What do you do when a trout won't commit?

[H Dot Verseman]

there you go again, 5th 20" fish. when I am booking a trip with you??????

[Esopus Guy]

You tell me...........

[AaronJasper]

Brandon

Go make your own store and site if you want to sell stuff. What you are doing is quite shady and disrespectful to Justin and myself.

Justin already asked that if you are going to sell anything else ask him and he will put it in the TPO store. I see you can't listen.

Daniel

Book a trip with him and don't show up. He likes to do that to other guides... Real scum and TPO in no way gives his "guide" service any credibility nor do we support him in any way. His behavior and sly actions are what fly fishing needs less of.

[H Dot Verseman]

Aaron,

I cannot speak of anything other than I have experienced with Brandon. Going back a couple months, there was a thread on streamers, and he put me onto the galloup style of streamers. From there, it went into a discussion about fly design, specifically these streamer patterns. He said give me a call, and I did. We talked for about 2 hours and he gave me a lot of insight into their design, as well as fishing them. From there, I watched some videos and did some research, and since I had just begun fly tying, I said, "Hey, would you tie me some streamers?" I did not have the means to buy and waste the material to get them down right, he obliged and the quality is top notch. I would much rather support local individuals instead of companies that produce these flies on a mass level scale. He did not private message me asking if I wanted flies, I contacted him. This batch of flies will be my 2nd batch with him.

I'm not sure what the problem is, nor do I care. I have found many individuals on this site including you, Justin, Tim Y, Brandon, Frank, Magnet, etc who have been extremely helpful, and I chose to support some of these people by ordering flies, leaders, dvds, sighters, etc why not?


This forum is a community, and you are starting to treat it as a dictatorship and I'm not understanding the reasoning behind it. You and Justin have done amazing things, and you have received much support for those things. I will continue to support you in your endeavors, I have an ongoing conversation with you about booking a trip later this year as well, and I can't wait for the new dvd. I will also continue to support the other members on this forum who have helped me.

[Esopus Guy]

Ummm...... No one asked me to do anything by the way. You new the reason why I was no longer welcome on Cat Flies and you welcomed me and my fly tying here. I don't know what's got into you man. I've sold flies for guys you said you didn't have the time for and was on the open forum. As a matter of fact it was H Dot who asked you.Tim tied him some leaders and I did some flies. You were cool with that. What's your deal now? I've been selling flies since day 1 and you knew it! I even put up pics of orders going out and your reply was " I guess we don't have to order the big stuff from Rainy's anymore" and told you to call me if you wanted anything. I've asked Justin numerous times if there was anything I could do for TPO. He just says spread the word. He never said not to sell flies or to put them in the TPO store and it wasn't because no one knew what I was doing. Every fly I've sold has been thru the open forum.

I do sell flies on my own space but TPO members reach out to me here. If you prefer they not use TPO to contact me that's fine. Thought I was doing my part creating some new traffic on the site.

If you want me to put them in the store then you ask me. Both of you guys have my phone ## . Text and e-mails will be ignored as I see this being something we should actually SPEAK about. 845-430-1540 Until then........

[Esopus Guy]

Oh yeah... Planned fishing trips never go belly up right? Over a year later and that's all you can say about me. You have hit a new low..

[DBspecial]

Wow that will be very difficult for me to do but Ill give it a shot. That was a great motivational speech on streamer fishing!!

[DBspecial]

That last post was for Esopus....Im pumped to give streamer fishing a shot.

[DBspecial]

No need to worry about selling or buying I tie my own leaders and flies.......but whats not for sale is good advice and fun forum chats I hope this will continue.

[northcountryman]

This seems unfortunate;

Speaking about what little I know of Brandon, he has been very helpful, insightful , and eager to share his immense knowledge w/ me. I learned an incredible amount about flyfishing in a short period of time and since he was the one who turned me onto this site ( and many others also from Catskill flies) I'm sure he's been a major asset for TPO this past year. Perhaps there was a misunderstanding?