What This Site Is All About
I want to tell you something that happened to me. A few weeks ago I posted on someone's thread that I had not fished hair jigs since my mother and father in-law, from Delhi, LA, had gotten out of the business. A day or two later a man, I just call him Mr Ray for privacy sake, sent me a private message and asked me my real name and who my in-laws were. I sent him a message with the information he wanted and also told him that the last D & P jigs that I had were stolen about 19 months ago when a thief liberated me of all of my fishing tackle; rods, reels, and tackle box. A couple of days later Mr Ray sent me another message telling me that he had some of those D & P jigs and that he was going to send me some of them. You have to understand that my father-in-law taught me to jig fish with hand-poured, hand-scraped, hand-painted, hand-tied jigs that he and my mother-in-law made. My father-in-law did everything but tie them and my mother-in-law tied them. Those jigs were a part of my history with my wife and her family and I was devastated when they were stolen from me. Well yesterday, 2-12-11, I received several dollars woth of D & P jigs from Mr Ray. I, now, have a part of my history back and everytime I catch a fish on one of them I will remember his kindness. I can never thank him enough.
That, my friends, in my humble opinion, is what this site is all about; sharing information so we can all become better crappie fishermen and women, and building friendships with people that we may have never met that , hopefully, will last a lifetime.
I don't think this site is about what we call the fish we catch or what we call our site or whether we post pictures or not; all of which have been "hot" topics lately. Seeing some of those comments makes me want to come here less and less often. Let's just get back to what, I think, the site is about and what "Slab" created it for to begin with.
My humble opinion. I hope that I did not offend anyone with this post.
A slave to the Master, Bro. Lavelle Spillers.
