OBX Hater One of the main enjoyments in my life since getting on the internet is reading fishing reports. I don't get to fish as much as I would like to so maybe that is the reason. I read fishing reports from Maine to Florida and all the way to the west coast. I had found a good site in Ocean City, MD that did a good weekly report. When I find a good site, I like to spread it around to other people who might enjoy it so I started posting the link to a couple of sites in North Carolina. All I did was post the link so it was a matter of choice whetcher someone wanted to go there check it out. Well last week, I got the following responces to my post. "Am I missing something? This site is dedicated to fishing on the Outer Banks of North Carolina and it is being used to promote Ocean City, MD? I don't get it! Can someone explain?" Well there was nothing on the site that said it was dedicated to the OBX and I sure don't feel that I was promoting Ocean City. I just posted a link to a fishing report in case someone might be interested. Then someone else posted this. "People here know that the fishing on the OBX is the best on the east coast (and that's not just me talking...many fishermen from other states make the same claim and, unfortunately, crowd our wonderful beaches as a result. Nobody here really cares about Ocean City at all. Why would anyone from NC go to ugly Ocean City to fish on polluted beaches when we have nice, clean, superior beaches right here at home. We don't post our reports on your web sites because we don't give two sh|ts about you or the lame excuse for fishing in your state. Get a life and stop posting your stupid links/reports/crap on our web sites." Well this really make me hot because I felt that I had not done anything to deserve this treatment so I make the following post. "In the late 1960's and 1970's, I used to fish OBX a lot. Then around 1980, I spent a week in Myrtle Beach, SC. I caught more fish in that week that I had caught in my life at OBX. That couple with that fact that I run into so many attitudes like your's, I stopped coming to OBX. I now see that I don't even have to come to OBX to encounter the attitudes. This website just deleted from my favorites list. By the way, I am from VA, not Maryland nor Delware. I have never fished at Ocean City. I can only read the OBX fishing reports and the Ocean City reports and make my judgements from that which is easy to do. Just read one week of reports from OBX and then the Ocean City report and any one can see what I mean. Sorry.. I can't say if the Ocean City beaches are polluted or not because as I said, I have not been there. I have been to Cape Point once in the past 2 years and it was totally littered with local A#$@*les. Didn't catch any fish either. Good Bye" Well this post brought the following responces: "Aren't you the guy that makes those "bad day fishing/better than good day of work" fishing clocks? Why don't you make me one that says: "A bad day of fishing is better than listening to Angel's bull$hit." A friend of mine brought one of your clocks. It tells time correctly, but only TWICE a day!! Glad you do not visit the OBX anymore, both physically and cyberly. SEE YA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" and this: "You tell 'em 'lover! That's a fine example of the warm and friendly hospitality that makes the OBX soooooo infamous. No need to visit, ya'll tourons check out the shopping cart, and just send us your money...." Now I do not feel that just posting a fishing report link deserves this kind of treatment. I find it really hard to understand these attitudes. One thing is for sure, I will never set foot on the OBX again. If I never got to fish again as long as I live, I won't go. Judging from the attitudes posted above, no one is gonna miss me. So I got to ask. Why would anyone else want to go there (unless they have a simular attitude)? You now know what the local people think about you as tourist. Nope, there are enough good places in the world with good people that I can stay away from OBX and make these A$$holes happy. I am curious about something. If a hurricane hit OBX and wiped it out, would these people feel the same way about Ocean City money as they do about Ocean City fishing reports? Would they want money from "ugly, polluted" Ocean City? I know that after this, I would have to think long and hard before I'd go into my pocketbook for them. By the way, what I said about catching more fish in one week in Myrtle Beach than in OBX in my life was definitly a fact. I have been going every since 1980 for at least one week and sometimes 2 every year. Each week I was there, I caught more fish than I ever caught at OBX until Hurricane Hugo went through there. Fishing has been terrible at Myrtle Beach ever since. Click here to see the OBX sticker that I proudly display on the back of my truck |