The current trend in bass fishing and my life is to have fun., the slime coat can be breached by touching it to plastic if the palstic is noit sufficiently lubricated, but this is not the point of my. post.,

The idea of comparing a mount and a fish to be eaten, which is totally ethical , as ethical as hunting to eat , is the kind of semantics that kind of put discussions like this off the wall.

I did not get that from your website, you posted that picture right here, within days of this picture , on another thread, in FISHING RODS< REELS AND LINES, on a thread about what line to tie a jig with, that is why i thought it was funny. I was not being serioous and was teasing.

I catch and release, many of my friends fish for the table also. I do not think the bass in the frying pan should be in the mixture at all, after all the origianl idea of fishing was to provide a food source.

These are matters of choice based on how each fisherman feels, the statement to never lay your fish down next to your rod, was made rather strongly by you, then you posted a picture of you doing pretty much the same thing, it's just fishing and I thought it rather funny that such a strong statement on one thread was followed by a picture of the same thing being done on another thread. The smiley at the end of the post, kind of shows, with the rolling eyes that there was more than a pinch of teasing here, and i really don't give much care how anyone holds their fish I don't think it's too bad,

PS I did not know you had a website, here is the link to the post you put up on the other thread with the fish laying next to your rod, just like Paul's picture on this thread. None of this was to antagonize and I am not here to argue, I was poking fun at something, that was very coincidential.

http://www.bassresource.com/bass_fishing_forums/YaBB.pl?num=1221598834/all

DOn't sweat it - I'm sorry, was having a bad day and took it out on one post.  Read through the pissiness, and there's still good info in there.

We are cool and belive me I have my period a few times a month. I have been working on being better here. I remebered you from another forum and talking drums with you. It's all good in the hood.