03-20-2004, 05:09 AM
That is a good story and I had something like that happen to me on a local boat out of seaforth fish landing in quavara basin, Mission Bay San Diego.
We were out on a party boat and one of my rods were secured where it ought to have been in the rod holder on the side of the pilot house. A marine hooked my nice rod and penn 950? reel and chucked it over the side and at first did not admit it to anyone. I was lucky and a guy saw him do it and told me about it. I played a little military with the guy because I was a E-6 at the time and he was a E-2 and I let him know that if he did not pay up I would contact his CO. Well, he was really apologetic and paid for my rig after 2 pay checks! You do not get paid much as a E-2. If he would have admitted it, to begin with, I would have forgiven him and not had him pay but he lied and tried to cover it up and that made me a little hot under the collar.
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We were out on a party boat and one of my rods were secured where it ought to have been in the rod holder on the side of the pilot house. A marine hooked my nice rod and penn 950? reel and chucked it over the side and at first did not admit it to anyone. I was lucky and a guy saw him do it and told me about it. I played a little military with the guy because I was a E-6 at the time and he was a E-2 and I let him know that if he did not pay up I would contact his CO. Well, he was really apologetic and paid for my rig after 2 pay checks! You do not get paid much as a E-2. If he would have admitted it, to begin with, I would have forgiven him and not had him pay but he lied and tried to cover it up and that made me a little hot under the collar.
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