatley Quebec....that lake is over 500 feet deep in some places and contains sturgeon and Lake Trout, it is certainly not a swamp.....it is also a wonderful lake to fish for Bass.....which were there in great numbers and size back in the 1940's; I think they are native to the lake and not some southern good ol' boys idea. Bass was one of our most reliable protein sources back in those days.....I won't ever knock it.
I realize that things change over time. The infiltration of Bass into the beautiful cold waters of Maine has been one of the unfortunate changes I have had to witness over the last 40 years in this state. If you had fished here as a kid in a state where trout were plentiful in every river, lake and stream you too would be "biased" against the infiltration of undesireable warm water species like bass. Bass have their place. In ponds less than 15 feet in depth. That describes every "lake" south of Pennsylvania.
If people have made "Pro" bass fishing into a sport akin to the WWF and Nascar so be it. Just keep it in the South where it belongs.
My DH feels the same way about a good trout water...no need to explain. Not all bass introductions are from human intervention, though. It has been documented that during the accommodating seasonal conditions waterfowl can actually transport bass eggs from watershed to watershed.
Our pond is plagued with bass that a felon introduced about 5 years ago.
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