An open letter to Walleye Central Admin/Members, George McNeilly/ESPN and of course Disney. I am not inclined to include Peta, they don’t deserve the time of day.

It appears that some of the Magic Kingdom’s dust may have settled on a singular post to the WC-General Discussion forum ( Disney / Peta Petition ). Powerful stuff, if it can make a post disappear.

The internet carries a degree of content and agenda that at times might be suspect, in this case I’ll leave the conclusions to those who have had the opportunity to read the missing post and those others that appeared during the development phase.

I don’t take offense (personally) with the action that has been instituted regarding the above happening but I do think that adults have the learned innate ability to arrive at their own conclusions and children need guidance through the maze of information that confronts them from their parents, not third parties.

Now that I know the lay of the land surrounding this territory I will do my best to keep the information I post directly relative to walleye fishing and all it entails. The disturbing thoughts and more provocative items that I post will simply be placed elsewhere..

Thought for the day:

Remember, the strong oak tree in your backyard is just a nut that held it’s ground.

I wonder how long ESPN/BASS/Disney and other affiliates are going to stonewall this issue? They’ll have to come clean someday. In my way of thinking the longer this goes on the more likely the rest of the story will be even more damaging. The petition will run until March and the support is growing on a daily basis. Keep the pressure on.

How can ESPN & Disney deny this? I’ve been told it might be a Pixar deal but Disney is sharing profits on “Finding Nemo”, that’s covered under affiliations.

Peta Kidscard

riverfan, what you state re: ESPN is true as per Bass Fans website: 10/15/2003 According to BASS/ESPN Outdoors communications director George McNeilly: “The Walt Disney Co. did not grant permission to PETA to use the Finding Nemo characters.” Unless something else comes to light, enough said on the matter”.

I have only one question to put forth on the matter. If we decided and publicly stated that we had won the rights to use a corporate characterization such as PETA has done, how long would it be before the corporations lawyers were handing us a cease and desist order?

I personally sought information from Bass Fan, no response to date. We waited a week before publishing the petition – to me sufficient time for Disney to present a statement.

The issue at stake here is too important to sit back and watch – take action, it’s up to Disney to make a statement of denial. Read the petition carefully – you will have a better understanding of the motivation.