I’m thinking there’s some kind of shadow organization behind it all; some dotCom wunderkind with half the assets of the planet – some heiress with a “mad on” – some sheik or warlord sitting on a mountain of precious resources, owning enough periodicals and media outlets to wage a Jihad against anglers.

Today’s headlines are just one salvo among many..

Hitler’s favorite meal was trout.

There’s a couple dozen Bond movies with sinister organizations whose existence is enmeshed with crackpot scientists, egoists, and semi-evil women with massive breasts. World domination or “nuking everyone” is a prevalent theme, followed only by the “spaceship behind a comet” snuffing of life on the planet.

GM is “angling” for a bailout.

What bully would have the assets, inclination, or where-with-all to conduct a war-to-the-death with fishermen with only them throwing punches?

Are you guys a bunch of bottom feeders – and what sin did we commit to earn this indignity?

My youth taught me to expect sinister; back then it was the warmongering industrialist apparatchik that spawned most of the evil, but government is broke – so it can’t be them…

A “Trout Pout” is an unimaginable crime.

Something horrible is at work and we’re sunning ourselves like fat arsed Carp unaware of the Osprey’s speedy descent.