How many people have you invited to go fishing?

[Bob La Londe]

How many people have you invited to go fishing?

A few?

Ok, how many new people?

Ah, there is the rub isn't it?

Fishing, hunting, and trapping along with many other outdoor activities are under constant assult by "antis." In the past people like us who enjoy the outdoors have simple outnumbered the anti crowd and many of them dismissed them as whackos and crackpot extremists. The simple fact of the matter is that they have had an impact on the things we love to do and they have increased in numbers.

They probably won't eliminate sport fishing in our immediate future or even in our lifetimes, but their efforts can be seen and felt. With propoganda on billboards and even in our schools we may face a future where our grand children or our chidren may not have the opportunity to go fishing if they want to.

So I ask you again, "How many new people have you introduced to the sport?" What have you done to help make them an enthusiast? Interested enough in fishing to fight to preserve it.

[Schneider Fishing]

4 people who have never been fishing before. And they all caught fish.

[Bob La Londe]

Yer a good man. I wish everybody I ever took fishing caught fish. Most do, but sometimes...