Obama: Let's Severely Limit Fishing

Ever seen the movie Idiocracy? No, then go get it and watch. It's a hilariously entertaining view of America populated by useful idiots, like Obama voters. Fits the Stalin definition of 'useful idiots', peace jobs and democracy ... Hopey-changers, sound familiar?

The Obama administration has announced that it will accept no more public input for a new federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing some of the nation's oceans, coastal areas, Great Lakes, and even inland waters. Probably didn't like what it was hearing. A point of note, the WWF, World Wildlife Federation is one of the hoax sources for the UN IPCC, see the connections, loony toons all.

Fishing industry insiders have negotiated for months with officials at the Council on Environmental Quality and bureaucrats on the task force. These angling advocates have reportedly come to suspect that public input into the process was a charade from the beginning, according to an ESPN report

I wonder when our Odumboi wants to limit pirate fishing, like the decimation of fish stocks that goes on off the coast of Kenya, Somalia or Indoensia.

White House Wants To End Fishing

A recently released White House document could result in the closures of sport fishing in salt and freshwater areas. Shimano reported:

Feds to 60 Million American Anglers: We don't need you

A recently published administration document outlines a structure that could result in closures of sport fishing in salt and freshwater areas across America. The White House created an Interagency Oceans Policy Task Force in June and gave them only 90 days to develop a comprehensive federal policy for all U.S. coastal, ocean and Great Lakes waters. Under the guise of ‘protecting’ these areas, the current second phase of the Task Force direction is to develop zoning which may permanently close vast areas of fishing waters nationwide. This is to be completed by December 9, 2009.

Dave Pfeiffer, President of Shimano American Corporation explained, “In spite of extensive submissions from the recreational fishing community to the Task Force in person and in writing, they failed to include any mention of the over one million jobs or the 6o million anglers which may be affected by the new policies coast to coast. Input from the environmental groups who want to put us off the water was adopted into the report verbatim – the key points we submitted as an industry were ignored.”

Recreational fishing generates a $125 billion annual economy in the United States and supports jobs in every state according to government figures. Through the Sport Fish Restoration program, anglers have provided more than $5 billion through excise taxes on fishing tackle to fishery conservation and education for decades.

In addition to the economic aspects, anglers lead the nation in volunteer conservation efforts on behalf of improving fish habitat, water quality and related environmental areas. “There was no mention of the fishery conservation efforts which anglers have led for over 50 years in every state – an environmental success story that has no equal in the world”, said Phil Morlock, Director, Environmental Affairs for Shimano. “The Task Force did not make any distinction between the dramatic differences between harmful commercial fishing harvest methods and recreational fishing, even though we spelled it out for them in detail,” added Morlock.

Claiming to be the result of a public consultation process the report states, “Having considered a broad range of public comments, this report reflects the requests and concerns of all interested parties.”

The original White House memo and not surprisingly the Task Force report contains multiple references to developing a national policy where Great Lakes and coastal regions are managed, “consistent with international law, including customary international law as reflected in the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea” - a 300-page treaty the U.S. has never ratified.

“We question what implications there will be for state authority and jurisdiction in the Great Lakes and coastal regions if the U.S. adopts the U.N. Treaty,” said Pfeiffer.

Wavespin Fishing Reel

The DHxL is the latest reel in WaveSpin's lineup and it's target audience is ultralight anglers. Weighing it at only seven ounces, Song told us they did not simply downsize the DH3000, but they started from the ground up to build this reel. Top end drag on this ultralight reel is rated at 24 pounds! Perfect for hard charging saltwater fishing in the 'must stop them now' mangroves. The fact that the smaller size DHxL reel has a graphite body is a big plus for lazy angler saltwater, I'm just saying, not making accusations or admissions.

This inexpensive reel is priced under $100 in the smaller sizes. I generally use a reel the size of Shimano's 2500 for most of my onshore fishing.


The fishing snake is an interesting lure, going to see if I can find some locally and give them a try off the back seawall in saltwater. Not many people know that small snakes and worms are a favorite food of redfish, snook and other denizens of the mangroves.