Have You Ever......

[ryan7261]

Ok I kinda got pissed today, I got a call from this guy who said he got my number from a friend. Turns out this friend of "mine" told this guy that I have all my bass holes marked on my G.P.S and would sell the spots to help him fish some tourny's this year! >

Now this kinda made me mad:

1st. this guy who gave him the info is or was my fishing partner!

2nd. the audacity of this guy phoning me was outrageous all together!

So I told him after I talked to my buddy I would get back to him. So I called "MR. Friend" and said what the hell.... needless to say I'm looking for a new partner! Then he says he wants half the info "we collected together"

So I took my G.P.S and downloaded it then I gave him all new info with the wrong locations where he will catch d!#k all.

What would you have done, is this going over the edge.Or would you be pissed too? ???

Robby.

[Rich]

Yeah, Robby-that is over the edge. I'd be pissed, too.

[jeffman]

ROB,
I would have told him "SUE ME" to see if it was worth enough to him to spend the money on a lawyer to prove that he had any right to the information that YOU put into YOUR gps. Chances are the Judge would have told the atty. that it was a frivilous law suit and threw it out of court.

JackL

[fisherwoman]

not the guy who phoned fault, he was told you would sell. fault is ex fishing bud.
i'd give him jack, if it was collected by both of you he should have recorded the marks that were important himself, you did!

did you fish comps with this guy?maybe the caller was his new partner?? mmuuuuwwaaaaahhhahahahaha(evil laugh)

[bassfisher14]

I would be pissed too. Â*What you need to do is call the guy back, find out what tournament he is going to fish and then report him for cheating. Â*That is the reason they have practice days, so people can find their own spots to fish. Â*People like that is what causes alot of good bassfisherman to get discouraged and stop fishing tournaments, or even worse. Â*Stop fishing at all.

This reminds of a story I read on another forum. Â*A guy was putting out some trees to make a crappie hole and right after he dropped them, and a$$hole come over and started punching in the coordinance on his GPS. Â*When the guy was asked if he was having any luck, he just replied "I will from now on." Â*If it were me, the guy would have been pulling a crankbait out of his lips after a remark like that.

[macgyver]

If I'm not mistaken, the new rules in B.A.S.S. is that you can't pay, recieve or get any information from any locals, guides, etc... You must find your own spots, from prefishing. If you know the lake then great, but any attempt to gain information from anyone other than yourself is now against the rules. Now if I'm correct(which I could be wrong) And this fellow fishes any B.A.S.S. events he is direct violation of the rules. As for your partner, well if that's how you boys across the border treat friends, I would much prefer to stay on my side of it. Sounds pretty dirty and cheap on both the caller and the partner to me. I would walk away and start kicking their butt in the tourneys you fish. Let your fishing show them the proper way to go about things. And that's bust your butt, to know where, when, and how to catch fish. If they were that good, they wouldn't need your GPS coordinates anyway. How often does the homeboy actually win these tourneys anyway? Not nearly as much as you would think. Why because the great ones, can get to any water, and within a couple of days of prefishing, dissect it, and know where to be, and at the right time, with the right baits.

Lizards

[Rob Mak]

with me it is don't even think about it. i have many places marked i also know alot about certain lakes. i fish a certain hump it has a ditch running through it one side is 6 feet deep the other side is 8 feet deep. it drops almost insantly to 45 feet on the high side and 82 feet on the deep side. and before ya ask it is 1/2 mile from any bank and has no bouy on it..this hump is not marked on my gps but i am well aware of it's location.



zooker

[macgyver]

[quote author=zooker link=board=MessBoards;num=1111191848;start=0#6 date=03/18/05 at 21:56:18]with me it is don't even think about it. i have many places marked i also know alot about certain lakes. i fish a certain hump it has a ditch running through it one side is 6 feet deep the other side is 8 feet deep. it drops almost insantly to 45 feet on the high side and 82 feet on the deep side. and before ya ask it is 1/2 mile from any bank and has no bouy on it..this hump is not marked on my gps but i am well aware of it's location.



zooker [/quote]

Which lake was it that they had the tourney last year that you fish? And wasn't it you that said I can't believe the bags of fish they were bringing in during the tourney? I understand your spot is sacred, but would you have beaten the pros during the tourney, fishing your spots? As I recall you said you had never had a limit like that, and fished it many times not just 1 week. Don't get me wrong I consider you a very good fisherman with tons of knowledge in that red head of yours. But being local many times means stuck on cetain spots becasue they always seem to produce. Most of the times, the BIGGER bass are where you aren't so the pro's find em and catch em, otherwise how could they do what they do everytime out. These are of course the GREAT ONES, there are tons of what I would consider average pros, and on my best day I doubt I could compete with the lowest level guy

Lizards

[bassmaster1983]

Yea i would be upset also. I agree with bassbooger. I cannot see cheating as any fun. Also i hope he doesn't catch any fish in the wrong locations you gave him.

Bob

[Rob Mak]

lizard it is with out a dout my most consitant spot on this lake i know i can pull up fish 10-15 minutes catch at least one bass every time. and be gone to a differant spot. it is a spot well worth finding and keeping a secret. the bonus is i have never seen any one fish this spot other than some striper fisherman.-they tend to skirt it-

zooker

[bassmania25]

wow zooker dont know how to respond to that, obviously hes not a real fisherman. I have many people I fish with, and against. We discuss strategies lure colors etc, but never has anyone asked me to give up my spots. I did have a fish partner taht fished backseater with me once, call me once and ask if i was gonna fish a specific tourney, and i said no, he then asked if it was ok for him to fish one of my spots. absolutely hope it worked out for him. thats how friends and partners respect eachothers water. Scott R

[BaSsFiShEr20]

I wouldnt have givin him the info. A right cross maybe....

You're better off without that kind of "partner"

Charles

[eyes]

ROBZILLA, I would have been upset too with this so called "friend". As far as this guy who called you for the info, that's bull****! I hate it when other people want to capitalize on something when you put all the work in. Most of the time it's because they are too lazy to put the time in themselves. I recently paid $129. to go to a BassMaster University Seminar, and a guy in my club wanted me to xerox the notes I took for him to read. This was after he had the chance to go with us to the seminar, but chose not too. Needless to say, I laughed at him!

[dave_in_fl]

My question is how much was he willing to give for these GPS points? if he had more money than sense i might have given him all but the Best of the Best points. ;D

[catfishtonyd]

Sorry. I don't see it as "cheating" (unless there was a B.A.S.S. tournament involved). He was told you had something to sell. You corrected his misinformation. He went away. Now, I'd be annoyed at my "buddy" who made the offer to sell something that didn't belong to him, but the other fellow didn't do anything wrong. No more wrong than me walking up to you at the ramp with a map and asking you for some help. You can either help me or not.

[ryan7261]

Ohh the guy that asked me for the info fishes against me. He figures since I might not be able to fish this season (competivley) he would use the info, so I said"what about when I come back you'll still know the spots!" then he got the idea. He didn't sound like he thought the whole thing through!. as for the soo called friend he never navigated the boat once I picked all the areas by studying the maps and trial and error. So now he has location (which I gave him) that has no cover what so ever and no fish have been caught for some time![glow=red,2,300]MMMMUUUAAAAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! [/glow]


Robby.

[TheBassMan]

I like the way you handled it Robby.....Very nice ;D

Catch em up
Brian