Jane Goodall on trophy hunting...

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by merrylander

We used to collect frogs in spring when the flats flooded but we did eat the legs - delicious.

I have a photo of Dr, Goodall with our granddaughters hanging on the wall of the Playroom.

The fishing was also great around our dock that summer as the easy food from all the frog corpses attracted a lot of bass to the immediate area. Of course in those days I also had no problem with watching an animal struggle on the end of a line with a barbed hook in it's head. So I was off in a number of ways back in those days.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

Of course in those days I also had no problem with watching an animal struggle on the end of a line with a barbed hook in it's head.

Boy! Memories!

The last time I went fishing.... the LAST time....., we were fishing for stripers in the York River in Maine. The bait we were using was live elvers.

As I sat in the boat casting and recasting, all the while torturing this dying animal by repeatedly slamming it into the surface of the water, the magnitude of the obscenity I was perpetrating slapped me upside the head. It completely put me off fishing for the rest of my life.

A similar episode occurred some yeas later. A friend who had a lot of whippets and a few goats found himself with a lot of whippets and a lot of goats.

He asked me to come by and off a couple of goats so that he could butcher them for dog food. So I went over to his place and began walking up to these innocent creatures and plugging them between the eyes. Turned out to be 8 or 9 goats, including one tiny little kid bleating for its mother (whom I had just killed).

I sold my one remaining gun the next day.