As the title says, this has not been a good year for us. The Missus and I are very introverted. We are quite happy being mostly alone. However, around nine years ago we met someone on this forum. He lives in the next town from us and fished the same places we did. We met up and soon became good friends. We'd meet up on the same lake and compare notes, when the Misses didn't want to go he and I would head out for the day. Our friend ship grew to shooting, woodworking in my wood shop, I got him into fly fishing, fly tying, He was a best friend.

Then a few months ago it seemed like his whole attitude changed. Every message I sent him led to him arguing with me about something. He stopped coming on this forum. Finally one day he sent me a message and said he was done and had enough. I wrote him back to ask for some of my stuff back that I had lent him and never got a reply.

I had another e-mail of his and I finally used it to send him another message. I told him how after nine years and every thing we had gone thru the best he could do was ghost us. He couldn't be bothered to get out of his chair, hop in his car, drive twenty minutes over here so we could talk it out in person , shake hands and part on good terms and at least give me my stuff back.

So far I've not yet received anything back or heard anything from him.

And to add insult to injury I had a bad reaction to one of my medications and have been house bound for some time. I am getting better but it will take some time. so the cover hasn't been off the boat for weeks and I can only read about everyone else catching all the fish. So please, catch one or two for us🙂

That’s too bad

I hope you’ll be feeling better real soon.

As far the other thing, cut your losses and move on.

You’re the one who’ll be the better for it.

Theres a message in the silence

Mike

Is it possible the other individual has become chronically ill with something or had a catastrophic accident and is unable to respond?

I'm not making excuses for this person, but if you know where this person lives, perhaps a visit to their residence could confirm this and if he's still there, you can talk with them.

I hope you feel better yourself.

Is dementia a,possibility? I’ve read where some people get aggressive. Does he have any family you can contact to see if there may be a reason? Good luck because good fishing friends are hard to find.

My initial thought when reading your post was the same as what @TOXIC said. Dementia immediately came to mind. I wonder if that’s a possibility.