Tis the Season: Remix

[octico]

Originally Posted by Dannowar

That's real cool and all, but at what point are you gonna catch your own fish?



Not trying to be a dick but rubbing in everyone's face that you paid someone to basically attach a fish to your line and you just reeled it in just kicks dirt in the hundreds of times I've scoured la jolla for nothing.



Just sayin.

Please expand, I know I am new to this forum. But, you cannot just make a statement like that on give more detail? If the kid caught the fish true and true why would you say something like that ? What is your point? I mean no offense by this statement.

[Dannowar]

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[Dannowar]

I know the OP says he's very busy with school and has a hard time getting out regularly. Well, so does everyone else. I juggle a night job and two CRAZY kids and find time to get out every so often. I'm happy to be on the water catching no fish at all. But WHEN that monster shows it color, I'm satisfied with all the hard work I've put into it start to finish. All the prep. Wet launches. Intel. Rig tying.... It all pays off.


I apologize if I came across dickish at first, four posts about la jolla monsters, all written the same way with the same picture and same "I paid a guy to get me on fish" got me a little buggered. All these reports get my heart racing and motivated to get on the water not knowing if I'll skunk out or reel in glory. THATS the sport. There is no sport in taking the shortcut.

[Bert Vega]

Originally Posted by Dannowar

I know the OP says he's very busy with school and has a hard time getting out regularly. Well, so does everyone else. I juggle a night job and two CRAZY kids and find time to get out every so often. I'm happy to be on the water catching no fish at all. But WHEN that monster shows it color, I'm satisfied with all the hard work I've put into it start to finish. All the prep. Wet launches. Intel. Rig tying.... It all pays off.


I apologize if I came across dickish at first, four posts about la jolla monsters, all written the same way with the same picture and same "I paid a guy to get me on fish" got me a little buggered. All these reports get my heart racing and motivated to get on the water not knowing if I'll skunk out or reel in glory. THATS the sport. There is no sport in taking the shortcut.

Just because you hire a guide does not guarantee a fish. To me it's like chartering a private boat. As opposed to going on a party boat. It seems to me that you just had a little to much hateraid last night. To step on anyone's post and down play them isn't cool. You are entitled to your opinion. But it's tacky to post it on a thread like this. Don't hate cause the kid has the means to speed up his learning curve.

Not trying to sound like a dick

Just sayin

[bolocop]

Ah, the 1% vs 99%.

One guy pays his way to the goal. The other wants to "earn" it.

[The pelican]

I personally enjoyed reading the post. Nice work and great picture!

[momo fish]

Says the guy with most expensive kayak on the market, hobie PA. I would not knock someone for how they spend there money or assume they have it.

Originally Posted by bolocop

Ah, the 1% vs 99%.



One guy pays his way to the goal. The other wants to "earn" it.

[Fishin Phil]

Nice post and great photo.

[alanw]

Finally a thread I can say dick in Nice fish btw, even if you you had it coached up. I pay for cattle boats all the time for them to put me on the fish. But I think what Danno is saying is to have patience, put in the time, and the rewards will be greater.

[walrus]

Sounds like you paid you dues on being water, Congrats.

Inches or pounds that biscuit is a beast.

[kluts]

Originally Posted by bolocop

Ah, the 1% vs 99%.

One guy pays his way to the goal. The other wants to "earn" it.

Right on, well said,all yer gonna get with a guide is a photo on the wall, get out and live and learn with the ocean

[kayachapi]

So being a member of this site, trying to gain some knowledge on equipment, technique, and target species is cheating the true fishing experience of making hooks out of bones until you figure out that there is a better way on your own. I get very few opportunities to fish in the salt, which is all I can think of doing. I wouldn't hesitate, if time money and opportunity lined up, to hire a guide. I'm such a dick.

[momo fish]

Really?? Way to knock a guys profession and downplay the effect of hiring a guide. Guess Darkhorse / Wade are are just photographers.

Your forgetting that the members are out fishing and trying to improve. Guess hiring a guide is bad but buying a high end kayak for 3500 and spending another 500 - 900 is totally fine. Just don't spend money to learn how to best use it.

Originally Posted by kluts

Right on, well said,all yer gonna get with a guide is a photo on the wall, get out and live and learn with the ocean

[chxh8me]

Maybe he's the victim here. Maybe DH is the one to blame. How DARE he lure these innocent victims into his evil clutches with the promise of local knowledge and a better shot at quality fish. Someone needs to report this internet predator for preying on these poor people who just want to catch fish.

Nice fish dude. Sometimes you do what you gotta do. Putting that much driving and time in on the water with no reward to show for it is frustrating. Enjoying a nice day (or many days) fishing on the water, in such a great surrounding such as LJ, is only gonna get you so far if you aren't catching.

[Lets_Fish]

All I can say is AWESOME catch. One day with or without the help of a guide I would love to say I hooked a beast like that and landed it!

Congrats on a nice

[Silbaugh4liberty]

Originally Posted by Bert Vega

Just because you hire a guide does not guarantee a fish. To me it's like chartering a private boat. As opposed to going on a party boat. It seems to me that you just had a little to much hateraid last night. To step on anyone's post and down play them isn't cool. You are entitled to your opinion. But it's tacky to post it on a thread like this. Don't hate cause the kid has the means to speed up his learning curve.

Not trying to sound like a dick

Just sayin

Agreed. It's like saying you rather work a labor job for twenty years to get up to a $60k year job rather than paying to go to school to get the education, and four years later stepping into a $60 k + a year job. Nothing wrong with paying for knowledge. It's not like the guy put the fish on his hook.