Crow Terminator
Well-Known Member
I usually go up to either Tellico or Citico trout fishing through the week. I work midnight shift and work all night, then head up to the rivers after work for a few hrs of fishing. My cutoff time is usually 11 to 11:30 whether I have my limit or not, because it's an hour drive home and if I have fish, I gotta clean those too. Anyway, I went to Citico Tuesday morning and found the water to be much higher and rougher than I had anticipated. I was having to use 1 oz in sinkers just to partially feel bottom and many of my holes were simply unfishable. Long story short, I caught 2 trout...one nice one on my 2nd cast and a short one that I threw back. I put the good one in my cooler...but them time got away from me and it was 11:30 and time to leave. On my way out, I passed another angler on the road rigging up. I stopped and said hello, asked if he was doing any good, etc. He had 2 fish he said. I asked if he would like 1 more, as I had to leave and 1 fish wasn't worth fooling with. This guy instantly goes ballistic on me for offering him a fish! Saying I shouldn't even fish if I didn't want to keep my fish, etc. I said look man, I come up every week and usually have my limit by 10ish, and today it just didn't happen and I ran out of time. I didn't mean you no offense...I just hate to bring one fish home and thought I'd offer it to someone. That set him off more. I don't know what I did to tick him off. But I guarantee I wont offer any more fish to anybody else. I left him standing in the road still ranting. All he had to say was "no thanks, I prefer to catch my own" or something similar.
