11-17-2015, 03:48 PM
[#0000FF]Thanks. I do believe in "pay it forward". I have been fortunate in having known and fished with a goodly number of accomplished anglers over the years. I am properly grateful for the help they freely offered...and the acceleration of my own learning curve. I have enjoyed a long and fruitful fishing career and these days I get a lot of my enjoys from passing along little tidbits I have learned...and seeing others benefit from them.
Sadly, as you have observed, there are far too many fisherfolk who treat our sport as if it were a top secret pursuit that has to be kept among a tight group of elitists. On our own forum here I have watched the "evolution" of some members...who go from begging and groveling for help to closed-minded and closed mouthed anglers not willing to divulge anything about things so freely shared with them by others.
I ran into this reluctance to share...by one of our longtime esteemed members...when I was recently working on putting together my PDF book on Willard Bay. I mentioned that they were recognized as being knowledgeable on Willard and asked if there was ANYTHING they might like to contribute to the members. I was told flatly that they did not care to share ANY of their tactics and techniques. And that from a guy who has received LOTS of freebies...lures, writeups, maps and other assistance...from me. I still shake my head in disbelief as I think of that. But that's on him.
Thanks again for your kindly comments. It helps.
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Sadly, as you have observed, there are far too many fisherfolk who treat our sport as if it were a top secret pursuit that has to be kept among a tight group of elitists. On our own forum here I have watched the "evolution" of some members...who go from begging and groveling for help to closed-minded and closed mouthed anglers not willing to divulge anything about things so freely shared with them by others.
I ran into this reluctance to share...by one of our longtime esteemed members...when I was recently working on putting together my PDF book on Willard Bay. I mentioned that they were recognized as being knowledgeable on Willard and asked if there was ANYTHING they might like to contribute to the members. I was told flatly that they did not care to share ANY of their tactics and techniques. And that from a guy who has received LOTS of freebies...lures, writeups, maps and other assistance...from me. I still shake my head in disbelief as I think of that. But that's on him.
Thanks again for your kindly comments. It helps.
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