I've had the pleasure to fish with close to 70+ different smallmouth anglers in the past 6-7 years.
The best people to fish with have the following traits.
Sense of humour about their failures and bad luck as well as good luck. Can take a joke as well as give it.
Like a cat on the riverbank, they don't rush forward spooking all the fish, or catching the first fish and leaving nothing for the trailer.
More competitive with mother nature and the fish than you.
They bring something to the table observation wise, helping discover the pattern during the day.
Skilled. Interested in pursuing more skill.
Prepared for anything, cool under pressure. Ability to adapt and take on all comers, regardless of the conditions.
Humility.
Sense of adventure, but not recklessness.
Sharing- they know what you've shared with them in terms of places to fish stops with them.
A rare quality indeed.
In this day and age, it's rare for a good thing to stay good for long. I've been through some good people as life catches up to them. To those guys, I raise my glass. Shucks.
The opposite end is the the guy you take, that promises to tell no one. You know the rest of the story, you can hardly drive by without a car parked or pics on an Internet forum. May have taken hundreds of hours to compile, but now you can hardly throw a rock without hitting some twat. Without my finger and big mouth, they're still throwing beetle spins into the kiddie ponds.
If I was getting paid well... OK. Maybe. Maybe.
Then the fishing egos!!! There really needs to be a SIYS article about fishing egos. Maybe that'll come soon.
I don't like these feelings, don't like for something so enjoyable to involve a complicated agenda. Makes me question my public fishing presence, whether there should be one.
The best people to fish with have the following traits.
Sense of humour about their failures and bad luck as well as good luck. Can take a joke as well as give it.
Like a cat on the riverbank, they don't rush forward spooking all the fish, or catching the first fish and leaving nothing for the trailer.
More competitive with mother nature and the fish than you.
They bring something to the table observation wise, helping discover the pattern during the day.
Skilled. Interested in pursuing more skill.
Prepared for anything, cool under pressure. Ability to adapt and take on all comers, regardless of the conditions.
Humility.
Sense of adventure, but not recklessness.
Sharing- they know what you've shared with them in terms of places to fish stops with them.
A rare quality indeed.
In this day and age, it's rare for a good thing to stay good for long. I've been through some good people as life catches up to them. To those guys, I raise my glass. Shucks.
The opposite end is the the guy you take, that promises to tell no one. You know the rest of the story, you can hardly drive by without a car parked or pics on an Internet forum. May have taken hundreds of hours to compile, but now you can hardly throw a rock without hitting some twat. Without my finger and big mouth, they're still throwing beetle spins into the kiddie ponds.
If I was getting paid well... OK. Maybe. Maybe.
Then the fishing egos!!! There really needs to be a SIYS article about fishing egos. Maybe that'll come soon.
I don't like these feelings, don't like for something so enjoyable to involve a complicated agenda. Makes me question my public fishing presence, whether there should be one.
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