[Fishingnerd33]

I apologize in advance for this, but I gotta get this out of my system. My family and I had a great day of fishing! Let me set the scene for you all. We were in the fish-cleaning building (obviously) cleaning fish. There were two other guys not in our group cleaning their pike. We were having a great time talking with them and cleaning fish. Dad hasn't really learned to fillet so I figured now was a good time to show him. So it took us awhile to clean all of the fish we kept.

He came up and said, "Where you gonna put those guts when you're done?!" I didn't even look up and started chuckling a little, mom & dad were smiling.

Owner - "Don't just be standing there with that grin on your face, what you gonna do with those guts when you're done?!" I quit smiling and looked up, "yeah I'm talking to you! That's ridiculous coming in here and keeping 100 crappie!"

My dad said, "We kept 40, that's 10 a piece, that's not out of line at all sir."

Owner - "Yeah right, come in here and keeping 100 crappie that's just dumb! Doesn't take anyone 2 hours to clean 40 crappie!"

I said, "Well, I'm teaching my dad how to fillet, he's never done it so it's going to take awhile."

Owner - "There's no reason for people who aren't guests to spend that much time in here!"

I said, "Isn't this..?"

Owner - "I don't care what you have to say!"

Dad said, "Are we...?"

Owner - "I told you I don't care what you have to say! The next time you come here, don't keep 100 crappie and clean them at home!"


Out of the 41 we kept, we only had 3 females with eggs. Besides, it's not any of his business how many we keep from "his" lake. Then he kept saying how ridiculous it was that we were fishing on "his" lake and weren't staying at one of "his" cabins. I told him that was the dumbest reasoning I've ever heard. I told him that the only reason he was mad is cause we weren't staying at one of the cabins. Boo hoo.

The whole time he was b****ing about us cleaning our fish we were a captive audience but as soon as he was done telling us off he started walking off. I had to talk to the back of his head while he went back to his concession stand.

Needless to say all of us were pretty steamed about getting treated like that. I thought it was a pretty pathetic way of trying to run a fish camp. There, I think it's out of my system now, just thought that you all should find out about the way the owner of the fish camp thinks & treats those who don't stay at his camp.