The pecking order

[kcritch]

Originally Posted by briansnat

If you don't practice catch and release, and especially if you use live bait you are the lowest of the low, the "bucket brigade".

Not sure about the pecking order...agree with Matt on the variety is better than just one type.....guess for some it's kind of like Sail Boats and Power Boats in one thinks their way is always best. But I find that is the minority of people and not representative of the general attitude.

However....In my opinion the term "bucket brigade" does not refer to those that do not practice catch and release all the time. Rather it is a term that refers to those who always keep anything and everything with no regard for regulations. If someone is keeping fish within the season, size, limit, and location regulations then I have no problem with that and they are not a bucket brigader in my eyes. I practice catch and release 90+% of the time but I do keep certain fish at certain times cause they is tasty and I'm gonna eat'em. And I even use live bait for certain situations but again rarely. But it's always within regulations and limits. I do not consider myself part of the "bucket brigade" because of that. Again just my take on it so please don't take it as I'm trying to convince anyone to think differently.

[Skunk City]

Fishing to me is about catching quality fish and catching numbers. Whatever technique or gear that is working on that particular day is the one I am using. I value my time on the water so much that I don't want to waste it being "technique close-minded".

[ScowardNJ]

I just think some people are total *******s and believe what ever their way of doing something is the right and only good way to do it. It spans way beyond fishing. Lets go noodling!

[Bicey]

There's only a "pecking order" if you let that kind of talk bother you. Those of us who only get one day a week to fish wanna catch fish that day, so what ever works for you. I hear the term "drag bait" alot and that's what I do 90% of the time and it doesn't bother me at all. If someone who thinks "dragging bait" is lazy and thinks I have no fishing skills....I invite them to come out and see how I fish. Honestly I could give a crap what some guy thinks of me or the way I fish. I'm out there to prove something to myself and no one else!

[Polelock]

I just like to fish.... Give me a cane pole and some crickets on a North Carolina pond,,, I like to fish... Give me an 8wt and morrish mouse on an Alaskan river,, I like to fish.. Troll up some big kings on the big O using a NK spoon in monkey puke,, I like to fish..

Let them peck on the keyboard all they want... Fish the way you enjoy

[Jigman13]

Originally Posted by bicey

I hear the term "drag bait" alot and that's what I do 90% of the time and it doesn't bother me at all.

I seen em'!!!! Sh*t def works!

[Bicey]

Originally Posted by Jigman13

I seen em'!!!! Sh*t def works!

LOL .....We're gonna drag some spoons really soon.

[Jigman13]

Sounds good to me dude.

I learned more last season/this winter than I did in like the 3-5 yrs prior to. Creeping up the ol' pecking order ladder LOL...

[kmaty]

I for one do what it takes no matter species or technique or distance traveled i will drive 8hrs to fish a half hr catch 3o fish and drive 8back to home don't matter i caught fish that is what i set out to do.

[Rybazłapać]

The only pecking order I put any credence to at all is good people over bad people. In this specific case the bad people being the people who fish without licenses or otherwise break the rules. Short of that we're all just trying to catch fish and have a good time, and like the restaurant owner in Muppets Take Manhatten said, "peoples is peoples."