Kids and opening day :

It is just as easy to have a young kid learn to hate fishing or fish in an un sportsmanlike manner as it is to have them fall in love with the sport.


Think about all the acts of poor sportsmanship these same kids get to witness first hand on opening day : Drunks,fights,litter,snagging,releasing dead trout so they can keep a bigger one, ect...............its not a good example for these kids to follow but they see the "other guys" doing it ,so it must be okay.Right ???

opening day needs to be a tradition of the past.

and for what it is worth the DEP did a great job stocking this year ,some great trout have been caught already this week.