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I am a young, 23 year old man and already I am confident in saying that I appreciate our nature and wildlife and way of life much more than a lot of people just older and mostly much older than me that should be leading by example and doing their part to preserve a way of life that will not be around for much longer.......I went to the Vedder river this last Monday and watched people fish the pool just below the vehicle bridge...I counted 18 people casting over eachother into a 30x30 patch of water with their huge spin gear, hauling out fish every 10 casts or so........what got me the most is that these guys showed no emotion.....they didn't smile or shout, take pictures, give a buddy a high five, talk about it for the next few hours...nothing, It was just hauled in, cleaned, stuffed in a bag and it was off for the next one...... I found a lure on the bottom that was a ocean fishing size rubber squidlike lure with 2 huge hooks trailing down 2 inches from it.....am I the only person left that wants to catch a huge salmon on the fly?........the river felt more like a competitive production line and less like a day out on a beautiful BC river with the chance of catching the big one.....its no wonder that people everywhere are noticing less and less fish every year........for the rest of my life a great day of fishing will be heading out with good buddies, a flyrod, a pack of wobbly's, getting to that new spot, gearing up, and hoping for the big one, but if not it was a great day anyway.....not sitting on the banks of a river by myself beside a bottle neck hole in the river where fish are resting and hauling them in like its a race or competition......I think that laws and regulations and penalties should all be looked at or created in order to make fishing fishing again...not shooting them in a barrel.....am I the only one?