http://www.striped-bass.com/vbulleti...&threadid=3288 ...the reference thread.
John I hate using this message board to expose someone, but in this case I feel I must.
Not long ago a member of this board was complaining about people not responding to PMs and not sharing things. After reading his post, and being from the Fall River area, I sent Ed (FlyFisher) a PM asking him about his interests in Fall River. He replied by asking to come fishing with me. I really enjoy helping people so I offered him some help. I offered to meet up with him and try to put him on some keepers as he said he hadn’t caught one in quite some time. Well the other night I took Ed (FlyFisher) to a couple of spots that I thought would be producing keeper size fish, and after leaving the first spot with no luck…we headed to another spot which put Ed (FlyFisher) on to his first keepers of the year. But before we started fishing, we needed HERRING!!…
…SO….
…We headed to a local run and bumped into Goose. He was standing near the outflow of the run and kindly made room so that I could also get some herring. We spent quite some time there, as the herring were not cooperating much that night. Due to the fact that “Ed” and me came a bit late… Goose offered us most of his herring. (Great guy, that Goose!!
)…I invited him to join us but he had other plans. We left the run and proceeded to fish with the above results.
…Last night, as I had posted in the “Weekend Plans” thread, I took my father hunting for some stripers. I headed to the same run as the night before and bumped into Redcrabber, another great S-B member
. The run was just as dry as the night before, so Red kindly offered my father and me some herring so that we could start fishing and possibly get into some stripes. As the weather got nastier I decided to take my father to a more “out of the nasty” spot. I headed back to the outflow of the run to try and catch some herring for my next spot. There I found a man trying to catch herring. Being courteous, I asked the man if there was room for another person near him, and he said …"
NO!…I don’t see how that’s possible …"…
so not to make a scene, as my father doesn’t come out often, and not to deter him from coming out again…I moved a little downstream from him not knowing who he was at the time.
…Come to find out, this is the same man who was standing by, watching me and Goose the night before trying to catch herring to try and put him on fish~(two people in that same spot that on this night, he claims there’s no room for!!)~ The same man who complained about people not “sharing” and not being helpful. Ed, you knew there was room for two people you seen it done the night before!!...yet
you wouldn’t
share a spot that I showed you, the thing you complained so much about on your post and it appears you’re the guilty one! Ed, I didn’t know you but took you in, showed you some spots, got you into some fish…and that’s how you behave toward the locals? If I’d a known that was you at the time…(nah, I’m not going there from behind a keyboard) I’m sure we’ll meet again!
…The meaning of this thread is to open the eyes of other caring and sharing board members who may have wondered about “helping” someone out and hesitated to do so. I learned a valuable lesson from you Ed, (the one thing I thank you for!)
YOUR ALL DONE WITH ME!!!
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As petty as this seems, I felt I should give you truth about Mr. Ed!!!
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