Your Fishing Partner Bothers You When......

[RPnKC]

When he drives the boat over fish so he can beat the bank.

[Colton Neal]

Simply crossing my line...

[Handy]

When he wont go fishing with you! My brother just doesnt want to make plans for anything so we only go when it just happens to work out. My other fishin buddy tells me all the time that I wont catch them on that bait! Case in point I went to throw a stanly ribbit toward some weeds and he says I wont catch anything with that and on the first cast got a 14 inch largemouth. I looked at him and he was slackjawed and has since kept those kind of remarks to himself.

Paul

[kms399]

My brother is notorious for this, he will loose his only spinner bait then borrow one of mine. after a few hours he usually looses that one grabs another then forgets to give it back at the end of the trip. he always says oh, I owe you a spinnerbait man sorry. I have yet to recieve a lure back from him. on the other hand I do make more money than him, not much but I can afford to buy more where he cant. but still

[wisconsin heat]

my dad isnt a great fisherman he really has no clue what he is doing. i dont like it when he loses my lures. He has and will cast crankbaits to slop on the surface, this wouldnt be too much of an issue, but when we fish from shore and im slowly working my way down a bank with a plastic or something, he cuts in front of me and casts the crank into weeds and pulls in pounds of salad every cast! He just ruins the spots that i was obviously on my way to! I love my dad and am thankful that he got me into fishing when i was younger, but dad you can really tick me off sometimes!

[Basspastor]

I've got a fishing buddy who is tough to deal with in real life as well as in the boat. He thinks he knows it all and is always right. He's outspoken on lots issues and I don't always agree with him. He often is screwing around when I'm ready to go. It drives me nuts to fish with him in my boat because he such an excessive back seat driver. "Move the boat this way, move the boat that way, slow down, speed up, lets try somewhere else". When things don't go right he gets frustrated or angry. He is constantly negative about other people. He always wants to keep the pike we catch and he'll catch panfish for me to clean when I don't want too. (I refuse to clean his pike). He'll get in self in unneeded confrontations with people, sometimes those people are me. Simply put he's a jerk.

So why do I put up with him? Well he's a former Marine and Army National Guard Iraq veteran and I know growing up was tough for him as his Mom died when he was a kid and his father is worse than he his in terms of people to get along with.