Uh oh, battle of the greybeards. Actually quite a coincidence that DaveR is the author. I'll save it for the end to explain.
Fly fishing is nearly religious to some people and facts used to sway them are not necessarily persuasive to them. This is not illogical. The logic terminolgy is how I happened to characterize it. It might be stubborn, or it could just be that the weight given to the parts of the whole do not jive with the weights assigned by others even though the facts are the same. We see this all the time, especially on hot-button issues such as stocking over wild trout, spot burning, etc.
I don't expect to convince here I was just reporting something. Nor do I have any microdissections of the values and internal arguments anyone made to come to their view.
DaveR wrote:
To say that holding a view which is supported neither by fact nor logic is still very powerful is true only for the one who holds the view. To believe that it is sufficiently powerful to sway the thoughts and actions of others could be construed to be misguided at best.
I am fairly sure if you take another look at what you wrote there, you'll recognize that many chapters in the history of western civilization spring from precisely what you seem to be arguing against--unless I am misreading it.
Ok now the more interesting stuff.
So last night I was flipping through a 1989 issue Trout magazine, which had a series of stories on streams throughout the country.
Obviously I flipped to the PA section. One of the stories was about Slate Run on July 4 after quite a bit of rain in other watersheds.
The anglers stumble across a rattlesnake, though one of them doesn't notice the rattling. What he did notice was one Dave Rothrock setting a world record for, and I am checking now for accuracy, "the standing high-jump." DaveR is the author, and it is funnier in his telling.
