Any luck?

[Jim in CT]

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?

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.