Lol, same dog bit me

I quit fishing tournaments about 7 years ago because the fun of just fishing was gone.I didn't fish for 5 years and started back last year and am having a blast just fishing with my buddies.We fish for the fun of it and a release from the pressures of work during the week and we don't have to lie to each other about how we are catching our fish. We actually try to help each out.I lost my best friend in life when we started fishing against each other. The few hundred dollars for first place in a tournament wasn't worth the price.

The way I view it is similar to Mark Perry. I like to help others the same way I get help. I owe everything I have learned in this addiction to about 10 people who taught me everything I know today. So, if I see someone I can help, I do. However, if I get on something really special like I did earlier this year on Fork, I will post some pictures and maybe a short story about it, but didn't include enough detail that anyone would be pounding the area next week. Plus nothing is a secret on Fork anyways. In the long run, I have a very small group of people I will help on certain lakes and they return the favor. Otherwise I post general things I think can help people.

I wish I could link a post from Georgia Outdoor News I commented on but it was deleted. A man posted some pics of some absolute hawgs. He said the spinner bait bite is still on! In the back ground of the pics he had smeared the scenery...understandable. My comment was "what lake did you catch them on?" A buddy of his replied "LOL like he's really gonna tell you that! Then another commented "yeah I laughed like hell when I read that!" So I replied "I'm not asking where on the lake he caught them, just wondering what lake he caught them on" Then many started posting....and the post started to get ugly after I called the guy a dooshe.

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I've never heard of someone not wanting to reveal what lake they were fishing......don't really care....I was jus wondering.....What a doooshe!

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Hahaha what a douche moderator.

I will usually help people if I have info on a lake I am fishing. I used to fish Fork twice a year for a week at a time. On my last day, I would tell someone just getting to the lake exactly where, when and how I caught my fish while there. I like to help and I knew I was not going to be back for a while. My spots would be different when I got back, so why not make someone elses trip better. I have never understood why bass fisherman are so closed mouth about their spots or secret baits. I can understand not sharing if you are prefishing for a tournament or a guide who makes his living fishing their "secret holes". Someone taught us all to fish or we would not be doing it, so why not share what we know to help someone else? I am 63 years old and started fishing when my grandfather took me at the age of two and I am still learning today. None of us know it all, although I have run into a few who think they do. Why not share and make the experience great for all. Just my 2 cents, and I know there are many out there who will say I have lost my mind.

Gene

What broke me of the habit of asking where they are biting,I was fishing a tourn. on Palistine and stopped for gas in Frankston, and asked the old man that came outside to pump our gas in the boat,"where they biting at on the lake, he called me to the back of the boat and said,since you look like a pretty good guy I'll tell you,he said anywhere north of the dam,after getting on the lake,hell the whole lake is north of the dam. I bet he is still laughing about it. Sure broke me of asking.

We are wearing them out on Ray Roberts... That lake is on fire!!!!

You still gotta catch em ,