I was on vacation last week down the Cape. I must have a sign on my back or maybe I look like I know what I am doing (little do they know
) anyway I always seem to attract people who are looking for help.....I attract them like flies! I had a guy (an older guy) gray beard, about maybe 55-60 come up to me as I was laying out a few casts and ask me a few questions about "how to fish here". The guy was very nice and I asked him where he was from (upstate NY and did alot of lake trout fishing but never stripers or blues) he had a good looking setup well suited for stripers and blues......probably one of his lake trout rigs.....nice gear, anyway he was tossing a rubber shad and he looked thoroughly bored with it so I offered him one of my 1 3/4 oz. pencils to toss and gave him a quick lesson on pencil poppers as he said he was not familiar with them. It began to get dark and as I got ready to leave I pulled out one of my 1 oz. pencils and handed it to him and told him to keep them both and I wished him good luck fishing!! He was about as thankful as he could be and he truely appreciated my help and the gift! I think I got more out of the meeting than he did....it just feels good to help someone out! I wonder if he had any luck? Hope so!
