Disappointed in this fishing community

Saltwater Inshore Discussion
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I’m a “yankee” or so I’m called, been here since 1996. If you have traveled a lot you will know that there are good and bad people everywhere. Differences are cultural. I’m from western NY which might as well be a different world than NYC. Rural areas in any part of the country or world for that matter have awesome people, friendly, that will give you the shirt off their back. I don’t like to be stereotyped any more than the next person. All I ask is that you take me for face value. Northerner’s look at you weird when you say Ma’am because in their culture, a ma’am is an elderly woman. Try to be more open minded regarding whoever you meet. When I’m referred to as a yankee it makes me bristle, but I never say anything, it’s just because I don’t like to be judged.

I would have towed this gentleman on the drop of a hat, and, yes, my 2 boys, myself and wife all say “yes, ma’am”, etc.

2000 SeaPro 180CC w/ Yammy 115 2 stroke
1966 13’ Boston Whaler w/ Merc 25 4 stroke “Flatty”
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Originally posted by Optiker

I’m a “yankee” or so I’m called, been here since 1996. If you have traveled a lot you will know that there are good and bad people everywhere. Differences are cultural. I’m from western NY which might as well be a different world than NYC. Rural areas in any part of the country or world for that matter have awesome people, friendly, that will give you the shirt off their back. I don’t like to be stereotyped any more than the next person. All I ask is that you take me for face value. Northerner’s look at you weird when you say Ma’am because in their culture, a ma’am is an elderly woman. Try to be more open minded regarding whoever you meet. When I’m referred to as a yankee it makes me bristle, but I never say anything, it’s just because I don’t like to be judged.

I would have towed this gentleman on the drop of a hat, and, yes, my 2 boys, myself and wife all say “yes, ma’am”, etc.

2000 SeaPro 180CC w/ Yammy 115 2 stroke
1966 13’ Boston Whaler w/ Merc 25 4 stroke “Flatty”
www.ralphphillipsinshore.com | www.summervillesaltwateranglers.com

I’ve got a great friend that lives in upper N.Y. He fixed me my first porcupine. Not bad. No doubt, night and day from the majority of NYC folk.

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If it makes you feel any better, I broke down in that exact same spot a few years ago. First boat that came by offered us a tow. There are good people out there, it is just getting harder and harder to find them.

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I was able to get some help this weekend. I was out in my canoe, and took my glasses and hat off to swat at the $@#$%^#$% no-see-ums that were eating me alive.

I knocked my glasses in the water with my hat (swiped the hand that held the glasses with my hat), and I watched them flutter gracefully toward the bottom of the 15f deep spot I was anchored in. They were just out of reach.

Immediately, I was able to ask the guy closest to me (40 yards or so) for help. He and I had been having a good talk about how the government is going to spend our money so much better than we would, and how much we looked forward to giving up more of our freedom and income for people who neither appreciate nor earn it.

He came to help, but had no cast net. A few minutes later, I waived at a boat that came by, and asked if they had a cast net, and they did. They made a few casts but we all agreed that it was a lost cause. I’m pretty worthless without my glasses.

I paddled blindly back to the boat launch, and went to the car and managed to find my prescription sunglasses, which I kept in the car. Saved the day and I managed to fish a few more hours and bring home some nice trout.

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I guess I’m just patting myself on the back, but oh well… I gave a couple a tow this past summer from Short Stay to Angel’s Landing at about 8 o clock at night when I put in at Short Stay. They were desperate and I was willing to help. I just hope, not if, but when I’m in the situation someone will help me.

Jamie
“If fishing was easy it would be called catching.”
-My Grandfather

Sea Fox 195 Bay Fisher
115 Johnson Ocean Runner

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Originally posted by brickyard15

and then had help from an older black gentlemen get it running back in order.

Why’s he gotta be black?

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Originally posted by Rapchizzle
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Originally posted by brickyard15

and then had help from an older black gentlemen get it running back in order.

Why’s he gotta be black?

“Can’t we all just get along?”

You can always make money but you cant make time.

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"Can't we all just get along?"

I sure can. I’ll even tow a Yankee :smiley: I wouldn’t tell my granddaddy that though! Heck, I was 12 years old before I knew that damyankee was 2 words:smiley: Of course I wouldn’t tell my granddaddy that one of my best friends and fishing partners is a black man either. And a dang fine man at that :smiley:

Good thing grandpa is gone, I reckon.

I have a lot of good friends from the north, good men all, but I still call them Yankees, and they call me Cracker, and worse, and we just laugh at each other:smiley: Yall don’t take no offense by it, it’s no different than being Hispanic or German, or Cracker:smiley: We is what we is and nobody can help where they come from, just how they act:wink:

For the ones who took offense to the term, let me try to explain it from a southern perspective. And I sure don’t intend to offend anyone, just telling you why some of us is like we is :smiley:

I was born and raised in the rural deep south. Everybody does anything they can for anybody who needs it. But I am only 3 generations removed from the War of Northern Aggression, yall call it the Civil War up there. Memories and roots still run deep down South.

When General Sherman made his march to the sea, he destroyed everything in his path. Our men were out fighting, while our women and children were left on the farms and in the cities. Sherman’s troops burned down every crop field, slaughtered every farm animal, poisoned every well, stole everything of value, burned every farm house and barn, and raped every woman and young girl they came across. The ones they didn’t butcher, they left to starve. They burned most cities to the ground, including Atlanta, and they were only occupied by women and children too. After th

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First off I am not going to wave an orange life jacket unless I have a real emergency like taking on water, or something medical. Second I did wave my arms over my head and then point to the motor at the passers-by. I was by far NOT in an emergency situation, so if no one stops I’m going to be ok. I was just disappointed no one stopped to ask. When a boat passes about 40 yards from you there is no mistake that he saw I was broke down. Hell…he could probably see the expression on my face being that close. Personnally I would stop and ask if evrything is ok with the cowl off alone. Like I said before…that’s just me.

Key West 196;150 Yammie

Life Is Good…Gotta Love It!!!

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Personnally I would stop and ask if evrything is ok with the cowl off alone. Like I said before...that's just me.

So would I, but everybody ain’t like me :smiley:

Capt. Larry Teuton
Cracker Built Custom Boats
Marine Surveying & Repair

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Originally posted by bwulmer

First off I am not going to wave an orange life jacket unless I have a real emergency like taking on water, or something medical. Second I did wave my arms over my head and then point to the motor at the passers-by. I was by far NOT in an emergency situation, so if no one stops I’m going to be ok. I was just disappointed no one stopped to ask. When a boat passes about 40 yards from you there is no mistake that he saw I was broke down. Hell…he could probably see the expression on my face being that close. Personnally I would stop and ask if evrything is ok with the cowl off alone. Like I said before…that’s just me.

Key West 196;150 Yammie

Life Is Good…Gotta Love It!!!

If that is the case, you have a good right to be disappointed. Too bad I wasn’t on the water and in your area. You would have gotten a free tow.

“I am constantly amazed at the stupidity of the general public.”
~my dad

Equipment:
190cc Sea Pro w/130 Johnson
1- 17 year old
1 - 13 year old
1 - wife (The Warden)

ECFC

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Those same folks who passed you by are the same ones who think nothing of throwing bottles, cans, whatever in the water or on the highway…there has always been class, service, humility, honor, and character…then there are the “others”

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unless someone thinks they can actually help they probably won’t stop, with cell phones today most will realize you’ve already called someone or you would have yelled at that boat 40 yrds away for help

do you stop at every hood up in a parking lot? nope, for any one of several reasons

personally I would have asked, but I’m a mechanic so I’m used to dealing with people broke down needing something

North/South? Really?? that’s like blaming Obama because you’re broke down in the water… lol

I was raised right here in the Charleston Area, but was plucked out of here during high school and dropped into the middle of NYC for several years before heading back down here.

yes you can say “Yes Mam” and get treated just as well as down here, if u offended anyone it’s because it was a yank lady that was wondering if you were calling her “old” by using the “mam” … lol

walk into a coffee shop and say hello to someone in NYC, you’ll get someone more open and honest that starts talking so much that they don’t know when to stop more times than not! unless of course you’re refering to the ghetto areas and tryin to compare them to our nice areas…

go to our ghetto areas here and you’ll get the same response you get up there in their ghettos… doubtful either place will produce someone willing to help you on the water… unless they are helping place cement boots on you… lol

I had just as good of friends up there as here, many still life long friends… and believe in family? MUCH stronger up in NYC than anything you’ll ever see here, the family get togethers up there represent something you never see here… you should be so lucky to experience it

racism is much stronger up there too, but with that means that ties that are bound are also much stronger… generation to generation, block from block, area from area, school to school, nationality from nationality, and a few more things are obvious drawing lines way before u even get to the race to race thing… extreme division because blood lines a

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Cracker Larry, that may be the best post I’ve ever read. I’m not a fan of people from the north moving down here but one of my best friends is a yankee, even though it took a year of his wife and my wife working on me to meet him. I have towed many,many people and I have never axed em where they were from before I offered to pull em in.

You can’t catch fish on a dry line

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if i had seen you, you would have gotten a tow back to the dock

about the yankee thing, i am a (() yankee, been here since 92, lucky enough to marry a girl born and raised here, my father in law calls me a (() yankee to my face. dont bother me none, if i grew up here, i wouldn’t want all these folks moving here either. but that is the reason i moved here, cuz it is a great place to live so we gotta share it

17.5 grady cc 115 yam

I can’t = I am unwilling to try

working on mysteries without any clues

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Originally posted by Mountainman1

Can’t recall hearing that too often in NJ and NY.

amen to that. The first time i was in NYC for work two guys at a pub asked me where I was from after I ordered a drink(I have a very, very slight southern accent). Told them south Carolina and they start laughing and asked me what it was like living in a state full of dumb rednecks. charming folks up there.

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Originally posted by meks

do you stop at every hood up in a parking lot? nope, for any one of several reasons

Yes I do! I will also stop at every hood up on the highway unless they already have people stopped to help. Done both many many times.

Key West 196;150 Yammie

Life Is Good…Gotta Love It!!!

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Are you Southern :smiley:

Where I live, you can’t stop on the side of the road to use your cellphone without somebody stopping to help ya send the text:smiley:

Capt. Larry Teuton
Cracker Built Custom Boats
Marine Surveying & Repair

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It’s funny you say that…took my fiance back home, up to Wisconsin a couple years ago and she was like “why are all these people waving, do you know all these people?” I laughed and said that is just how the people are up here. She couldn’t believe it. She has lived in SC all her life. Just sayin’.

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Originally posted by joeboo

I’ll throw this out there and take what ■■■■■ comes. I say we have a large Northern influence on our waters that used to not be there. I’m not knocking all Northerners because I’ve got some family up that way. But by far you will get more help from a true Southern gentleman/woman than a Yankee. There I said it.

Just take the hand waving thing ( it’s fading for sure but still there) ride our country roads and wave (casual not stupidly) and see how many people involuntarily wave back. Go up North and do the same thing. Been there done that.</font id=“blue”>

You can also tell the Northern influence in our young children. Growing up every kid said Yes Sir/Mam because it is respect. That too is fading.

Bwulmer don’t be disappointed, just plan for a breakdown every time you go on the water. My personal strategy (even a new boat will break) is to always have a friend with a boat on stand-by.

working hard and playing harder

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Towed and been towed by strangers and expect it’ll happen as long as I’m on the water. One tow was by a New Yorker who operated a charter boat out of Folly. I think ya’ll are dead wrong about northerners being less generous on the towing. You’ll find good and bad in every group, but by and large boaters will help cause they know it can (and will) happen to them.