Would you tell a stranger you favorite fishing spot??

I dunno If i lob into town I usually ask at the local tackle store when i get my bait. You wont get the secret spot but you usually get a good starting point from which to explore from

Imagine walking up to a strange fossicker in a bar, and asking where's the best place to find gold around here?
Mate it just insn't done!
I would have sent him elsewhere.

G'day Steve

I personally would tell anyone where my favourite fishing spot is...i mean why not?? You cant fish 24hrs a day , and stiff bleep if someone goes and catches a few fish in your fave spot..Being from Port Lincoln originally i know heaps of good spots to catch fish , and have told heaps of people where they are.... I remember the first time i fished the roper river, there was a few people camped just across from where we were camped, we got to camp late this paticular night and noticed they were cleaning some nice sized Barra, one of the fellas that was with us casually walked over and introduced himself , and of course the subject of where they got their fish from came up.....30klms down river came the reply, next day we get into boat and off we go ...Huh what a load of bleep e , we were the only silly bastards fishing that far away from the The Roper Bar, and guess what ?? No F*%#in fish...well later that afternoon we decided we would go and chuck a few lures from the Bar , we were only there about 5mins and we were onto them , we bagged out on Barra ....Later on one of our group was talkin to a young kid that was part of the bulls h i t artists group and he told us that they had actually caught their fish the night b4 from same place, not 30 ks down river at all.....Bastards ...lol


Cheers.......Dave

As you just love Country Music and in particular Slim Dusty, one of the titles of a Fishing related song is

"The Only Time a Fisherman Tells the Truth is when he call's another a Liar"

, Catch some gooduns eh

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Went out on a fishing charter at esperance and caught some nice fish, Queen snapper ETC.
The jetty has a great cleaning table (not where the boats are launched) with water so i piled all the fish up and got to work. All the people heading onto the jetty asked where i got them and i just old them "up the end"
sheesh were they in a hurry to get down the jetty

I assume your are talking about barra and I take it fishing tours is part of your business if it is the more reason not to tell him. Even if it isn't if the guy is an experienced barra fisherman he should be able to find them himself as he should know where they are likely to be how to fish with a live bait and how to use a lure.

If you do engage in fishing guide activities the guy is a bleep he should have went with you then went back to your spots!!!

very Australian !
like not being an organ donor, or bashing your wife, or having a pregnant daughter with 15, or thinking that bashing your kids is ok for 85%, like being the second worst country after US in animal protection (cats and dogs excluded) .. like hating the successful and sticking to the losers ... well I could go on ..

have fun
gmd

There's a reason why they are called secret LOCAL fishing spots. Because if you are not a local then you don't know about them. If you want to know about them then become a local.

Get to know some blokes as mates and they will soon tell you where the good spots are. Meet some stranger for the first time and he won't tell.

Barnesy

Steve,

I agree with your response but maybe you could have told him that without a boat he could not get up the creek to be without the proverbial pedal.

On another note and I think this is a fair question who would you call a stranger? I would not consider an EO member MM me as a stranger (strange maybe) and would tell what little I knew. They're smarter than to ask me anyway. I have done the same in reverse and asked strangers but possibly in a nicer way than your guy with better results. Some people are just overly sensitive I reckon.

Kind regards

Theo

Steve



Just bought a boat today. Do you know any good fishing spots?


Just joking. I wouldn't have told him either.




Tjilpi