we have all had them lets hear some of yours.
the worst one I had was way back in the day and was fishing a tourney and had a young kid maybe 20-21 at the time drawn with me for my Co. we meet up at the ramp and he comes carrying his bag and gear over not a ton of gear maybe 5-6 rods and a decent size bag. so we get to chatting a bit before take off and he tells me him and his buddy have been at the lake in his buddies boat for the last 4 days "pre-fishing" and they were straight wackin them. so I tell him ok that's cool we will start out at your spots since they are closer than mine and see how it goes. if we get to catching them we will just stay there. we agreed and took off. after about a 15 mile boat ride we get way up in this creek and start fishing a bluff wall. we fish it for about 3 hours with out hardly anything. im a little irritated but that's fishing. so the kid catches a small limit fish, just barely bumps the line. he puts it in the livewell and I tell him better double check that fish before weighing it in cause its prob gonna shrink and be short. he says its fine and he will weigh it.
so we get to about 11:00 am or so and kid asks me "if its his turn to run the TM". I turn to him and say "what?" he says "when do I get to run the TM". I tell him "when he buys his own boat." he says " well they said I could run the TM half the day" so I tell him "well kid you better read the rules a little closer".
so about 30 min later I hear this beeping..i turn around and this kid is sitting in the drivers seat of my boat pushing buttons on my graph. so I ask him " there something your looking for" he says "yea just a map to see where we are" I tell him ya could have asked instead of just pushing buttons and I would have told ya, and for that matter how do you not know where we are at these are "your' spots and we are in the same creek that we started in that you said you and your buddy were wacking them in" he looks at the map and says " year this isn't the creek I was talking about. its this one" while pointing to the map.
so I look at him and say " ok then its time to go"
we strap everything down and head to one of my areas. finished out there day there with a small limit maybe 13-14lbs and head back in. this kid still only has the 1 small fish from earlier in the day. we pull in to the weigh in and I tell him " hey you better measure that fish its probably short" he says " no it will be fine"
im like ok whatever. we park the boat and he asks for a weigh in bag cause he didn't have one. so I give him mine. he packs up his 1 fish and heads to weigh in. so im like well I guess ill load the boat up now and wait. all this time there is another guy parked next to me and he asks me "hey you get one of them good COs too" I tell him "yea guess ill load my stuff up too while hes weighing in" we me and this guy talk a bit and he says "well hell give me your keys and ill get your truck and load yours then you can get my truck" so we get loaded up and im in the parking lot putting stuff up and here comes this Kid up to my boat bringing my weigh in bag back. so I ask him " what your fish weigh" he says " it was short" I don't say anything he grabs his stuff and walks off never said anything.
so I pack up and head home measly finish but weighed in a limit. was an eye opening day for sure.
so lets hear some of your CO Angler stories. we know they are out there.
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Back in the day when the co entry fee was like 75 bucks...you had some interesting dudes show up for sure...had one guy at rayburn one january 45 degrees and raining...noticed he wasnt putting on any rain gear. He told me hed be alright....cuz his jeans were starched.
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Keep them coming.
