Brody Henderson claims that the nine-foot fly rod is the most common length he uses.

“Yeah, it's what you're going to put in your client's hands every time. Unless you're fishing like some teeny little stream or something like that, right?”

Bow fishing for carp as a means of population control is ineffective and does not serve as a meaningful conservation tool.

“Shooting cart in the the Great Lakes, you are not helping anything. You're not hurting anything.”

Management of native fish species that have historically been labeled as "rough fish" should shift toward sustainable regulation, such as bag limits and restrictions on want and waste, rather than unr

“So I think if we can get past the sort of human construct of this game fish, this is the valuable one and this is not the valuable one and just look at a base level. Let's apply what we do to duck hunting to fish. You have to be able to tell the difference.”

Nate Mason admits that fishing is his worst trivia category.

“What do you think your worst vertical is? Fishing is your worst.”

He believes boat captains are generally dishonest or unethical, though he notes there are some good exceptions.

“captains are [ __ ] cooked criminals and [ __ ] there's a lot of bad people out there boat captains”

He notes that the IFQ system has successfully achieved consolidation and increased accountability within the commercial fishery.

“The IFQ system did exactly what it was set out to do, which was consolidate and make the fishery accountable.”

The fishing industry believes that professional livelihoods should be prioritized or treated at least as equally as the hobbyist pursuits of recreational fishermen.

“I've always suggested that a man's livelihood should, you know, at least be treated equally, if not more preferred, than another man's hobby.”

John Moore believed that the longline equipment he discovered was part of an illegal and subversive fishing operation.

“This looked like something very illegal and subversive going on.”