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About Tennessee River Fishing
As the
Tennessee River Fishing website grows in both content and membership,
an added benefit will be the large number of like-minded people you'll be
able to share information with, learn from, and get together to float a
stream. By joining, you will almost never find yourself lacking for fishing
buddies. Joining Tennessee River Fishing is easy: all you have to do is register for
the TRF Message Board (click button on your left) and
Presto!!, you are a member!
While getting more folks out on
Tennessee's rivers is a nice goal, I think it is more important to get
good people out there. By "good", I mean people who will
respect limits, pick up litter (while not adding any), and even
practice catch and release once they've got enough for dinner. While
I have no control over the types of people that glean information
from TRF, I believe that this website and the people on it can play
a big role in influencing the way people treat our rivers and
streams. While TRF is not an environmental organization, it
won't hurt to have a large community of people in Tennessee that care about
our rivers who can get together and act if a certain waterway is
threatened.
Now
there are probably a certain number of you seasoned river rats out there who
are wondering why in the world anyone would want to publicize Tennessee's
river fishing. If more folks get out on the rivers, the fishing will
necessarily get worse. I see your point, and undoubtedly there will be some
bad apples who find this website and use it to catch and keep more fish than
they need. I truly believe, however, that most people want to do right, and
Tennessee River Fishing exists, in part, to teach and encourage
people to do that.
In short, if we can get more folks to
enjoy and value Tennessee's rivers, then those people will be more
likely to help protect those rivers if they are threatened. If that
happens, we all win. Now get out there and catch some fish!
Creekstalker
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