Thread: What do you guys think?

You are not alone in your thoughts maddog. People like that shouldn't even be allowed to be on the water in my opinion. Last week I took my 3 year old out in the boat with me to do a little trolling, and about 50 ft from me there were a couple of other boats trolling as well and one of the guys told the guy in the other boat that he was going to slow and bucked him up (cept he didn't say bucked). In plain hearing distance of my little 3 year old son. Some people now a days just have no respect for others. I have absolutely no respect for people like that, zero, zilch.

unfortunately...there are bad apples in every basket,especially here on weiss.I fish from the bank a lot during the month of march,with my daughter,and it never fails for some jerk(s) in there 40,000 bass rigs to come flying by us trimmed up and skint back in a slew about 150ft wide....over the last couple of years I have been taking notice of where these people are coming from.....the vast majority of the ones I saw were from kentucky/illinois....slow down folks....and idle past people trying to fish from the bank

When that has happened to me, I figure I am gonna move to another spot anyway, so I start making all kind of racket. Banging hatch covers, dropping anchors and then picking them up and splashing them up and down to "remove the mud". i think in your case, I would have let the little lad pee off the side of the boat before loudly exiting the area. Sometimes if the "intruder" acts like a real a**, I will sit there and call up the Marine Police on the Radio and give them the Registration Number of the idiot.

Originally Posted by Bombfixer

When that has happened to me, I figure I am gonna move to another spot anyway, so I start making all kind of racket. Banging hatch covers, dropping anchors and then picking them up and splashing them up and down to "remove the mud". i think in your case, I would have let the little lad pee off the side of the boat before loudly exiting the area. Sometimes if the "intruder" acts like a real a**, I will sit there and call up the Marine Police on the Radio and give them the Registration Number of the idiot.

That sounds like a good idea! I should have done that. I can make a lot of racket in my aluminum boat. Just a lot of walking around and like you said, accidentally dropping a few things should do the trick,haha

poeple have no respect for others, thats why i quit most of my bass fishing on Guntersville, they see you catch fish so they want your spot, most of the crappie and cat people do show some respect for your space but i guess some of them just dont care

This is so disrespectful, pisses me off in a bad way, just my opinion!

I don't get to crappie fish much but we have the same problem when fishing for specks on reefs. I always keep me one rod rigged with a extra large weighted float and when I see someone getting to close I will cast it as far as I can in there direction. This is just to let them know the next one might end up in there boat.
There use to be a guide service that if they saw you catch a fish they would move in on top of you, they are now out of business. It all comes down to respect.
I have a rule of thumb that I use when fishing reefs due to the size of the reefs. I look at how far the fisherman is casting, how far that I will be casting plus 50ft. That way we can not get into the same casting zone. I know that crappie fishing is different but if a person will just be respectable and keep his distance it would be nice.

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