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04-27-2009, 02:24 PM
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M.S.B.A.
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: I live in the Villiage of Hyannis in the Town of Barnstable in the Commonwealth of MA
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Excuse me kind sir, please do not immediately get upset or assume I am here to highjack your spot, tangle your line, spy on what you are doing then run home and post our, i mean your success all over the internet as if it was my information; I have been fishing this spot since my father taught me and intended to fish here all by myself but alas you are here before me so I felt I should at least make the appropriate greeting so that you are not offended in any way shape or form as that is surely not my intention. I will pass by you and find a spot out of your way where there is absolutely zero possibility of my bothering you anymore than I probably already have. Oh yeah, before I forget kind sir, any luck?????
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"It is impossible to complain and to achieve at the same time"--Basic Patrick (on a good day)
 
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04-27-2009, 02:45 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Onset
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That was downright rude. I would rather be acknowledged and lied to, then completely ignored.
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04-27-2009, 11:09 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: warwick RI
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Yeah I hate that question "Any luck" cause if there's not a fish at my feet then the answer is "no" but I am willing to make friends with anyone who's addicted enough to be standing out on some slimey rocks in the middle of the night. Just the fact that we're both out there is something in common.
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still by the firelight
and purple moonlight
I hear the rusted river's call
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04-28-2009, 06:59 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 20,441
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Man, flyvice, you need to take a few deep breaths, get off the steroids, and cut down on your raw meat. And maybe go lay on a couch in some shrink's office for a session or two...I thought the point of getting out there was to relax.
I'm a weekend warrior who enjoys fishing when I can get out there, which means when I'm not at work, not doing something on the house, not playing with the little guy or the dog. Which means I get out there 15 times a year, give or take, for the last 15 years. I bet I have greeted 99% of the fisherman I come across by saying "any luck"? As others have said, it's the fishing equivalent of "how's it goin?"
It never, ever occurred to me that I'd trigger a paranoid response from the lunatic I had the misfortune to come across.
When I'm fortunate enough to get out there, particularly when I'm having any success whatsoever, my blood pressure is so low you wouldn't be able to measure it. If you're that tightly wound in what should be a relaxing situation, how do you cope with real-life stressful situations?
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04-28-2009, 06:24 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: cape cod when my meds r workin right
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flypapervice... lets face it u did yourself....never post what u think unless u plan to get youself shi t on by the shi t tossers....who cares what u think???? i dont and i,m the only one cares ...laugh it up .some night u my need someone to talk to.....
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04-28-2009, 06:32 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by stiff tip
never post what u think unless u plan to get youself shi t on by the shi t tossers....
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INCOMING!!!!!
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"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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04-28-2009, 06:27 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
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He Was Just Saying HI....Geesh 
Lots of Guys do it....."Any Luck"..."How's It Going"..."How ya Makin Out"....Just a way of saying Hi.......Thats all.
Some people actually look at fishing as a Fun, Friendly Endeavor. |
"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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04-29-2009, 06:50 PM
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Here fishy fishy
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Whoville
Posts: 2,266
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By the way, I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance
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04-29-2009, 08:43 PM
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Pete K.
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 2,953
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"WHATS UP" doesnt mean someone wants to know what's directly above your head in the sky where you are standing, just like "any luck" doesnt mean "tell me what youve caught, when, using what, and casting it where..." you follow?
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04-30-2009, 12:48 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Cumberland,RI
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Wow , all this over "Any Luck"?
You can answere or ignore. Maybe he repeated it thinking you didn't hear him. You can answere or ignore a second time.
You acn also respond with a no even if you are having some luck. In fact I can remember when I fished the beaches more during the fall when people could drive the beach , we would actually hide the fish so that we could use the standard answere to that standard question. "Any Luck"?. then a really discouraged sounding "nope", Lying well is a big part of fishing.  Pretty much if I don't know someone who asks , the answere is a friendly ...Nope.
Seems like the only thing done wrong here was to get angry about it. Oh well , we all have our moments. Hope it didn't spoil your trip. |
Saltheart
Custom Crafted Rods by Saltheart
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04-30-2009, 01:03 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,139
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Saltheart
Wow , all this over "Any Luck"?
You can answere or ignore. Maybe he repeated it thinking you didn't hear him. You can answere or ignore a second time.
You acn also respond with a no even if you are having some luck. In fact I can remember when I fished the beaches more during the fall when people could drive the beach , we would actually hide the fish so that we could use the standard answere to that standard question. "Any Luck"?. then a really discouraged sounding "nope", Lying well is a big part of fishing. Pretty much if I don't know someone who asks , the answere is a friendly ...Nope.
Seems like the only thing done wrong here was to get angry about it. Oh well , we all have our moments. Hope it didn't spoil your trip. |
Like I said, I just don't want to come off as a liar, as there was a third person there who saw me catching  . Gotta save the lies for when I'm really backed into a corner  . |
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04-30-2009, 04:59 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: cape cod when my meds r workin right
Posts: 1,412
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all of you TAKE A PILL AND RELAX... I ONE MORE WEEK THE FISH WILL B HERE......
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04-30-2009, 10:55 AM
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Canceled
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: vt
Posts: 13,426
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I think that comparing the ends of the RI breachways to a rock in the surf is a little like apples and oranges. Do people think that if they get to the end of the breachway first they own it? I don't know the right answer or if there is one. There are lots of rocks in the surf, some are better than others, pick another one if someone is on that one. If I think it's worthwhile to be in a rotation I'll go to a breachway and almost always have fun. You usually get what you give on the end of a breachway.
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05-01-2009, 08:07 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 20,441
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Pete F.
I think that comparing the ends of the RI breachways to a rock in the surf is a little like apples and oranges. Do people think that if they get to the end of the breachway first they own it? I don't know the right answer or if there is one. There are lots of rocks in the surf, some are better than others, pick another one if someone is on that one. If I think it's worthwhile to be in a rotation I'll go to a breachway and almost always have fun. You usually get what you give on the end of a breachway.
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I don't mean to beat a dead horse...
But you get the difference between the end of a breechway, and say the end of the East Wall, because someone explained it to you. It's not something that's obvious to a newbie like me.
So if I'm at the end of ONE jetty (say the Quonnie Breechway) and I'm by myself, I have to accomodate others who show up later.
But if I want to fish the end of the East Wall, and someone is already there, he can tell me to "get the %$@# off my rock".
Again, there was some internet tough guy language on this thread. The point is, I'm a pretty reasonable guy, and a pretty smart guy. There is no way I would ever distinguish between the right to call "firsties" at the end of the East Wall but not at Quonnie.
Now that I have been there and asked the question, I get it, and I have no problem abiding by it.
But I'll ask all the experts to understand that at some point in time, they were novices too. If someone is violating some rule of etiquette, it doesn't mean they deserve a beating, it could be innocent ignorance (which it woul dbe in my case). Instead of using the juvenile 'roid-rage approach which many of you seem to fancy, you might want to give me the same lesson that someone once gave you.
No one was born knowing, among other things, why there is a rotation at Quoiine and not everywhere else. Get over yourselves... |
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05-01-2009, 08:23 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Easton, MA
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Jim in CT, you're pretty quick to judge others here based on not knowing the situation. Telling people you don't know to "get over themselves" is pretty short-sighted. I don't know the spot Piemma is referring to, but I'd be willing to bet my life that it's not a spot a "newbie" would be fishing at 2 in the morning. The jetties and breachways attract a lot of newbies and inexperienced people because of the easy access and the fact that they are well known spots.
Question for you. Would you be wading out to a small rock in an unfamiliar and potentially dangerous area in the middle of the night by yourself?
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05-01-2009, 08:37 AM
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Hunting for a 40
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: RI
Posts: 615
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The question "Any Luck" has been removed from my vocabulary. It has been replaced by "Catch Anything %$%$%$%$ers?"
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05-01-2009, 12:09 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 20,441
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fishbones
Jim in CT, you're pretty quick to judge others here based on not knowing the situation. Telling people you don't know to "get over themselves" is pretty short-sighted. I don't know the spot Piemma is referring to, but I'd be willing to bet my life that it's not a spot a "newbie" would be fishing at 2 in the morning. The jetties and breachways attract a lot of newbies and inexperienced people because of the easy access and the fact that they are well known spots.
Question for you. Would you be wading out to a small rock in an unfamiliar and potentially dangerous area in the middle of the night by yourself?
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I don't like this thread, and I have no wish to prolong it. But I'm going to address what you asked. Emails have a tendency to sound harsher than they are intended, and if that's the case, let me apologize...
"you're pretty quick to judge others here based on not knowing the situation"
This thread, and the other one about encroaching, suggested an obvious hostility and paranoia about sharing what is, I'm sorry to break it to you, a public resource. To an outsider looking in (I'm not a close part of this community here), there are TONS of examples of an "us versus them" mentality. It's glaringly obvious that many here resent having to share an admittedly limited, but nonetheless public, resource.
It is that feeling that I think some here need to "get over". If that sentiment doesn't really exist here, I apologize. But I can point to several threads just in the last few days that really suggest that mentality, which again, I don't understand.
"Would you be wading out to a small rock in an unfamiliar and potentially dangerous area in the middle of the night by yourself?"
No, I wouldn't, not one that was unfamiliar. But I do have my spots, and there have been times when guys showed up after me, and I have no problem moving over, or even giving him a cold beer if he's a friendly sort. |
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05-01-2009, 12:41 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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excellent point
quote: Emails have a tendency to sound harsher than they are intended
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if i said it in a harsh tone quickly - as in- GET OVER IT ! 
that makes me quite angry to say the least
if said in a general acceptance tone as in - you'll get over it 
that makes me think that someday i will
if said in the way: your gonna have to get over it... dude.. 
asking you to please have some patience...
that's a whole other deal...
there is no inflection of voice here ........other than smiley's |
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05-01-2009, 02:35 PM
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Canceled
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: vt
Posts: 13,426
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I think this is a rock as opposed to a breachway or a rock that two can share. This is a very nice rock in a very nice place. Pics by Zeno from an old thread. Don't take the internet too seriously.
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Frasier: Niles, I’ve just had the most marvelous idea for a website! People will post their opinions, cheeky bon mots, and insights, and others will reply in kind!
Niles: You have met “people”, haven’t you?
Lets Go Darwin
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05-01-2009, 08:31 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 1,139
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim in CT
This thread, and the other one about encroaching, suggested an obvious hostility and paranoia about sharing what is, I'm sorry to break it to you, a public resource.
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Jim,
This thread was not about sharing the spot. I left the guy fishing at the spot. I just did not indicate there were fish there. It was up to him to figure out that there were fish there. My gripe was the fact that someone wanted me to share information about a certain spot which I did not want to do. It became a back and forth about whether or not "Any luck?" is a greeting or a question of whether there are fish at a certain area. I believe it is the latter. As I was standing on a very specific piece of structure, I chose not to divulge any information to someone I didn't know. If the question had been asked of me in the parking lot, I may have answered that there are some fish around, without giving away the specific spot. Even though the question was generic, the spot was very specific. Got it ? |
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05-01-2009, 08:54 PM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
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“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” – James Madison.
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05-01-2009, 09:02 PM
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Canceled
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: vt
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Quote:
Originally Posted by flyvice11787
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Frasier: Niles, I’ve just had the most marvelous idea for a website! People will post their opinions, cheeky bon mots, and insights, and others will reply in kind!
Niles: You have met “people”, haven’t you?
Lets Go Darwin
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05-01-2009, 09:59 PM
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Geezer Gone Wild
Join Date: Nov 2001
Posts: 3,397
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FOR THE LOVE OF JESUS
WILL SOMEBODY EUTHANIZE THIS #&#*#ING THREAD
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"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.
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05-01-2009, 10:01 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Marshfield, MA
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this thread has run it's course...if it ever had one
I'm gonna lock-er-up.....buh-bye
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05-01-2009, 06:15 PM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
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How do you handle a Rotation on that Rock?
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"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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05-01-2009, 07:53 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Quote:
Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman
How do you handle a Rotation on that Rock?
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You take turns swimming laps out to the rock  . |
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