kaelc
Well-Known Member
I've done it, seen people heading out to crabbing and thought about lecturing them about the regs but I stopped. Who the F.... am I? to presume they don't have licenses and a tape measure and know the difference between Males and Females, so I kept my mouth shut.
On Friday at Weirs Beach my 2-year-old son and 75-year-old father-in-law, with a cane, were "fishing" without a lure at Weirs Beach. They were accosted by a guy with a shaved head and a neck tattoo, who grabbed the fishing rod out of their hands, claimed he was DFO and that they could injure and kill juvenile fish. THERE WAS NO HOOK, I had actually just grabbed a buzz bomb and was headed out to go camping after work. When my wife called me, I lost it and drove like a maniac to get there. The guy and the family he was with had left and a great bystander had intervened and retrieved my sons' rod.
My father in law is Asian and my son is 1/2 Asian. My son loves fishing and hopefully won't let the racism of what he saw go down ever affect him. It won't be the last time it happens but if I am there god help me to stay calm.
Thanks to the guy on the beach who supported my family. Wish I could reward him with the Spring my son and I caught today. Rant over, back to fishing, and we are going to limit out our licenses this year!
On Friday at Weirs Beach my 2-year-old son and 75-year-old father-in-law, with a cane, were "fishing" without a lure at Weirs Beach. They were accosted by a guy with a shaved head and a neck tattoo, who grabbed the fishing rod out of their hands, claimed he was DFO and that they could injure and kill juvenile fish. THERE WAS NO HOOK, I had actually just grabbed a buzz bomb and was headed out to go camping after work. When my wife called me, I lost it and drove like a maniac to get there. The guy and the family he was with had left and a great bystander had intervened and retrieved my sons' rod.
My father in law is Asian and my son is 1/2 Asian. My son loves fishing and hopefully won't let the racism of what he saw go down ever affect him. It won't be the last time it happens but if I am there god help me to stay calm.
Thanks to the guy on the beach who supported my family. Wish I could reward him with the Spring my son and I caught today. Rant over, back to fishing, and we are going to limit out our licenses this year!