the day that mark is referring to we were both actually on the water, fishing 11 miles apart, experiencing the exact same activities in question.
we would talk on the phone and snicker about the 'wrapped boats, the patched up shirts, the thousands of dollars worth of rods reels , and the million dollar attitudes. the reason i say snicker is this....you couldnt have held a gun to these guys heads and get a simple polite conversation out of them.....all the while mark and i are texting pics back and forth of big ol pig smallmouth. as a matter of fact one young man that was doing some gps work for a tournament the next day was polite enough to have a conversation with me....i gave him 2 bags of the plastic i was catching my fish on, im sure given the opportunity mark would have done the same thing. its funny how little we can see with our noses stuck high in the air. get over yourself
if you need to "think' youre better than me....MORE POWER TO YOU....im just here to let you be you.
BUT....when you ACT out like you are better than me? well we just found a problem.
when this is simultaneously happening to 2 different boats that are 11 miles apart there is alot more than coincidence going on here.
i guess its just the mere high concentration of anglers at one time on one lake that raises your chances of running across a poor representative of the sport....and what better high concentration of anglers than a big tournament. kind of like bumping into a pothead at a grateful dead concert....your chances are greatly elevated
tournament anglers, guides, pleasure fishermen, hardcore meat hunters all have their own bad actors, nobody cornered the market on being a jerk. you just dont see enormous groups of meat hunters, or pleasure fishermen so highly concentrated, so yes the tx angler is right out in front in the spotlight. everything about him is high profile, boats, trucks and poor sportsmanship.
as dave stewart said in one post, i have chosen not to fish on certain days throughout the year, holidays, nice weather saturdays, big tournament days etc etc. its just easier and safer to to avoid those high traffic days. one of my fishing partners says he isnt going to let anybody run him off the lake, he has just as much right to be there as anybody. hes missing the point, im not going to do anything i dont enjoy, and i just dont enjoy the crowds.
like mark the overwhelming "vibe" and exposure to the tx anglers practicing on that particular day was completely negative. you would have thought they were competing for a spot in the bassmaster classic, the pressure was causing them to be a person they wouldnt be any other day.
I appreciate ya man.
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Originally Posted by stripernut1
the day that mark is referring to we were both actually on the water, fishing 11 miles apart, experiencing the exact same activities in question.for me it's God, Family, and Friends, I don't let others dictate my "fun", hey, the bait shop is always full but I still go in there even if "the pros" are there. Later my friend.
