05-06-2014, 08:36 PM
My son and I made the run up to DC on Sat afternoon. The fishing was super slow. We were trolling jigs and pop gear.
A quick conversation across the water with a gentleman and his wife indicated that they were doing well on flies. He kindly offered to give me one so we headed over. As we were moving toward him he hooked up on a nice rainbow. He called to me to hurry over and when I got there he passed his rod to my son and let him bring in "our first fish of the day."
The story is great if it ended there, but it didn't. After that he passed me flies for both me and my son to try so we could experience what he was doing.
We said our thank yous and good byes, then headed off to try our luck.
A short tome later I saw them moving back toward us. Thinking he was trolling, I kept trying to move out of his way. When we got close enough to talk he told me to wait where I was, then came over to us. His sweet wife said they were done for the day and handed me a bag of goodies and then wished us luck!
I see so many stories here about negative experiences with others, that I couldn't let this go without being told. I wish I knew who it was that was so kind to us. If you're on here and read this, I have something I'd like to send you as a thank you.
By the way, we ended the day boating 5 fish, my son landed 4 and I brought in 1.
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A quick conversation across the water with a gentleman and his wife indicated that they were doing well on flies. He kindly offered to give me one so we headed over. As we were moving toward him he hooked up on a nice rainbow. He called to me to hurry over and when I got there he passed his rod to my son and let him bring in "our first fish of the day."
The story is great if it ended there, but it didn't. After that he passed me flies for both me and my son to try so we could experience what he was doing.
We said our thank yous and good byes, then headed off to try our luck.
A short tome later I saw them moving back toward us. Thinking he was trolling, I kept trying to move out of his way. When we got close enough to talk he told me to wait where I was, then came over to us. His sweet wife said they were done for the day and handed me a bag of goodies and then wished us luck!
I see so many stories here about negative experiences with others, that I couldn't let this go without being told. I wish I knew who it was that was so kind to us. If you're on here and read this, I have something I'd like to send you as a thank you.
By the way, we ended the day boating 5 fish, my son landed 4 and I brought in 1.
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..great story.. little bit of goose bumbs