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Padding your stats!
« on: March 28, 2012, 09:35:21 PM »
Is it OK to blatantly lie to people about how many fish you are catching? Than try and pass off 1 fish as multiple? I dont think so but I am starting to see it more and more with social network sites. Your thought on this.

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Re: Padding your stats!
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2012, 09:36:36 PM »
Early to bed, Early to rise...fish like hell and make up lies.


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Re: Padding your stats!
« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2012, 09:38:55 PM »
I always say "didn't catch a damn one" even if I limited out.  :chuckle:

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Re: Padding your stats!
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2012, 09:39:27 PM »
Yea its one thing to lie to your buddies but showing off pictures to the entire world and trying to pass off 1 fish as 2 just bugs the hell out of me!

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Re: Padding your stats!
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2012, 09:41:04 PM »
Well, there's no law against it so I guess it's OK.   :dunno:

I'd be more upset about it if it were my buddie's lying to me, complete strangers I would expect it.

Course if I were going to lie, I'd be saying the opposite (like Miles).


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Re: Padding your stats!
« Reply #5 on: March 28, 2012, 09:45:13 PM »
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Re: Padding your stats!
« Reply #6 on: March 28, 2012, 10:18:38 PM »
when I am down steelheading and someone asks how many I always say just a few  :chuckle:

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Re: Padding your stats!
« Reply #7 on: March 28, 2012, 10:27:27 PM »
Like the sign above Bass ProShop says, "Welcome hunters, fishermen, and other liars."

Does it really matter how many fish some random guy caught.

Only time I hate the stories is *censored* like, "oh yeah there's no deer in here, just one buck and everybody knows where he's at"  :yike: really and he's still alive and that doe with two fawns that I just saw weren't really deer, but some kind of hybrid wolf!?
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Re: Padding your stats!
« Reply #8 on: March 28, 2012, 10:29:03 PM »
If you want an honest answer from a total stranger, than I would say it depends on the type of fish and how well you know the person.

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Re: Padding your stats!
« Reply #9 on: March 28, 2012, 10:32:19 PM »
There is some real fish stories out there! I will tell most people I have caught a few and never say my real numbers. Fish and bears seem to be the most crazy stories and weights :bash:
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Re: Padding your stats!
« Reply #10 on: March 28, 2012, 10:33:27 PM »
There is some real fish stories out there! I will tell most people I have caught a few and never say my real numbers. Fish and bears seem to be the most crazy stories and weights :bash:

especially at the gas station....  :chuckle:
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Re: Padding your stats!
« Reply #11 on: March 28, 2012, 10:39:44 PM »
 :chuckle: I like to mess with people as well. Someone will see blood on one of my rigs and ask what we got. I will tell them a 5 point. 4 tits and a tail :chuckle: Some will ask about fish as well when I pack them out of a hole. They will say, hey what did you catch them with I say a net :chuckle: Or what did you use for bait I will tell them not to tell anyone one else and they get all excited until I tell them a magnet for steelheads :chuckle:
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Padding your stats!
« Reply #12 on: March 28, 2012, 10:39:53 PM »
People always over estimate weights, and exaggerate how many they caught. When we fish you often hear people say how many they caught, I hardy ever can keep track of how many fish I caught especially when it gets over 10, which in ocean fishing is nothing. This world is full of BSer's, something I can't fricken stand

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Re: Padding your stats!
« Reply #13 on: March 29, 2012, 07:08:49 AM »
My standard is "were doin alright".

I'm not sure why you would get all bent up about this. Call him a cracker and keep it movin...
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Re: Padding your stats!
« Reply #14 on: March 29, 2012, 07:15:01 AM »
bear weights always bother me,they are all 400 lbs...the last fish I caught was so big the picture weighed 5lbs :dunno: :chuckle:

 


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