I was asked to take someone with me as a partner, normally I fish solo, knew nothing about him and said alright. Well maybe I'm naive but didn't think I had to set rules for gas/oil for the boat, paying entry fees, etc. So here's the deal, after the 3rd tourny we fished together, first time had to ask for his half of entry, 2nd tourny 6.00 short, this last one I prepaid again and the director even told him twice that he owed me and at the end of the day while I was helping with weigh in he just took off. I have never (nor do I expect to) had a dime offered for gas and oil for the boat, we really have not burned that much but now its up to about 50-60.00 total.


Since I am fairly new to tourny fishing I need an opinion, keep him if i get paid what he owes me or get rid of him?

keep or dump? single choice
	keep if he pays
	dump him
Votes accepted starting: 03/15/10 05:50 PM You must vote before you can view the results of this poll.

out of 20 some odd years in bass fishing i got burned once.Some people look at me strange some time because i set the cost up front by telling them how much to pay.Come the morning of the fishing trip i wanna see the cash or we dont leave the driveway.PERIOD.or at least they dont.No one doing me a favor fishing with me.Never been burned since.Now i can enjoy my fishing day.

You should never have to ask someone to give you the money, if there fishin in your boat they should have the common courtesy to pitch in even after paying his or her entry fee whatever the cost is.

I can understand maybe not volunteering to pony up for the gas/oil, etc. But entry fees are pretty straight forward. He'd expect half of the winnings, I'm sure!

No he should help with it all half entry fee gas oil and all I have a guy fish with me an he knows to help cause if he wants to enjoy ur boat he should enjoy helpin

Fishing partners are harder to find than a good woman.

Sift through them and you will know who you want to fish with.

I have had different partners over the years. The partner I have now, we have been togather going on three years. We were friends before we started fishing together, but I can assure you we set the ground rules from the begining. Any partner I have ever had, I made sure the "formalities" got outa the way early on. Never take it for granted, its better to hurt someones feelings starting off then to wait intil you get in a pickle. We both have boats, and rotate them. We have a set amount for fuel, paid before the tourny to whomevers boat is being used. Everything else is split down the middle (including all winnings).

Not sure why you say you understand not volunteering to pay for half the gas and oil. That is all part of the expenses of he trip. If you fish, you should be volunteering to pay. It is up to the person furnishing Truck, boat etc if they accept the money or not but they should always volunteer to pay at least half. Doesn't matter if it is tournament or just fun fishing. Always pay you fair share so you are not a burden on anyone.

They might relize the costs so i make it easy and tell them.Im not charging them depreciation of the boat.My boat has lost 15,000 in 8 years.

I have always fished as a co-boater...The best suggestion is to fill up before you go and when you get back so you know what amount is, then split it. Entrys is a no brainer. I always offer to pay entry in exchange for gas unless its a higher dollar tourney, then i pay for food and ask them what they want for gas. In BFL i have had them turn it down, but i always offered.

BUT, i have had 2 guys try to get thier whole trip covered by me, 1 guy wanted 40 for boat gas and we only traveled 2 miles each way, he got what i decided to give him, 20 bucks. The other guy wanted half his truck gas paid for to GET to a BFL that was 2 hours away, until i said i would pay half his truck gas to get there if he paid half my truck gas for me to get there from 5 hours away.

Expenses are part of fishing, If he wont pay anything i would be vocal about it or dump him, its expensive enough as it is without getting shafted

After three years of setting back reading, I must reply to this post. I have always had a back seat and had two pardners. They never had to ask for anything. The one im with now said he had to get a new tranduer, Ilook at his graf,and hehad a new one. His vtwo bank carger went out, next day he had a three bank charger. No i didnt have two. But I ride and hele him work on HIS BOAT. Same with my other friend. I pay for our food . Like plano basser said boats lose value. Thanks for reading. Melvin

I have fished with many folks that dont like to help out with gas.

I have two regular partners. When fishing with partner #1, we split all entry fees and winnings evenly. We both have a boat and use both boats practicing and rotate during the tournaments, so we each pay for our own gas and oil. This works out good for us and we have been fishing together a long time.

Partner #2 I pay for everything including food and drinks. We then split winnings evenly. We both have a boat and each practice in our seperate boats but we use mine for tournaments. I pay for all gas and oil in both boats. If you haven't guessed, partner #2 is my son. I wouldn't have it any other way.

well the consensus is what I thought and was going to do. If there is ever a next time the rules of the boat will be up front and in plain english. my fault for thinking people just knew to share the expenses, the entry is unexcusable though.

My partners pony up for half of everything. The only complaint i hear is that all my rods have left hand reels. I am loving it.