Unbelievable

[codroamer]

I phoned a tackle shop to order bait for the trip to Hythe on the Kent coast for Saturday evening. When I told the owner that we wouldn't be able to get there much before closing time, the owner told me that if I got there late, they would leave the bait at a pre arranged place and asked me to put the money through the letter box! I couldn't believe my ears! They don't know me from Adam. I could have just taken the bait and not paid! When I pointed this out to them, the response was "You got to trust people, haven't you?"

It really has restored my faith in people and it's so nice to be trusted like this, when muggers kill people for a lot less money.

I wanted to identify this shop because they deserve a little back door advertising, but I have had second thoughts in case somebody a little less scrupulous might take advantage of their trust. It would be a crying shame. For myself, I will go out of my way to use this tackle shop again. If they happen to read this, thank you very much for the trust in me.

As for the trip itself, we had plenty of sport with dabs, flounder, doggies, pin whiting and rockling between three of us. Unfortunately, it was mostly small stuff. We fished about 200 yards before the boats. One of my mates kept two good sized doggies and I kept two good dabs (about ½-¾lb each) Tide was around 9pm and we fished from 7pm to midnight. There was a lightish SE wind and there was a club competition going on with 5 members fishing. The secretary told me that they all weighed in, so it was a good evening all round.

[chamois]

yo codroamer the pier shop at deal is good also; they give my bait to the pier bloke (who you pay) when they are closed and you just give him the money; it is sometimes hassle trying to get down there when the tide is late.

[codroamer]

yo codroamer the pier shop at deal is good also; they give my bait to the pier bloke (who you pay) when they are closed and you just give him the money; it is sometimes hassle trying to get down there when the tide is late.

 

It certainly restores your faith in people, in this cynical world. I just hope that some scroat doesn't rip them off one day and destroy their trust.