Oldsconv your post is music to my ears. DIED and I have been trying to tell folks for a couple of years that GSF are fantastic fighters.
IMHO the primary reasons that most folks don't like GSF is that they are managing for LMB or some other larger predator and the GSF does not produce anywhere near as many youth as do BG (therefore they don't provide enough forage base). In addition their large mouth makes them a higher level predator than say a BG or RES and so they will compete with smaller LMB. Also, for most folks their GSF never get very large. So they consider them a nuisance fish.
Hook a GSF that is over 9 inches and you will have an entirely new respect for them. DIED has them 10 to 11 inches and 1.25 lbs (at last report). I keep saying that a GSF hits like a freight train and fights like a kick boxer on crack but it falls on deaf ears.
It is for this reason and the fact that GSF were being slandered on this website that I was forced to create the GSA. Unlike those hoidy toidy organizations like BISA, we do not collect membership dues. You can keep your checkbook closed.
The GSA membership committee conveyed a meeting at a top secret location in the wee hours of the morning and have approved your membership. Twice per year (more often is encouraged) you must stand at your ponds edge and recite the following pledge:
I pledge to manage my pond in the best interest of the almighty Green Sunfish and protect it from heretical blasphemy.A secret handshake instructional DVD and your decoder ring will arrive via mail shortly.
Although we do not charge membership fees we may ask you one day to perform a selfless act of heroism to promote or protect the almighty GSF. Refusal of this request is not an option.
Also remember you may withdraw your membership from the GSA at anytime however only the GSA can terminate your membership.
Welcome to our most prestigious organization.
