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About SCRF
As the South Carolina River Fishing website grows in both content and
membership, an added benefit will be the large number of like-minded people
you'll be able to share information with, learn from, and get together to
float a stream with. By joining, you will almost never find yourself lacking
for fishing buddies. Joining South Carolina River Fishing is easy: all you
have to do is register for the SCRF Message Board (click button up top) and
Presto!!, you are a member!
While getting more folks out on
South Carolina's rivers is a nice goal, I think it is more important to get
good people out there. By "good", I mean people who will
respect limits, pick up litter (while not adding any), and even
practice catch and release once they've got enough for dinner. While
I have no control over the types of people that glean information
from SCRF, I believe that this website and the people on it can play
a big role in influencing the way people treat our rivers and
streams. While SCRF is not an environmental organization, it won't
hurt to have a large community of people in South Carolina that care about
our rivers who can get together and act if a certain waterway is
threatened.
Now
there are probably a certain number of you seasoned river rats out there who
are wondering why in the world anyone would want to publicize South
Carolina's river fishing. If more folks get out on the rivers, the fishing
will necessarily get worse. I see your point, and undoubtedly there will be
some bad apples who find this website and use it to catch and keep more fish
than they need. I truly believe, however, that most people want to do right,
and South Carolina River Fishing exists, in part, to teach and encourage
people to do that.
In short, if we can get more folks to
enjoy and value South Carolina's rivers, then those people will be more
likely to help protect those rivers if they are threatened. If that
happens, we all win. Now get out there and catch some fish!
Creekstalker |