09-18-2001, 05:09 AM
Absolutely killer story George. Nothing better than an excellent ending to what sounds like a great day of fishing. <br>Nice Calico too.....<br><br>Similar story , I took a greenhorn friend of mine out on the water for the first time out of Long Beach Sportfishing as part of Dan Butler's Fishing Academy. As you know it's somewhat and at times extremely intimidating getting on a boat and looking around at some of the arsenals and the folks that have the "Im gonna put it to you look on there face". My friend learns the skills necessary to start casting on his own. Still a bit gun-shy, he cruises up to the port side by his lonesome so he didn't piss anyone off and starts casting for cudda. He's thinking damn these dudes don't have anything on me. Really starts winding up and coming into some distance. Next cast was a little heavier because he had hooked someone elses setup and lauched it! THE ENTIRE SET-UP, so he looks up and down the rails and only one gentleman saw him and gave him the "I wont roll over on you look". He informed the captain and together decided wait till the end of the trip to be a buzz kill on the guy who's gear you tossed. Brewing over what kind of money he just tossed overboard he started in on a for sure catch with 12 oz. curls in the galley. Long story short, he found the guy who lost his gear and luckily the guy was stand up enough to claim it was only a 80 dollar set-up. In return he gave the gent a $180 combo and the guy picked up his $42.00 beer tab and a fishing friend for life. <br><br>Kharma<br><br>Booyaa To Ya'!<br><A HREF="http://www.fishingclothes.com " target="_new">http://www.fishingclothes.com </A> <br>Romero