It use to be people just classified certain types of fishing as "sport fishing" or not. There have always been people who fished with methods which weren't considered sporting. Heck I have snagged,netted,trotlined,and every other kind of fishing you can think of.

The thing about this spider rigging is it's considered by many to be sport fishing.

Now...as a participant in every kind of fishing just about known to man short of using dynamite.

If I hang more than one pole over the side or I troll ....in my mind I am not sport fishing anymore.

But...I am constantly amazed by what goes for sport fishing or hunting these days.

I mean...if I sit out a flock of turkey decoys...and shoot one at 60 yards with superduper shells and chokes. Or automated decoys for ducks and blast them with superduper shells and such...or shoot at a deer at a thousand yards,or electronics that put out sound to mimic fish, etc.

In my old mind and ways that's not sporting either. It may be legal,and accepted,and where the money is,and I may even do it once in a while.... but sporting?

I just wonder what will be the new norm in ten more years.

I mean the state of Missouri just legalized crossbows for deer for everybody. I mean for forty years or more it was not considered sporting except for the handicapped. But now within a year people are asking why you still mess with a regular bow.

Oh well....the one thing I take consolation in is nobody cares what I think about anything....believe it or not that's one of the things about getting older I enjoy. I just kinda do my thing...and watch and listen what everybody is doing knowing I ain't a factor in nothing.

It's sort of like I heard Phil Robertson say one time. " You boys have taken this thing way further than I ever would have".