What Ever Happened to Fishing Respect and Sportsmanship

[buffalo13]

Fished today and had a great day. Caught 2 limits, But had a guy follow us around and when we marked a bed to fish he would come by sidescan us and mark it. I started to tell him just wait and I would give him the waypoints where he would quit following us.. I know when I drop them in the lake, but come on at least wait till I'm not fishing them. If I see him fishing any of them I'm going to pull up and fish them with him and ask him how he likes where we put them..Sorry just had to vent..
What ever happened to Sportsmanship?????

[BIGBADDAD]

Tell wiskers to stop following you!!!Does stink. Been fishing the same spots for a week and today 2 boats were on my spots that I had been rigging. Saw the same boats the last couple days....you never know.Were they from Indiana???? Thats for you dbk23

[buffalo13]

No actually this boat if from KY and we see him there all the time..

[BIGBADDAD]

And wheres my invite? Promise not to bring the handheld GPS!

[kytiteloc]

You've got to get sneekier !! Go to the Sixfin rules handbook of deception and check on these rules # 25, 28, 32, 36, and #50!!

#25 Never Mark a bed if somebody is near by!!

#28 Never continue to fish a bed if somebody is coming by!!

# 32 Use the boat to block the buoy marker!!

#36 Move, Move, Move and Move enough to make them tired of chasing you!!

# 50 NEVER TRUST A THIEF!!!!

And by the way Sportsmanship left decades ago but now every sucker that can afford to buy a side sweeper has accelerated the process to the point of no return!!!

[buffalo13]

I'm not sure he wasnt marking some of them..
Tried them all...

[dkb23]

Tell wiskers to stop following you!!!Does stink. Been fishing the same spots for a week and today 2 boats were on my spots that I had been rigging. Saw the same boats the last couple days....you never know.Were they from Indiana???? Thats for you dbk23

LOL! Get em BBD!!! Get em!! Keep em off the Illinois boys! Rofl

[chuckauten]

I don't think any state has the advantage of lazy fishermen. Lazy is those who will watch others and steal the location. A friend of mine took me out last year to show me the advantages of fishing brush piles. One trick he uses is a small black marker he made. Cannot see it from very far away. He also will only take a couple off each pile and then move. Picking up his marker with his dip net. If someone was coming by, he would not land the fish, sometimes he one lose one, but he does not bring attention to a brush pile.

Not everyone that crappie fishes can afford a SI. And many of those are trying to learn.

I long line troll and the problem I have is bass fishermen. If I am trolling about 30 yards from the bank, it never fails that her comes a bass fisherman with a 200 plus hp, right in front of me. Ask one guy, what is your hurry, his response was "I need to get on the hole before you, what's your problem?" This is a public lake.

Sounds like a man driving down a road and he wants his share which is down the middle. Screw the rest of the drivers.

Thank god, we only have to deal with the 10% of the fishermen who are jerks. The 90% of use fish for fun.

See you April 1.

Chuck

[smashdn]

Once its in the lake it is fair game.

[cnorf]

It happed on Green to me Sat. Had the gps from the new hides that the fish and game had put in and a guy came within 20 ft behind me while I was fishing and within 3 ft of my long rods - running his big motor and then cut as close as he could in front of me. Usually have a bass rod rigged in the boat, but not this time. I believe I would have given him a lure upside of his head. lol....