If ...............

you was windmilling crappie and destroying the serenity of calm foggy waters early one morning and a guy was spider rigging not far away and not getting a single bite .
Would you try to help him ketch fish or just keep on ketchn and ignore his dilemma is the question ?
I tried my best to help him and not once but twice he ignored me even though I seen him jump a few times when I slapped slabs back in the water . I know he could hear me as you could hear a pin drop out there and only looked up at me 1 or 2 times and never when I was speaking to him ?
So is it me or is it him or is it pride or stubbornness or what ? I watched him for quite a while and he never even touched a rod ,he just kept his eyes on them like a hawk for the most part . When I was on number 27 he put up his tackle and headed north on the lake and I never saw him again .
And it wasn't like there was anyone there but us ?
I guess maybe it was the fool on the hill taking selfies and doing video and still photos of baits and such that slowed up our interaction possibly ? :crazy:
I promise this , if I was in his shoes I would have trolled over and asked about 14 to 1,000 questions for sure if the guy on foot was trying to help me ketch some and slinging fish .:banghead
Remember this well yawl i will try to help you ketch fish if i can …
and KABOOM is the word btw :highfive

Possibly he was taking his pet minnows for a swim and didn't want to be bothered. :dono

Stubbornness on his part for sure. Maybe he just kept saying to himself "it will get better" and it never did. Darn it...I'm gonna do it my way......lol.
Anyway KABOOM as usual for you my friend!!! :highfive

Maybe he’s hard of hearing, or had his hearing aids out because of how noisy they are flying down the lake?
I would’ve been over asking 1000 questions.
He could also be hardheaded!


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Sounds like his pride got in the way. I am like everyone else, I would have eased over and listened to any advice you were willing to give. I consider myself a good fisherman but I also know that there is more that I don't know compared to what I do know.

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You prolly shoulda taken the orange Halloween mask off. That might have helped.

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I would have hollered over and destroyed the serenity.. "Dude, what color you using?"!!!

Sounds like a "one method Pete" to me. Worst affliction known to fishermen the world wide.

I've been that guy before. I've fished minnows on floats in tree tops and had guys pass by casting and catching a few here and there. But they never offered any help or advice is the difference here. Back then I wasn't set up to fish that way anyhow. If he comes back again, break the ice. Offer him a PB&J. I know I wouldn't turn that down.

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You prolly shoulda taken the orange Halloween mask off. That might have helped.

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I wasn't masked I swear :Rofl

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I wasn't masked I swear :Rofl

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AHA maybe that was the problem !! :Rofl

like someone said earlier, he might have been hard of hearing......I have 20% in left ear and 50 in right and take my hearing aids out when in the boat...I would have ask what you were doing. sounds more like hardheaded...

it might be a combination of the things , I do know some folks that just wont ask no matter what or take advice either .
but I also know some that have hearing issues too . then there are some that have listening issues as well .
I imagine if he stayed busy at the lake like he was doing he ended up getting into them at some point .
when I went to the north end of the lake later the bite up that way was better than the south end where I saw him .
of course some times there are those days when even if you do everything the other fella is doing the darn crappie still wont cooperate .
been there and done that many a times myself

I agree with everybody else, if you had hollered at me with advice, I would have been over there asking for more. Heck, I probably would have beached the boat and fished with you if you would let me. I still got too much to learn.


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He was probably waiting for you to leave and stop fishing the brushpiles he had put out.

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I like to talk to people. Much like ketch, I'll offer advise and try to help a fellar out, even more so if they got kid(s) with em trying to catch fish.
I've encountered others at ramps and passersby that won't hardly speak much less have a friendly chat.
To each his own.

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He was probably waiting for you to leave and stop fishing the brushpiles he had put out.

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:Rofl I put the pile out I was on , that much I know for a fact :Rofl