Thread: Dock Shooting... Minding my own bizzness.. Then, Please Don't Fish Around My Dock!!

I seen the same episode this weekend and thought that was pretty tacky. Good thing it wasn't me or might have have gotten pretty tacky with him.

From what I understand you can fish the docks, but if a dock owner asks me not to I move to another one

Originally Posted by mdperson

From what I understand you can fish the docks, but if a dock owner asks me not to I move to another one

When a dock owner ask me to take my yo-yo's off their dock, I'll move 'em to another one also...

1975 remote area of canada son and i on flyin take boat to corner of lake where there is a summer cabin and start hammering the smallmouths elderly woman comes out and shouts at us to get the hell away from their dock i move off about 20 feet five minutes later her husband comes out with a shotgun we left 37 years later and my son still wants to know if they were crazy

You remember when the B.A.S.S. had a tourney on Beaver 3 or 4 years ago and had all the high water? One fisherman got his boat shot with a high power rifle when he was asked to leave and didnt do so at first chance. A lot of people dont own much but take great care in defending what is rightfully theirs.

Pretty sure it is legal to shoot at b.a.s.s. Tournament fishermen in most states. Did he miss? Did fishermen have to take deduction for lead in boat?

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That said, I suspect it's legal for me to shoot holes in my own dock with a pistol, repeatedly.

Game Wardens are scarce. Police are scarcer. Fish are everywhere; common sense is usually not. If turning the other cheek is not in your vocabulary, I 'spect you deserve whatever happens next, if you get yelled at by anyone on the water, a dock, a deck, a boat, or whatever. Start motor, smile, turn, leave, find new spot.

Course, I do agree that some folks are fair game to shoot at, like water bugs (skidoos) and tournament fishermen.

I just got a B'n'M dock shooting rod today... Can't wait to use it... They might own the dock but they don't own the water under it... Or the fish... Start shooting at me and you better not miss!. Cause I wont!

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