RJ
03-31-2008, 08:37 PM
B FAST CHARTERS of MA: Well folks, we have a new addition to our Deadbeat Payers list. It is Capt. Mike Bartlett of the B Fast Charter Boat in Green Harbor, MA. Here is how the story goes….
Capt. Mike and B Fast had been a loyal supporter of TFL for a several years running and we allowed Mike the courtesy of posting reports and appearing on our radio shows numerous, numerous times. We also allowed Mike to spout off on this fisheries management knowledge for the MA and New England region and even gave him the open airwaves of TFL radio show at ALL the expos and boat shows we attended together…even going so far as to allow Mike to announce he was running for the NE Fisheries Board seat that was open (can’t remember which one).
Well anyway several years running I would arrange for Capt. Mike and B Fast to come to the NY Boat show and work out of TFL booth, also to speak and get paid as a featured seminar speaker at the NY Boat Show, pay his travel expenses and put him up in a hotel in NYC while he was here. Basically all he had to do was buy his own food and book many charters out of our booth which he graciously did. Any way I would even allow Mike to pay off the previous year’s balance of $1,800 the following year at the NY Boat Show when I saw him. He would run up large balances two years running but I never pressured Mike for money because one year his dad died and the next he lost a brother I think it was.
Well a year or two later I asked Mike several times to pay off his balance at the time of $920 during that calendar year so I could close my books. Now mind you Mike is a COLLEGE PROFESSOR making six figures and his wife is also very well paid at her job. he also runs charters on lobster boats in MA for the winter cod, also does fly fishIng charters himself all summer and fall and has a hunting guide service for upland bird hunting as well as buying a brand new second home in NH....HE HAS THE MONEY!!! He hemmed and hawed and never got it done for whatever reason so I did not invite Mike to speak at the January’s NY Boat Show. I did him favors and he could not return this one simple request?
Well you guessed it…because I would not bring him to NY to speak because he did not clear his balance …he just refused to pay his measly $920. It is now four years later and his balance is down to $420…that’s right a college professor making six figures can only pay TFL $100 per YEAR toward his balance in a callous show of his arrogance. TFL makes a living selling advertising to provide the services we do. If advertisers don’t pay….we can’t provide those services…period! So Mike Bartlett and B Fast Charters are being boycotted by The Fishing Line and hopefully all our readers and web visitors and is now being added to the Deadbeat Payers list as a Deadbeat Supreme after four years of us sending invoices. Welcome aboard Capt. Mike.
Capt. Mike and B Fast had been a loyal supporter of TFL for a several years running and we allowed Mike the courtesy of posting reports and appearing on our radio shows numerous, numerous times. We also allowed Mike to spout off on this fisheries management knowledge for the MA and New England region and even gave him the open airwaves of TFL radio show at ALL the expos and boat shows we attended together…even going so far as to allow Mike to announce he was running for the NE Fisheries Board seat that was open (can’t remember which one).
Well anyway several years running I would arrange for Capt. Mike and B Fast to come to the NY Boat show and work out of TFL booth, also to speak and get paid as a featured seminar speaker at the NY Boat Show, pay his travel expenses and put him up in a hotel in NYC while he was here. Basically all he had to do was buy his own food and book many charters out of our booth which he graciously did. Any way I would even allow Mike to pay off the previous year’s balance of $1,800 the following year at the NY Boat Show when I saw him. He would run up large balances two years running but I never pressured Mike for money because one year his dad died and the next he lost a brother I think it was.
Well a year or two later I asked Mike several times to pay off his balance at the time of $920 during that calendar year so I could close my books. Now mind you Mike is a COLLEGE PROFESSOR making six figures and his wife is also very well paid at her job. he also runs charters on lobster boats in MA for the winter cod, also does fly fishIng charters himself all summer and fall and has a hunting guide service for upland bird hunting as well as buying a brand new second home in NH....HE HAS THE MONEY!!! He hemmed and hawed and never got it done for whatever reason so I did not invite Mike to speak at the January’s NY Boat Show. I did him favors and he could not return this one simple request?
Well you guessed it…because I would not bring him to NY to speak because he did not clear his balance …he just refused to pay his measly $920. It is now four years later and his balance is down to $420…that’s right a college professor making six figures can only pay TFL $100 per YEAR toward his balance in a callous show of his arrogance. TFL makes a living selling advertising to provide the services we do. If advertisers don’t pay….we can’t provide those services…period! So Mike Bartlett and B Fast Charters are being boycotted by The Fishing Line and hopefully all our readers and web visitors and is now being added to the Deadbeat Payers list as a Deadbeat Supreme after four years of us sending invoices. Welcome aboard Capt. Mike.