Thes kinds of responses from Data and BigJ show their lack of undersatnding of "the point". Of course trollers, fly and spin guys are all FISHERMEN! Just like Bowhunters, Front Stuffers, Rifle guys and even crossbow hunters are all HUNTERS!!! But like fishermen .. we are only allowed to use certain methods at certain times. Do the spin guys get upset when certain streams are made fly only? Yes. Do long liners and net riggers get upset when their season are closed and recreational guys still get to fish .. perhaps, but the fact is their seasons were set up to manage the resource .. FISH!
No I fully understand.
His point was that trollers were not fisherman in the same way he and you all feel Crossbow hunters are not BOWhunters.
If traditionalists are flyfisherman, and compounds are spin fisherman, than crossbows are trollers.
Here are HIS words. Notice how he uses the term
fisherman after fly and spin but not after troller. He was trying to say a troller was NOT a true fisherman, just like crossbow hunters are not true BOWhunters. He was being specific not general.
I have to add that he was also being very specific with the classifications as well. As you can see he likens the trad shooters to fly
fisherman, the compound shooters to spin
fisherman and the crossbow shooters to trollers.
If his point was "fisherman" equated "hunter" he would have put the word fisherman after troller. He didn't because he was equating fly, spin and troller with types of bows and fisherman with the type of hunter they were. If you can't see that then you probably will not understand this post either.