Are hunting and fishing truly on the way out?

[Sk8man]

It is well worth the effort....my son has been fishing with me since age 2 1/2 ( even ice fishing etc.) and we're still doing it almost 40 years later.

Edited February 7, 2020 by Sk8man

[ri rory]

my grandson at 18 months trolling lake francis in NH,

my son and my grandson at 21 months on a lake in Mass, and

my 25 year old daughter last march 3 months pregnant on lake hiwassie, NC

every minute outdoors will pay huge dividends for their confidence and self esteem and the memories will live longer than we do

 

keep it up folks

we got this!!!!!

Edited February 7, 2020 by ri rory
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[ri rory]

better post some pics of Mama and her fish---she loves to fish

Michele is my angel--thank god

happy wife......you know the rest

 

coach

9lb landlock, 9 lb largemouth, 12 lb red, 8 lb laker, lil tarpon

[whaler1]

Awesome!

[Sk8man]

Very cool! Those Redfish are a blast aren't they? We caught them on light tackle in the salt marshes in South Carolina too. In the shallow water they go nuts

[fishinfreak]

I hope not but electronics are getting harder to compete against.

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[pieman9155]

hunting license sale are down  . the dec said at meeting

 

[Charlie P]

On 2/3/2020 at 6:59 PM, whaler1 said:

Saw that as well. Should be a wake up call for many. I remember taking my kids out of school to hunt and being told it wasn’t an excused absence. I told the school that maybe it should be. Sent my son to school the next day with venison snack sticks for his classmates and the teacher cried and told my son that hunting was cruel.


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One of my son's teachers invited me to come into the classroom and show the kids a turkey fan and explain how they communicated when I told her I was taking him out for turkey hunting.

Who is to blame if kids aren't interested in the outdoors? We can try and blame schools and technology etc but if we are going to be totally honest some of the blame has to put on us.

[bandrus1]

6 hours ago, pieman9155 said:

hunting license sale are down  . the dec said at meeting

 

I think people need to look more into loss of hinting property and the decline in the ability to live in the country due to job concentration in urban areas.

 

Farms where lots of people were given permission to hunt need to sell leases to smaller numbers of people to stay afloat. Downstate individuals have the capital to buy up land and post it where once people could have well paying jobs and live in the country.

 

I think loss of opportunity has a lot to do with it.

[bettieanne]

Maybe if you live in the cities, come on out to the country.... not just weekends... raise your family in the setting we as humans were designed for. Not concrete, iron and ashpault... my boys and most of their 5 to 10 yr old friends are all about the outdoors

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[jimski2]

A better thing of hunting and fishing is the lack of a WiFi service. Now the children are being shut off from their addiction to those button boxes and have to communicate with the present humans, not some electronic deity.