04-18-2005, 12:58 PM
It must have been a good day for altruism. While loading my toon after fishing, I was struggleing with getting my frame into the back of my pick up. A young guy saw my efforts were not being fruitful as he was loading his boat. He asked if I needed some help and I said it would be nice. After they loaded their boat and drove up the ramp, the guy came all the way back and gave me a hand with it. Not a real big deal, mind you. But, a pleasant surprise to have gotten the assistance from some guy just being a decent human being.
My own biased and pseudo humble opinion and experience, is that fisher people are a cut above the rest. Besides that, when a person is fishing, they generally cannot surround themselves with themselves - nature does not allow that disorder in the successfully surviving creatures.
On the other hand, one day, there was a time when a very large cabin cruiser was adrift and about to run aground and me and my humble little tin trawler(with the 1982 9.9 hp evinrude) offered them a tow. They mocked me in my tiny tub, so I laughed right along with them too, and said "fine ! I'll just anchor here 'fer a spell' and watch the wreck of the "Edmin Fitzgerald" while I fish some more and if you folks don't rock the boat too much, your "Titanic" might just become some great partially submergred fishing structure in the very near future". Finally, when they heard some scrapping emmiting from the hull area of their great fiberglass "ARK", one of the ladies started to panick and threw me their bow line and me and my tin tug boat towed them to the marina where only the lady said thank you and asked where a person might pick up a nice motor like mine. while their men folk hid in the cabin or made busy like they had more important things to do than save their own skin. It made my day and I am quite sure that their was not only no fisher people on board, but most likely, nary a viable "pole" to be found on that barge either !
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My own biased and pseudo humble opinion and experience, is that fisher people are a cut above the rest. Besides that, when a person is fishing, they generally cannot surround themselves with themselves - nature does not allow that disorder in the successfully surviving creatures.
On the other hand, one day, there was a time when a very large cabin cruiser was adrift and about to run aground and me and my humble little tin trawler(with the 1982 9.9 hp evinrude) offered them a tow. They mocked me in my tiny tub, so I laughed right along with them too, and said "fine ! I'll just anchor here 'fer a spell' and watch the wreck of the "Edmin Fitzgerald" while I fish some more and if you folks don't rock the boat too much, your "Titanic" might just become some great partially submergred fishing structure in the very near future". Finally, when they heard some scrapping emmiting from the hull area of their great fiberglass "ARK", one of the ladies started to panick and threw me their bow line and me and my tin tug boat towed them to the marina where only the lady said thank you and asked where a person might pick up a nice motor like mine. while their men folk hid in the cabin or made busy like they had more important things to do than save their own skin. It made my day and I am quite sure that their was not only no fisher people on board, but most likely, nary a viable "pole" to be found on that barge either !
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