Sugarpacket Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 Last night an old friend of mine called me up and asked if I wanted to dip a line in the water and talk about old times. Of course like every good friend I agreed so we headed out to a local spot he picked. We were there for not even five minutes and he said he wanted to go somewhere else so he could set his hook into something besides sticks. We left and went to a spot I suggested. After 10 mins i hooked into a small sheephead (theres no pics since I have no camera and I'm actually typing this on my phone) and he starts to get antsy about 5 mins later i hook in to a tiny channel cat and hes like well its getting late should probably head home. !!! i had asked him oh a dozen times if he wants me to rig up his line with something differrent he was tossing a 6inch plastic minnow on a snell hook attached to a bobber. Before anyone says anything the guy never gets out fishing not sure if he really knows how and so being a spot i know pretty well I was offering advice and he said he didnt carif he caught fish he was just glad to get out... I could tell he didn't like i was catching fish and he wasnt but refused to take my help! I'm not sure why I wasn't pushing just trying to offer some advice! so if anyone out there can give me an opinion on what went wrong it would be appretiated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greencoachdog Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 First of all, he was a man!... and we men don't take advice from women on such manly sports as fishing and hunting! He was throwing a manly bait and wanted to catch a manly fish!!! ... he was probably also embarrassed that a mere woman was kickin' his in such a manly sport !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twocoda Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 To answer the question of what went wrong...you should have had a bet with him for the FIRST FISH /BIGGEST FISH and MOST FISH @ 5 bucks for each category...sometimes it puts a little more sting into the situation if he isnt going to listen to your advice... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillM Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 Just admit it was Rich, we'll all understand :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greencoachdog Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 (edited) To answer the question of what went wrong...you should have had a bet with him for the FIRST FISH /BIGGEST FISH and MOST FISH @ 5 bucks for each category...sometimes it puts a little more sting into the situation if he isnt going to listen to your advice... Had he taken her advice, and other men found out, he would definitley be considered less manly among those men!!! Edited June 14, 2009 by GCD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarpacket Posted June 14, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 first of all let me just say thanks for the laughs second of all you should all know rich would be the one saying basiclly what GCD said put in his own words on here in a report lol jk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glen Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 You really now how to brake a man down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bly Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 Sugarpacket, I have to go with Glen on this one That being said, a REAL man would have taken your advice and understood that it was about having fun and catching fish and not worry about his ego. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twocoda Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 IF a woman or child or man ( for that matter) outfishes me then i consider it a compliment that i taught them well....if i take someone fishing to one of my spots and they dont catch anything ( under my instruction) then i feel bad.and write it off to the fish having lock jaw...but if they dont heed the advice i give them ...then stupid is as stupid does...i dont mind spending their money when they lose the bets...( usually in the pub ) rubbing more salt into their broken pride... IF i was you ...i would be rubbing salt into the "man" like a man ( even though you are a "woman") Its all part of the fun of "The Game" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Cliff Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 I took Sue fishing twice, she outfished me both times; I never took her fishing again!!!!!! Solved that problem! As for your situation..... I think there are deeper waters involved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeh Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 you should have told him when you go fishing everybody uses a different bait and when one is working better then everybody switches to the more productive bait , at least thats how I do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kickingfrog Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 Men, in general, don't take advice well, no matter the source, the subject or the manner it is presented. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigugli Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 That were no man you were fishing with. Can you say "child" For years my fave fishing partner has been my mother, and she has managed to regularly hand me a platter of humility over the years. For that matter, so could my Gram You just keep on shining and be the best you can be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Cliff Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 You just keep on shining and be the best you can be. Now that is the best advice that anyone could ever give you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solopaddler Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 Perhaps I can add some insight into the male psyche. The attributes an angler needs above all others, if he is to be consistently successful, are skill, and know-how, and it is these that every angler thinks he possesses from the day he commences to fish. No amount of logic will ever convince him that he is not a master angler, even though he returns from the stream for days on end without having caught, or even seen, a decent fish. He has all the excuses of a thousand generations of other non-anglers to fall back on. The weather was too hot, or too cold, the stream too high, or low. The wind was from the wrong direction. The barometric pressure was at fault, or the water wasn't warm enough or cold enough. He forgot his solunar tables. The flies he bought at Pollack's were lousy; next time he'll get his flies from Wilson's. A man may admit he's a poor talker, that his social graces are few or absent, that he cannot dance as well as an uncoordinated giraffe. He will cheerfully agree that, as an athlete, his best event is the standing broad grin. Most will admit to being poor poker players and that checkers and chess baffle them. But NO man will admit to being a lousy lover or a poor fisherman. Why is this? Because man, in order to survive, has to be incurably optimistic in these two areas. It's like the story told in the army in World War 2. If an officer lined up 10 men, went the tale, and told them that he had to send them on adangerous mission in which nine of the ten would be killed, each man would look at the others and say to themselves, "Well I'm sure gonna miss those guys." The only anglers who will admit to not being all they should be as fishermen, oddly, are the ones who are actually very good, and who study and work to continually improve as well as broaden their horizons and seek out new experiences. Yea, verily, the fisherman is a strange creature, and not like other men. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry2Rs Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 Well said Solo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twocoda Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 yes very well said solo....now if you typed all that out on your cell phone i would be very highly impressed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuNnYoOzE Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 the guys a tool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuNnYoOzE Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 I'll take advice off the back of a sugar packet! ( figuratively speaking) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camillj Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 ok .. so I am guessing there was no happy ending ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted June 14, 2009 Report Share Posted June 14, 2009 Funny you take other guys out fishing and they catch nothing. I take other women out... and well... they catch goldfish. (note the trademark flower behind the ear) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spiel Posted June 15, 2009 Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 even though he returns from the stream for days on end without having caught, or even seen, a decent fish. Wow, does this actually happen to some anglers? I can't begin to imagine the shame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sugarpacket Posted June 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 hey bbr maybe you should show them the difference between a garden pond and a lake! lol jk thats a sweet gold fish you should have put it in a tank for splenda! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MillerPhoto Posted June 15, 2009 Report Share Posted June 15, 2009 he said he didnt carif he caught fish he was just glad to get out... I could tell he didn't like i was catching fish and he wasnt but refused to take my help! I'm not sure why I wasn't pushing just trying to offer some advice! so if anyone out there can give me an opinion on what went wrong it would be appreciated! Seems more like he was impaitent and he did care about catching fish... Seems more like he just wanted to catch fish then anything else.. just a typical stuborn man refusing to ask for directions or help and didn't want to tell you that he really wanted fish.. Am I stuborn.. at times.. but would never react like he did I am one that loves to fish and really doen't care if I don't catch anything.. this past saturday.. 11 Hours.. Rice Lake, Trent Severn Lock 6, and Murray Canal... Not even a bite! But i enjoyed every minute of it! Would of been nice to catch some fish.. But its the time spent in nature that I love the most.. and yesterday.. 6 Hours at Murray Canal.. couple little bites.. but that was it.. skunked again.. Doesn't get me upset, or irriated or anything.. And other were around catching fish.. Most using bottom feeder rigs with worms to catch pike... But i just prefer to use what I got.. and most what has worked in the past.. Some days are good, some bad.. But like most people know.. A bad day of fishing is better then a good day at work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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