Ugh, so many already similar responses. I haven't done multi day trips but me and mates have been out a fair bit and usually grab an extra here or there.
But people that are newer that just don't listen to the advice for stuff they ask about is the biggest black mark. The other one is not offering to chip in somehow or if they've been at least once before but don't contribute the 2nd time they can get the cut pretty quick. Don't care too much how rich or poor you are - you bring what you can and make the damn effort or I'm not making any effort back
If I ever steal the old mans vessel, and I would often, I usually make sure there's fillets for him before I eat
Kind of agree but some people can discuss politics/economics without not getting along. I do it all the time. Although if we're talking about politics like lately on this forum then yes I agree. I agree though it's simple to read the room if politics/economics isn't something guys are into then change the subject and don't bring it up. I have mates like yourself who I know don't give a shot of want to discuss it. And other mates that we can chew each others ear off solving all the problems of the world. Like you said just got to get along.
Not fishing but.... Here is the reason I dumped a hunting "buddy".....
I'd organised a weekend pig hunting trip with someone I'd hunted with a few times, seemed ok. I had to call the hunt off a few days before because something unexpected had cropped up, and organised it for the following weekend. But I taken that person there a few times before and he and some random mates went there hunting anyway. They got their Landrover stuck on the track, went back to the farm and borrowed the tractor without asking. While trying to pull the Landy out they rolled the tractor down the hill and into the river..... And I get an irate farmer ringing me that night asking why I said they were allowed to go out......
Or; another doozy..... You bring an acquaintance out for a hunt. He asks if his mate can come too. "Sure" I say. Coming back we stop the wagon and talk to the farmer who is helluva frosty with me compared to usual. I just think that he must've had a barney with the missus or a bad case of man-opause and think nothing of it. I get home and about an hour later get a ring from the farmer absolutely losing his nut with me..... Turn's out the "mate" and a few of his mates had been out there the week earlier rounding up all the cockies wild goats..... That was in the days when a white feral nanny was fetching $600-ish dollars.
I pleaded not guilty to him; because I didn't know anything about it. I apologised profusely and thankfully he calmed down and realised that I was as f***ed off as him. And also thankfully; didn't ban me from the property. I rang my mate up and blew my stack. Turns out he didn't know anything about it either! His "friend" had f***ed us both over.....
It's just decent to:
pay towards fuel
be on time
bring your own bait
know how to tie a trace and bait your own
keep only thenumber of fish you need, not the legal limit and definitely not more than the legal limit
share your catch with the skipper, especially if he's had a bad day
stick around and help stow things away and clean the boat
When I dive, I also offer to take all the empty tanks to the dive shop for a fill - I figure I'm going there anyway,... Owners can pick them up and pay for the air once at their convenience. It goes a long way to getting a second and subsequent invite!
I would always given a a old work mate venison even when we had stopped working together, sometimes butchered meat or hole animals. This guy was a keen fishermen, i said how about i give you some gas money for a feed of fish next time your out.thinking he might say na na your sweet. Got a message and he said got some fish how does $50 sound. So thinking must be a good amount of fish the wife went in to town and picked up the fish and paid. We would have been lucky to get two feeds out of it. Never given him any more meat after that day.
I'm going back to the begining haha. This thread is hilarious!
I also don't feel like my hunting buddies are so bad after all
Really, really annoying is the idiots that turn up late, unprepared, and hung over as fuck. Man that gets me down. You end up with deadweight passengers for as long as it takes for them to get their shit together. This used to be a real problem with the guys I knocked around with when I lived in Cape Town, fishing there is a serious business as its straight out into dangerous currents and some big ass swells, but for some or other reason part of the culture was this habit of getting absolutely hammered whilst getting ready the night before. Add that to the insane amounts of breakfast brandy these guys would consume, and 3 or 4 trips was enough for me. We were all the same age roughly, at least half of those guys are dead now.
The one time I remember it was our boss, he of the unblemished character and stellar track record as he liked to tell us frequently. You can imagine how awkward it was for us to try and get him to stop drinking the night before because we could see what was going to happen... Next morning before dawn we’re up and raring to go getting everything sorted... and this guy stumbles out looking like he would welcome a visit from the Grim Reaper, right now please. He didn’t manage to fish for a minute and sat like a wet sack of shit in the corner the entire day, in the way, on one of the only two decent chairs on board, moaning about “something I ate”.
Dick.
Just...say...the...word
There is a boat by the same name moored in Nelson
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