fishing, a religous right?

[trout chaser]

Here's a link to an article in the Vancouver Columbian. The gentleman is deeply troubled.

http://www.columbian.com/news/localN...6news32264.cfm

[fineline]

He and more than two million americans are at risk and tragedy is knocking at the door. I hope he gets the help he needs and finds peace regardless how strange his actions are.

[MetalHead]

He and more than two million americans are at risk and tragedy is knocking at the door. I hope he gets the help he needs and finds peace regardless how strange his actions are.

Amen Brother.
To most of us this night fishing closure is not a big deal but Mark is fighting some major demons and this is a just one more upheaval in a his life that he has to deal with.
Hopefully he can find some stability and peace.

[yankemnbankem]

They need to give him special priveleges. It wouldnt hurt anything and he could be made a night watch so to speak and give him a cell phone and his pay would be....... Fishing! He knows he has problems....hes found his drug (fishing)..... he could benifit society this way.

[Irish Pennant]

They need to give him special priveleges. It wouldnt hurt anything and he could be made a night watch so to speak and give him a cell phone and his pay would be....... Fishing! He knows he has problems....hes found his drug (fishing)..... he could benifit society this way.

Yeah, They could call it "The Da Fishy Code".

[Phager]

They need to give him special priveleges. It wouldnt hurt anything and he could be made a night watch so to speak and give him a cell phone and his pay would be....... Fishing! He knows he has problems....hes found his drug (fishing)..... he could benifit society this way.

I'm going to have to respectfully disagree with you here. In what way does a mentally unstable person, who admits to being unreliable with taking medications, deserve the right to earn special dispensation that the rest of law abiding society does not get?

Don't get me wrong, I can commiserate with his plight; I have been diagnosed with clinical depression, and there are definitely times that I feel that a day on a lake is far mor soothing then my medication or counseling, but I certainly don't stop taking my medication because of it. That's just not responsible.

And in that vein, this gentleman certainly doesn't strike me as responsible. What's to stop him from entering one of his depressive phases and decides that his promises to police the river aren't worth the effort anymore, perhaps even going as far as becoming one of the "problem people" referred to in the article.

Of course, this is just my personal opinion, and anyone is free to disagree with me :smile:.

Pat

[yankemnbankem]

giving him a gun..............THAT would be a mistake

[garyk]

The posted comments that follow the article actually point to a more interesting and noteworthy story to anglers of WHY the the river was closed...which seems primarily because of animosity between landowners and anglers.

[FastActionRodTip]

that combo of bipolar and manic is scary..yeterday in the Columbian was a story of a bipolar woman who stabbed her infant to death and exhibited much of this same kind of behavior

[MetalHead]

The posted comments that follow the article actually point to a more interesting and noteworthy story to anglers of WHY the the river was closed...which seems primarily because of animosity between landowners and anglers.

Once again the paper got it wrong, there are two homeowners who have a problem with anglers. One thinks its his own private fishing hole and the other just built a new home at the traditional access point. The real reason for the night closure was to cut down on snagging of summer steelhead when the low flows trap them. So rather than spend some time enforcing and addressing the real problem they came up with a night closure which wont even slow the snaggers down. They will just be breaking 2 laws instead of 1.