Hillsdale Wake Zone 1-24

[LOWEDE]

Fished Hillsdale for a five hours today. Did fair on 1/8 oz. in 25'. Chartreuse and any other color seemed to work pretty well. I cleaned 10 with a couple of 13" ers. Only three or four boats on the Maryville pile and everyone was catching them. Last year I saw 12 boats on it. Probably the same pile in LBJ's post but didn't see any red boats. It has been one of the best winter spots on the lake for a few years. Like that's a secret! Fortunately I didn't have to knife fight my way to the pile, it's huge. I didn't know anyone but they were all friendly, including the Great Lakes boat. I'd guess they were a couple of 80 year old retired guys. Might miss it a year or two. They did talk about someone buzzing their boat. I told them I read about it on the net. You guys need to start getting along and trying to sink a couple of 80 year olds ain't trying very hard. I still can't believe that post. Also don't care who was right. Of course their story is different.

[LBM]

I would certainly love to hear their side of the story.

Just tell me how well you would enjoy working a brush pile by your self for over an hour as you work from down wind into and over and past the pile then have someone come in on you and block you path or route that you had been using to work that pile. I don't care if they were 100 yrs old they were damned inconsiderate. I don't intrude on other fishers and don't think I should be intruded on and forced to move or change how I was working the pile because another inconsiderate fisher wants to work that pile. Probably more times than I have fished that pile I have come from other parts of the lake thinking I'll stop and check it out but see that some one else is there and continue on.

Some how I totally missed picking it up after all the years that I could have been intruding on other fishers on their established spots and actually go into them and have crowded and blocked them out and off of the spot they are fishing. Is that what you are trying to tell that I've had it wrong all the years that I should alter the way I am fishing and change it or leave just because someone else wants to work that spot.

I would certainly love to see how many on here have that attitude that when they are on the water that they would willingly and happily leave a spot just because a stranger came up and crowded them off of their fishing spot.

[crappiedoc]

The good ones or unknown ones, I'll leave. Ain't gonna give em up or turn and start bass fishing. One of your last few posts you mentioned Mr Mosey, you know the kind. They stroll along using their chartplotter and GPS to mark where your fishing. Or they pull up on you while fingering their graph and the infamous "Oh, I thought you were somebody else". Nope just us and some catfish. Or the sidefinder crowd now, "man look at all the fish under his boat" hehe ALWAYS. I'm sorry for your circumstances and live with them myself, but what do you do, pull a guncase out of your rod holder while throwing a tantrum?

Many of us have posted our pictures, rigs, backgrounds and stories, so in a way we've asked for it. The only foreseeable way to help eliminate some of this congestion would be to post more reports. If you really think about it these reports are no different than the caw of a gull, what do you expect. My last fishing report turned out good, bad, and ugly. In honesty, a quote from Al "walleyes cheaper at $75/lb" Caps right! It's just a fish! But it's also my thousands of hours and money to find and catch them. What'da ya do?

[Kansasoutdoorsman]

Sorry Low,

If half of what LBM said was true (which I would tend to believe most of it(except the total number of keepers)) then he is completely in the right for saying what he did. There is no reason for someone to come over to a spot someone is fishing and push there way in. If someone is that bad at fishing and can't find other fish, they need to take up golf.

[huntcapn]

I am that bad at fishing...and I already play golf lousy too.....what's a feller to do?...juggle , I guess

[crappiedoc]

BOATGOLF, and the 2nd shots a Gilligan

[birddog one]

working a line into and over then out of a pile if you're moving that sucks for you if some one moves in on "your" spot (line) it's public water get over it now if you're anchored up or hovering over a spot well then youre justified in your complaints. If I remember right somebody got run off a spot for tieing up and blocking bank fishermen last year about this time not sure if that pertains to this but you know.

[slabby joe]

I am that bad at fishing...and I already play golf lousy too.....what's a feller to do?...juggle , I guess

Sounds like you need to go back to professional bowling ...ifin you got the balls:p

[labsnslabs]

Birddog I'm going to have to disagree with you on this one. Yes you are right it is public water but you shouldnt have to anchor on a pile to have some consideration on how your fishing. I feel like what happened to LBM is no different then if someone jumped in front of you on a tree row.

[LOWEDE]

Sorry LBM, that pile is plenty big enough for several boats and trying to swamp someone is over the top and illegal. The F&G put that huge pile in and posted the coordinates. I'm pretty sure they would not agree that the first guy there owns it all. You could check with the GW but I'd pull those first several posts down first. It's kind of incriminating.