Hey guys....this has been on mind since last weekend and I would like to ask your opinion on this matter. I fished a tournament with a "friend" of mine last year and did pretty good in that so called tournament with him. He even contacted me about 2 weeks ago and said, " Why ruin a good thing....we are going to fish this upcoming tournament togethor...right? " A week goes by....I see him post a few things about going with some well known amd frequent members from here to lakes that are not holding tournaments on for that same weekend. To make a long story short....what do you think of this matter? After he said...lets fish this togethor 2 weeks ahead...knowing which day it will be held on. ANd come to find out....he posted information about his travels for "fun fishing" over that seem weekend. ARe most anglers "MAJOR FLAKES"? Cause I know...if I tell someone " lets fish this tournament togethor since we did so good in it last year...and then NOT hear a word from him still. Cant even have the decency to call and say...dude I dont have the money to fish it or hey dude....Im a just major flake like most. Just curious on thoughts.

Really need more info to make a comment on your situation. Just wondering, Is he one of those guys that expect to fish for free?

Tournament partners have to have a tight relationship. One of the partners cannot be jumping around and doing other events without the other. It is my 2 cents, that if you want to win you both have to work at it. You have to always look to the upcoming event and prefish; seperate is best causing double expenses. Two boats on the water looking is better than one. A partner like this is very difficult to find. One of them doing all the work will not get the job done.
You are in the process of looking. I suggest you keep looking for a partner that will work at it as hard as you will; then start find tuning that tight relationship.

Couple of questions first. Have you tried to contact him and he's not returning your calls/emails? Or, are you just sitting back and waiting for him to contact you?

Have you asked him about his posts? Even if just by responding to his posts? Maybe he made a mistake or is he thinks the tourney is a different weekend.

My advise is a little bit of communication would go a LONG way in clearing this situation up.

Give him a call.

On a similar note, I've been fishing a couple tournaments with a friend of mine. The first tourney we fished together he took a big chunk out of my boat windshield, told him he needed to replace it, said he couldn't for now, that was about 3 months ago, and it still hasn't been replaced. Now last weekend we fished a tournament out of Lake LBJ, this time he broke my $200 crankbait rod. He's refusing to replace either the rod or windshield, and when I told him unless he replaced both he was done fishing tournaments out of my boat. He's threatened to hurt me physically and still will not pay for either, says I'm in the wrong to expect him to pay for it. What do y'all think?

Man with partners like these you need to take 2 weeks off. Then sell your boat! Both of you.

Take him one more time, find a tree out in the lake chunk his but? out, break his rods and leave him there!

Oh by the way ,He ain't your friend. He is a user!

wow
push him out of the boat for real

Man with partners like these you need to take 2 weeks off. Then sell your boat! Both of you.


<CHASINHAWGS> Only way you will actually place in a tournament if everyone would sell their boat and take a couple of weeks off huh.

That could be the case but at least I don't get culled for "FUN Fishing"

Man O Man, sounds like finding partner now a days is worse then finding a wife. I mean are alot of these younger guys just REAL FLAKES and A-Holes. I mean I had the same partner for 12 years, but I moved, we were like an old married couple, and I got him into fishing tournaments. I Miss Him alot

partners are supposed to be 50/50.

In general good fishing partners are hard to find. They're not found over night but in my opinion it takes years of friendship to form a "fishing relationship"

@ daniel1056. Naw thats not wrong asking someone to pay for it cuz if someone broke something on my boat or my equipment they would be paying for it and same for me if i damaged someones property. Especially if they have boating/fising experience they definitely need to pay for it. Now if they didnt know any better that would be different. I say cut your looses and find a new fishing buddy!

I had one friend i took fishing a couple years ago. I asked him to get in the back of the boat for a little bit so i could cast with my right hand. He flipped out, cussed me out, threatened to whoop my a$$, slammed his rod down on the front of my boat and stomped his way back to the passenger seat. Needless to say that was our last fishing trip and that cheap son of a gun didnt give me a dime for gas that day! we're no longer fiends and havent spoke to him since.

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