Y It's Important

To respond to a fishing invitation when you say you will.

1 - Basic good manners. The person issuing the request took the time to
think of you.

2- The person who invited will not sit arround the night before waiting for
the promised response.

3- Someone else could have been invited

4- The invitor would not have to spend and entire day fishing w/o a partner

5- The invitee would not have missed the two five pounders, two four
pounders and
numerous 3s that were taken. Especially missing a great spot on his
home lake (which will now never be shared). And lastly

6- It's just plain rude to say you'll call someone, ignore the call date and
never respond at all. !

Can you tell I'm aggravated ?

Josh The Bad Bear

Yep.



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You should be aggravated Josh, for all the reasons you mentioned plus a few
more.
"Joshuall" wrote in message
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To respond to a fishing invitation when you say you will.

1 - Basic good manners. The person issuing the request took the time to
think of you.

2- The person who invited will not sit arround the night before waiting
for the promised response.

3- Someone else could have been invited

4- The invitor would not have to spend and entire day fishing w/o a
partner

5- The invitee would not have missed the two five pounders, two four
pounders and
numerous 3s that were taken. Especially missing a great spot on his
home lake (which will now never be shared). And lastly

6- It's just plain rude to say you'll call someone, ignore the call date
and never respond at all. !

Can you tell I'm aggravated ?

Josh The Bad Bear

I've had that happen a time or two. Usually it doesn't bother me too much,
since I enjoy my own company when fishing.

However, one time I really got irritated. It was when I lived in Memphis
back in the '90's. I invited a guy to go fishing with me at Enid Reservoir
in Mississippi.... I got up extra early and made sandwiches, packed some
extra snacks and drinks, rigged up a spare spinning outfit for my guest to
use.... Drove 1-1/2 hour to the lake, getting to the campground parking lot
near the dam about 15 minutes early. This was long before anyone I knew had
a mobile phone, so I just waited at the parking lot for 45 minutes (fretting
as I sat through the pre-dawn bite and watching one rig after another roll
past me down to the ramp). I finally pulled down, dropped the boat in the
water, parked, and then trolled around fishing near the ramp for another
half hour in case my buddy showed up. Finally, at 7:30 or 8 AM I headed on
up the lake and fished until 10. As I'd feared, the early bite was done, and
I ended up catching maybe three dinks before I had to leave. I drove back
home, called the guy to berate him and located him at the shop where he
worked. At some point in my harangue he suggested I look at my calendar, and
I discovered that I had circled the following weekend.

That was kind of awkward. Fortunately, the fishing the following weekend was
a lot better.

Joe
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"Joshuall" wrote in message
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To respond to a fishing invitation when you say you will.

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Can you tell I'm aggravated ?

Josh The Bad Bear