"Legends of Sportfishing"?

[Mo]

Congrats Fred !
I would love to have the knowledge and sea time you do.

[Gil Marlin]

In order to toot your own horn, you have to have done something that merits it...

That leaves out about 99.9% of the people on this board, including me...
Congratulations Fred, I enjoy reading your articles...

[Seelicious]

Originally Posted by Lamna

Yep.

Coming from someone who has used Fred's bars and other tricks for many years... its REALLY fucking funny to see the naysayers hurling insults. If they only knew how stupid they look from the eyes of someone who knows better.

Fred is one of the nicest guys out there... always going out of his way to try and convince the stubborn and the ignorant to try something different. The turdhurlers are truely the bottom of the barrel. Like I said, if you only knew how wrong you are.

Thanks for everything Fredster. Screw the lowlifes anyways.

Matt...you sum that up well! I know without a doubt I catch more fish in Oregon and in Cabo because of what Fred has taught me.

Fuck the fools Fred...the world is full of them.

[Fred Archer]

WOW! (SORRY FOR CAPS, BUT HAVING BIG TROUBLE SEEING LITTLE STUFF LATELY) ALL KINDS OF WARFARE AND SOME GREATLY APPRECIATED PRAISE AND THE SARGEANT AT ARMS DOING SOME AXING, EVEN THE BOSS MAN! HOPEFULLY, IT WILL ALL GO AWAY BEFORE LONG AND WE CAN GO BACK TO THE GREAT SITE THAT THIS ONE USUALLY IS.

I THINK THAT MOST OF IT CAME ABOUT BECAUSE OF THAT BIG GAME JOURNAL COVER, WHICH I REPEAT, I DIDN'T POST TO BRAG, BUT TO MAKE CLEAR WHAT SOME OF THE "LEGEND" CUTTING REMARKS SOME WERE MAKING WERE ACTUALLY BASED ON. FUNNY, THOSE VERY SAME PEOPLE REACTED THE LOUDEST AND MOST ABOUT THAT COVER BEING POSTED, EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE THE ONES WHO CAUSED IT. THAT ISSUE CAME OUT LAST AUGUST, AND IF I WANTED TO BRAG ABOUT IT, I WOULD HAVE DONE SO WAY BACK THEN, NOT JUST NOW. THOSE ARE THE FACTS.

THE "TOOTING MY OWN HORN" THING KNDA GETS UNDER MY SADDLE, BUT I DO UNDERSTAND IT. THERE IS NO TAKING AWAY THE FACTS ABOUT MY HISTORY IN THE TACKLE BUSINESS AND FISHING. AND IF SOME PEOPLE DON'T LIKE HEARING ME SAY WHERE AND HOW I LEARNED SOMETHING AND INSTEAD, CONSIDER IT TOOTING MY HORN, WELL, THERE'S NOTHING THAT I CAN DO ABOUT THAT.

NUFF SAID FOR NOW. BUT KNOW THIS...NO MATTER WHETHER IT'S THIS SITE OR ANY OTHER, I AM NOT GOING TO ALLOW ANY SONOFABITCH TO LIE AND MAKE UP SHIT ABOUT ME, OR PUT WORDS IN MY MOUTH. I WON'T STAND FOR THAT AND NEITHER WOULD OR SHOULD ANY OF YOU IF YOU WERE THE TARGET OF THAT KIND OF CRAP ANDI WILL DEFEND YOUR RIGHT TO SET THINGS STRAIGHT, ANYTIME. AND I WILL TRY TO DO SO AS A GENTLEMAN, NOT SOME RAVING ANIMAL EXPRESS YOUR OPINIONS, BUT IF YOU START LYING OR TALKING UNTRUE SHIT, I WILL BE ALL OVER YOUR ASS LIKE STINK ON SHIT AND WILL GET TO YOU BEFORE THE SARGE DOES - IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS, KINDA BLOODY DECKS STYLE - SAID WITH FULL RESPECT FOR THE SITE. JUST BE SURE TO HAVE YOUR SHIT TOGETHER TO PROVE THAT YOU ARE QUALIFIED TO JUDGE OTHERS OR WIND UP LOOKING LIKE NOTHING BUT A MEAN-SPIRITED SHITHEAD TO THE GOOD GUYS WHO COME HERE.

DAMN! NICE DAY, ISN'T IT?

AND GOOSE...SO GOOD TO SPEND TIME WITH YOU YESTERDAY! WHAT A NICE MAN THAT ONE IS, AND A HALIBUT FISHERMAN? JEEZUM CROW, THAT DUDE IS [/i][/b]WORLD CLASS![b][i] I LEARNED MORE FROM THIS GUY THAN I KNEW EVEN EXISTED ABOUT FLATTY CATCHIN' - NOT FISHIN'. HELL, ANYBODY CAN TELL YOU ABOUT THAT...BUT CATCHIN'? HOO, BABY, THAT'S A WHOLE 'NOTHER STORY AND THIS GUY KNOWS ONE HELLUVA LOT OF THE ANSWERS! A REAL QUALITY MEMBER THAT THOSE ON THIS SITE SHOULD BE REAL PROUD OF. I KNOW THAT I SURE AM!

[Ali]

Good to see you back amigo.

[johndtuttle]

Glad to see you posting Captain! Don't let the lowlifes get you down! No one with an ounce of sense attempts to rebut your knowledge of sport fishing or your questions your desire to conserve the precious resource that our sport depends on. In fact, not one idiot that has ever had the balls to post an attack on you has done it under his real name on these boards or any other that i know of, that should tell you something.

The Internet is full of 'Trolls', people that enjoy causing grief for others as there are no consequences for themselves...they are best ignored as they go away quickly...silence forces them to retreat to their cave in defeat.

Quick note: saw the endorsement of your bars by Roddy Hays on another board. The opinion of another bona fide world class fisherman is more than enough for me... Good on 'ya mate!

take care and keep the faith!

PS: Man, if you had videos of fish hitting the bars all i would need is a cold Corona and you would take me there completely!

[Fred Archer]

GATA, MILLE GRACIAS, JEFE!

JOHN, THANKS. WHAT MUCH OF THIS BOILS DOWN TO IS, WHEN YOU ARE A YOUNG MAN, YOU HOPE THAT YOU WILL ACCOMPLISH MANY THINGS AND THAT YOU WILL LIVE A GOOD, RESPECTFUL AND RESPECTED LIFE. WHEN YOU ARE AN OLD MAN, YOU ARE WHAT YOU HAVE ACCOMPLISHED. NOTHING CAN CHANGE THAT, NOR THE THINGS THAT A MAN HAS OR HAS NOT DONE. TO DENY A MAN THOSE ACCOMPLISHMENTS, LARGE OR SMALL, OR WORSE YET, TO DISTORT, TWIST AND LIE ABOUT THEM IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE LOWEST THINGS ANOTHER MAN CAN DO. SIMPLE.

I AM WHO I AM AND WHAT I HAVE DONE. TO THIS DAY, I TRY TO LEAD A LIFE THAT MY FRIENDS, MY FAMILY AND MY DEPARTED, BELOVED PARENTS, WHO TAUGHT AND INSPIRED ME AND WHO I BELIEVE STILL WATCH OVER ME, CAN BE PROUD OF.

HEARTFELT THANKS TO THOSE OF YOU WHO SEE THIS.

[Saluki]

Welcome back Fred.
I didn't see you online for a couple of days and several members were concerned.
Glad to see you back posting.

[Fred Archer]

THANKS, SALUKI. WAS KINDA UNDER THE WEATHER.

GLAD TO BE BACK WITH YOU TROOPS. MY HEART TRULY IS IN THIS PLACE AND THE MANY GREAT MEMBERS.