WCW press - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

Will B. · 01-11-2006, 11:44 PM

I greatly admire your ability at La Jolla and you're role in WCW. I admit that I am not much of a kayak yellowtail fisherman at all.

But I am concerned that you were so happy about PAL's article. I know that it must feel personally gratifying to have the attention and the approval of a media article.

However, dont such articles draw lots of attention to La Jolla kayak fishing. Is that what we want? More and more people coming out there? And I know many powerboaters look at this site and follow kayak fishing these days as a guideline for where they should fish(I sometimes wonder if people who have not signed up for WCW should be allowed access to this site).

If you thought that a lot of attention was important so that the public would know that the Northwest corner was for kayakers and should not be classed as a No Fish Preserve that seems a reasonable motivation for media attention.

Sometimes I think kayak fishermen get too caught up in trying to get their personal talents and abilities noticed and approved of. Maybe they forget a little about the Art of Fishing or the future of fishing or the fish stocks or the fishing environment.

My personal feeling is that we have to be careful about media attention. It reaches to big an audience. Maybe some people think there is enough to go around for ever. But I dont think there are many places like Northwest corner of La Jolla.

I know PAL wants to be a gerat fishing reporter and do his job well. I recall he wrote one article for the LOG telling people specifically where and how to catch spotted bay bass in Mission Bay. Months later one of the individuals who helped him write the article said that " We will never see a 100 fish day again in Mission Bay," and that individual blamed it on too many tournaments. But I wonder if the article in the LOG contibuted to this noticible decline.

Please dont take this as criticism. You are the Master I am the neophyte. I am just concerned about this matter and wondering what other people thoughts are about it.

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01-11-2006, 11:44 PM	#2
Will B. Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: La Jolla Posts: 96	I greatly admire your ability at La Jolla and you're role in WCW. I admit that I am not much of a kayak yellowtail fisherman at all. But I am concerned that you were so happy about PAL's article. I know that it must feel personally gratifying to have the attention and the approval of a media article. However, dont such articles draw lots of attention to La Jolla kayak fishing. Is that what we want? More and more people coming out there? And I know many powerboaters look at this site and follow kayak fishing these days as a guideline for where they should fish(I sometimes wonder if people who have not signed up for WCW should be allowed access to this site). If you thought that a lot of attention was important so that the public would know that the Northwest corner was for kayakers and should not be classed as a No Fish Preserve that seems a reasonable motivation for media attention. Sometimes I think kayak fishermen get too caught up in trying to get their personal talents and abilities noticed and approved of. Maybe they forget a little about the Art of Fishing or the future of fishing or the fish stocks or the fishing environment. My personal feeling is that we have to be careful about media attention. It reaches to big an audience. Maybe some people think there is enough to go around for ever. But I dont think there are many places like Northwest corner of La Jolla. I know PAL wants to be a gerat fishing reporter and do his job well. I recall he wrote one article for the LOG telling people specifically where and how to catch spotted bay bass in Mission Bay. Months later one of the individuals who helped him write the article said that " We will never see a 100 fish day again in Mission Bay," and that individual blamed it on too many tournaments. But I wonder if the article in the LOG contibuted to this noticible decline. Please dont take this as criticism. You are the Master I am the neophyte. I am just concerned about this matter and wondering what other people thoughts are about it.