Honest question, please honest answer.....

the Ike thread has been hotter than the one about what we all do for a living.

Several have mentioned "our" fits on the water.

OK, now for the honest question, and hopefully the honest answers....

Have you ever lost your temper and threw that kind of fit on the water?



Now granted, none of us were probably fishing for $500K, but this is not Mike's first rodeo, he has fished for huge sums before.

My answer.... NO, although when I was in my teens I would lose my temper and throw those types of fits, I over came my temper by my junior year. Now that doesn't mean I don't still get mad. It just means I control it, it does not control me.

Your turn everyone.... how about it?

Danny

No, I have never let my anger take control of me like he did. Now I have cussed a ffew times though, but I have never, eer broke a piece of equipment over getting PO'd at something, especially fishing.

PS Danny what the heck are you doing up at this hour? I am because of my back and cant sleep. Plus playing poker on line since about 1AM.

Hey Fishhead...

Glad to see I'm not the only one up... LOL

I too have a bad back, but that is not what is keeping me up this night. About every 2 or 3 days I get a real case of insomnia. When I had my job, it was great, I would work all night, and get a ton of stuff done as my phone wasn't ringing off the hook with someone wanting me to either give them instructions on software, or to pull some "very important" sales results and analysis for a "very important" meeting, the very next day. Never understood why if it was so important, I wasn't asked for help till the day prior... LOL

Now some of that did cause me to get PO'ed, but I never showed it. I hung up the phone, then my wife would have to listen to me complain as I worked late into the evening preparing the reports.

Now after being out of work for a while, I might not mind so much.... LMAO

Danny

No

Ike is a joke


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Come on Billy, answer it... have you been on the water and thrown that kind of fit, or just totally lost your temper?

Danny

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON Feb-26-06 AT 09:52AM (EST)[/font][p]guess i will be honest,hell yeah i have lost my temper and broke stuff,with any luck i will be in the same boat and called the same things like ike because i dont wanna be dull and boring,lmao.like ike if i could be like ike

I have gotten pretty upset, but never have broken anything. Did use some R rated language, but when a 6 comes off at the boat who can blame you?

Have I ever lost my temper? Yup, and cussed like crazy. But I never went and broke anything. Equipment is too expensive to go pulling that.

Well I must say a few years back we had a running big fish pot that was up to about 1700 dollars and I had a fish probably in the 8 lb range on and lost him right at the boat due to some bad netting. I lost it. I cursed and threw about 150 dollar rod and reel in the lake. That fish was worth about 3200 dollars in all. So yes i have threw a tantrum on the water. Good thing I had quit drinking like I used too.

I agree with Mr. Shadrap, Ike is a joke indeed...however, the guy must be doing something right, earning a living out of fishing for a living which is what lots of us WISH we could do.

Back to the question...Nope, never have lost my temper when I'm at, on or even remotely near the water...the only thing that has made me lose my temper even briefly is when I've done something really stupid like step on a rod and breaking it when it was laying in the boat when it should have been placed in the storage compartment...