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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | A little truth and humor in this one.
How Not To Be “That Guy” When Invited On a Friend’s Boat
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Location: Detroit River | I'll need to tag my buddy because items 3, 4, 5 ,6, 9, & 10 apply to him. |
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| Over the years there has been several "friends" I stopped taking because of some of these things. i had one guy tell me once that I was going anyway so what's the big deal. Used to take another guy who never chipped in for gas or bring any drinks for himself or to share so I just stopped taking him. Long story short, he bought a boat, invited me to go along one morning & first thing we stop at a gas station & he hits me for money for gas. I was somewhat shocked! Since dealing with several cheapskates I basically have a 3 strikes & you're out. But it varies. The older I've gotten the less tolerant I've become of free loaders. |
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| I was "that guy"...
The first time a buddy took me out musky fishing he gave me very specific requirements for "catering". Ham sandwich on rye with dijon mustard. lettuce and swiss cheese, Shaved Krakus ham, baked chips (not fried), chocolate chip or oatmeal cookies, lime gatorade, and Claussen Kosker pickles. "WTF. REALLY?! We've going FISHING. We're not going to EAT!" Begrudgingly, I made all the crap and packed the cooler...
Until that day I bringing food would never have crossed my mind. I used to take a can of nuts, a bag of beef jerky, a few breakfast bars and a 12 pack on a weekend trip. Then I went on a trip with a few buddies. They brought hot dogs, beans, paper plates, buns, plastic silverware, and condiments! Holy crap, a meal! First trip to Canada my buddy brought ribs and potatoes and steaks and corn. I brought a can of soup.
How times change, eh? Now we pack a huge cooler for a two day trip, complete with bottles of wine, cheese, wine glasses, snacks, meals, desserts, breakfast, lunch and dinner... I'll admit, most of that is Samantha, but if anyone ever pulls up next to us and says "pardon me, do you have any grey Poupon?" I'll actually be able to say "why YES, we DO!"
But then I'm one of those guys who keeps bottled water and MRE's in my truck so I might be a little nuts...
Edited by esoxaddict 4/26/2017 8:24 PM
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| That is because your boat never is more than 20 feet from your fridge.Hopefully its different this season. |
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Location: The desert | 0723 - 4/26/2017 8:35 PM
That is because your boat never is more than 20 feet from your fridge.Hopefully its different this season.
I literally laughed out loud at this. Well done. |
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| I liked the gas card idea. I have offered cash to help with gas and got "thanks, that's ok". I think folks might feel better about accepting a gas card, plus it will be obvious you gave it some thought and really do want to help with cost. |
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Location: Apparently where the Muskie aren't | Think I might send this to people and have them sign a "terms and conditions" agreement. |
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Location: oswego, il | Why not just pay half? Thats what we do, a rough cut not down to the penny. Pretty fair.
As a boat owner, i keep handi wipes in the boat. Handle your junk, here is a handi wipe before you start immediately handling all the food in the boat! |
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Location: Already Gone | Great article, I think we've all met "that guy" if you've been in this long enough.
My sympathy has always gone out to those guides out there who get "that guy" several times a month. Maybe more. I don't know how you do it.
I'd like to add #12 to the list:
Don't pass massive amounts of ridiculously all-time bad gas unless the wind is right so to blow the stink away from other passengers and/or the captain. Not funny. At all.
No matter how proud you are of the stench.
And #13:
Don't complain about the lake chosen by the captain when all you do is sit on your ash and play with your sucker and pass massive amounts of all-time bad gas. When the captain explains why it's really productive to cast while late Fall live bait fishing, and he has had several very nice fish from said lake to prove his point, don't complain if you refuse to cast. Never say we should have gone to THAT lake.....or THAT lake instead... Ever. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | only thing that makes me crazy is throwing your crap all over the place. if it can't be stowed, don't bring it. if you throw your hat, jacket, gloves, glasses etc... into my windshield area or on my seat, i may go effing nuts. people who don't look around and realize that when under power, stuff can fly out of the boat completely blow my mind. it's ok for you to participate in the world around you and anticipate potential problems and it's equally ok to elminate the potential by putting your crap away.
i fish alone or with my dog a lot. |
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Location: Lake St Clair | Zib - 4/26/2017 3:26 PM
I'll need to tag my buddy because items 3, 4, 5 ,6, 9, & 10 apply to him.
Hope this isnt me, haha
35 more days, i cant wait. ill keep in touch when it gets closer. |
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Location: S.W. WI | jonnysled - 4/27/2017 8:20 AM
. it's ok for you to participate in the world around you and anticipate potential problems and it's equally ok to elminate the potential by putting your crap away.
i fish alone or with my dog a lot.
Right on!! Now that's funny, and true.
Sled, I enjoy your wisdom.
Edited by Rudedog 4/27/2017 9:50 AM
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Location: Detroit River | mastical - 4/27/2017 10:36 AM Zib - 4/26/2017 3:26 PM I'll need to tag my buddy because items 3, 4, 5 ,6, 9, & 10 apply to him. Hope this isnt me, haha35 more days, i cant wait. ill keep in touch when it gets closer. |
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| jonnysled - 4/27/2017 8:20 AM
only thing that makes me crazy is throwing your crap all over the place. if it can't be stowed, don't bring it. if you throw your hat, jacket, gloves, glasses etc... into my windshield area or on my seat, i may go effing nuts. people who don't look around and realize that when under power, stuff can fly out of the boat completely blow my mind. it's ok for you to participate in the world around you and anticipate potential problems and it's equally ok to elminate the potential by putting your crap away.
i fish alone or with my dog a lot.
First time I fished with one of my nephews, I realized his boat didn't have a lot of storage so I took everything I thought I would need, rain jacket, water bottles, sun glasses, snacks, etc., and either packed it into or strapped on top of the large, soft sided tackle box I use. He thought that was a good way to take care of the storage issue and keep my crap out of our way. He now has a bigger boat with a lot more storage space and I handle it a little differently. Smaller tackle box, store everything else out of the way where it works for him. I have noticed when boats come past my house, a lot of guys have their stuff in back packs.
But however you deal with it, folks need to respect the host's desire to keep their boat neat and hazard free. |
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| My favorite is a friend of mine who tells me he wants me to take him fishing, but then informs me we can't go musky fishing because it is too boring. For some reason he hasn't been out with me for awhile... |
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Location: Elroy, Wisconsin | More behavior issues.
1. Banging lures into the side of your 50K boat
2. Dragging sand in when you board
3. Never shut up
4. Casting in front of the boat owner so he is cut off
5. Never try to catch the dock the when coming in
6. suggesting switching to walleyes or bass when musky fishing
7. Always having to take a leak when it is time to pay for gas
8. Leave lures all over the boat
9. Leave garbage in my boat
10. And finally, wanting to try another spot after 3-4 casts
Those things get to me and a sure ticket to not getting invited back |
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| number 4 casting in front from back.i agree annoying
Edited by 0723 4/29/2017 6:07 PM
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| Another pet peeve.... taking weeds off of their lure, throwing some of the weeds back into the lake but always leave some in the floor of the boat. Really? You can't see the weeds you just threw in the floor? Burns me up ever time. |
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Location: oconomowoc, wi | DBJr - 5/2/2017 8:55 PM
Another pet peeve.... taking weeds off of their lure, throwing some of the weeds back into the lake but always leave some in the floor of the boat. Really? You can't see the weeds you just threw in the floor? Burns me up ever time.
nice tryin to clean em off when its 85 and sunny and they get cooked to the fiberglass or carpet huh? |
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Location: Apparently where the Muskie aren't | DBJr - 5/2/2017 8:55 PM
Another pet peeve.... taking weeds off of their lure, throwing some of the weeds back into the lake but always leave some in the floor of the boat. Really? You can't see the weeds you just threw in the floor? Burns me up ever time.
Let a friend borrow a bulldawg and somehow it went back into the tackle box with weeds wrapped all around it. Made a mess of the tackle bag, had to take everything out and stick the hose in it. And you'd be surprised how hard it is to get dried weeds off a bulldawg. |
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Location: oswego, il | Sometimes the back of my boat looks like somebody made a giant salad. That and food garbage left in it. |
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| Howdy,
Here's another one that I can't stand, asking to borrow a lure from my tackle box, but then taking the brand new one as opposed to one that has already been used. Unless you're family (and even that is pushing it) no-one breaks a cherry on a new bait before the captain does.
Take care,
Ruddiger
PS-and don't even get me started on hitting the motor on a backcast after being REPEATEDLY reminded NOT to do that!!!
Edited by Ruddiger 5/3/2017 7:29 AM
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Location: Ashland WI | DBJr - 5/2/2017 8:55 PM
Another pet peeve.... taking weeds off of their lure, throwing some of the weeds back into the lake but always leave some in the floor of the boat. Really? You can't see the weeds you just threw in the floor? Burns me up ever time.
Weeds in the boat is a big one for me as well.
Also, I tend to be pretty neat when I fish, so I don't like when someone leaves clutter (coffee, lures, snacks, etc.) all over the boat. |
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Location: Elroy, Wisconsin | I have noticed over the years that slobs in my boat are usually poor fishermen. The guys and gals that leave neater than when they came aboard are usually very good musky fishermen and never complain.
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| Many many things...
What bugs me more than anything is when you ask someone not to do something (like stand in the middle of the front deck so I can't see the head of the trolling motor, or repeatedly toss your pile of salad in the exact spot where it fouls my lure while I'm working a fish) and they just keep doing it.
You have to figure that most of the time they just didn't know. And that's fine. But when you see me standing there not throwing a cast because your line is out in front of me for the third time this morning?
Here's a good one: Throwing another cast while I've got a fish hooked. I don't know why, I just figured that when you heard "whoosh*, felt the boat rock, and saw my rod doubled over it would have crossed your mind to stop casting and get the ****in' net... |
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Location: Jane Lew, WV | It doesn't really bother me so much but a buddy of mine comes fishing and will sit down for around 15 mins out of each hour. Totally pointless.
Another likes to figure-8 eight to ten times whether a fish is there or not. It gets in the way sometimes when I try to time it so our 8's aren't running into each other.
Talking. Too much talking from basically everyone. Annoys the crud out of me. Just fish dangit! |
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Location: Waukee, IA | darbogast90 - 5/3/2017 1:21 PM
It doesn't really bother me so much but a buddy of mine comes fishing and will sit down for around 15 mins out of each hour. Totally pointless.
Another likes to figure-8 eight to ten times whether a fish is there or not. It gets in the way sometimes when I try to time it so our 8's aren't running into each other.
Talking. Too much talking from basically everyone. Annoys the crud out of me. Just fish dangit!
It sounds like you just dislike other people. Have you considered fishing alone? |
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| Yes, what is this world coming to when a guy takes a 15 minute break every hour. Let's face it if you aren't on a 12 to 16 hour death march every time you go Muskie fishing well, what's the point of going at all? |
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | maybe if you put the guy on more fish, he wouldn't have to sit down all the time? |
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