would you complain if some one offered you a fish?

[johnny ducketts]

Well it happened to me this morning, I was fishing in my usual spot this morning and happened to catch a nice little striper this morning which had sea lice on it, released it and and proceded to fish until the sun came up. A round 05:00 or so another fisherman appeared and proceded to fish on the opposite jetty as me, we struck up some small talk and he said he was looking for a nice fresh bluefish for dinner, he hooked up a few minutes later and had a nice blue. I took my next cast with a 2 oz crippled herring in a blue mackeral pattern and I'm tight. It turned out to be a nice bluefish, now I was just fishing in the morning before work, so I didn't want to keep it, So I said to the guy,"how about seconds" , and my question was answered with "no thanks!" "I can catch my own fish". so I unhooked it and released it, with my nose a little bent out of shape by the remark.

He wasn't rude or a beligerant about it, but it just struck me as odd.

Has this happened to anyone before, and I was just trying to be a nice guy, this ever happen to anyone else?


I guess I shoulda made the title "accept" and not complain