I have always filled my children with the sense of the great out doors. They love fishing, camping, and hunting. We take what we can eat and leave the rest. They love it as much as I do.
BUT...times have really changed.
It is easier to catch a fish or bag a deer using a F.....cking cell phone or video game than the real thing. Why go outside and try when ya can do it at a tip of the finger and be a success? Man am I sounding like I am > 50 yrs old? Closer to 50 than 40 but have raised my kids to know the real thing, respect it, and look forward to it. Technology will always out pace even our children, but the values and experience from real life experience can not be replaced. The real-life fish on the end of a line is no equal to one caught on a cell phone. My kids know this first hand...hope everyone instilles the same values.
It is these real life experiences we impart on the younger generations that are the future of our efforts today.
Andy, thanks for being an advocate for all things FW. In the early spring, I brought my younger girls to the trout meeting at Pequest so that they would understand the importance of a great fishery. While they played the games of the future, they also listened and asked many questions on the way home. The future of any fishery is dependent on the interest of its existence.
