Thursday, Jul 02, 2009 at 14:09
Phummy what people will believe, if they see it in wiriting (ergo it was published so it MUST be true)!
Mate a
mine in Kiwi land is a fishing journo, and one day in a pique of boredom wrote a fictitious piece about how him n a mate were up a particular stream during the trout season closed for spawning period, just "looking" to see how many big trout were using the stream to spawn, coz they had nothing better to do that day.
Claimed they discovered that the particularly large flounder from the river estuary go upstreanm to spawn in the dead of winter - heaps n heaps of them and hungry as all get out - wrote all about how many they hooked on their fly rods and what a great adversary they were when they went sideways in the winter flow of the creek etc etc - really hammedit up.
Said they took a heap
home to eat and they were much better tasting coz the esturay mud taste washed out in the fresh stream while they were spawning etc etc.
It was a masterfull piece of work - purely fictional of course - BUT - heres the wierd bit:-
It got past the editor - who knew nuttin bout flounder fishing or their breeding habits, and got published.
Next month theres all these fly types up the creek in their waders with fly rods in the closed for trout spawning period, trying to locate the "schools of massed flounder waiting to spawn"....
And the local Fisheries guy was non too pleased at all!
So - the magazine had to print a apology and point out that anyone who knew anything bout flounder ould know they don't go up creeks to spawn etc, and how it was a foctional piece designed to poke fun at the all knowing fly fishing folk in their fancy waders etc.
It worked just a tad too
well for a tongue in cheek piece of fictional writing, designed to show up so many of the self proclaimed "experts".
I must see if I can locate a copy - its a pure masterpeice - BUT it shows how many of us are conditioned from a once a lifetime ago reliable press who double checked their facts, into now blindly believing everything we see in print.
Only believe half what you read, and nothing of what you hear, and the rest is pure unadulterated bull excrement!
Yes - Ol Stu spins a jolly good yarn!
Cheers
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