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

If its a dock selling gas they do not want you to fish around their gas lines which usually run under the dock and if they have signs posted no fishing allowed around dock and shine a light in your face with a pistol its time to leave.In the summer time with lots of folks around not a good time.Empty dock no $50,000 dollar ski rig might not want to fish around unless it's 2:30 in the morning. if they shine a light in yours eyes again its time to leave!!!! All I want to do is fish the water under the dock or brushpile nothing wrong with that!!!!!!

friend told me the same thing recently happened to him, so he got three buddies to come over and fish the same dock with him next day... not really nice, but funny.
Fact is, common sense is sorely missing from most of our society today....and when it comes to "mine....mine...mine", it is a bunch of supposed adults acting live preschoolers.
Next time you get yelled at, suggest they take a timeout, or a nap. Happy and safe 4th to all. I would like to say am going fishing, but w/temp pushing 100, think I will take another nap.

Originally Posted by OLDFISHERMAN

friend told me the same thing recently happened to him, so he got three buddies to come over and fish the same dock with him next day... not really nice, but funny.
Fact is, common sense is sorely missing from most of our society today....and when it comes to "mine....mine...mine", it is a bunch of supposed adults acting live preschoolers.
Next time you get yelled at, suggest they take a timeout, or a nap. Happy and safe 4th to all. I would like to say am going fishing, but w/temp pushing 100, think I will take another nap.

Yeah so many people worry about dock owners doing things when I'm not sure they realize in a court of law they are just as guilty for pointing guns, shooting, ect at boats on a public lake....make one good example out of somebody and it all ends! I won't fish around boats much because I don't wanna risk bouncing a bait off a shiney new boat and most of the time the boats parked out there are from rich folks so they are new and expensive. Some folks think money can buy anything and in this World it just about can but public is still public. They shine a light in my eyes, I got one too! Other night on Hamelton I wante to troll up in a small neck and shine the light for bream beds. Well it was beside a dock and I noticed the owners watching, not a problem there as I wouldn't want someone stepping out on my dock either. They never said anything though, since it was like midnight out there i'm sure they were worried but all I wannted to do was find bream beds while bassin.

Old River lake in Scott, AR has some possessive owners on it. That was my favorite lake when I lived down there, had various levels of "desires" expressed by owners about their docks and/or nearby brush piles. One old fart starting throwing rocks, not at me, but at the water to scare the fish. Only made me want to fish it more, which I did. Nice little triangle of brush he had out there, nice of him to provide that for us.

I did violate the no touch rule one day, got hung up, broke off, jig was exposed between two slats, noticing kids toys and indicators that young ones played there I eased up to remove the jig, fella came out getting snotty about me be ON his dock. I wasn't on it, but had a hand on it as I leaned in to get the jig. Trying to explain my thoughts didn't help, he told me to stay far away or he'd call the cops. "Good luck with that", is all I had to say.

They own the structure, not the water under it nor anything they've placed on the bottom as fish attractors.

Be respectful, but don't take any crap.

I have never asked anyone to leave my dock at Horseshoe. As long as they are respectful to me and anyone else who walks out on the dock to fish, I have no problem with it. With that being said, if the conversation goes south, it will wind up being miserable for everyone!.

It is not the conversation we have to worry about. It is the behavior. The overwhelming number of people who fish, as well as the overwhelming number of people owning docks, would never disrespect one another. For that small percentage that do, it will not change.
If common sense ruled, we would not need so many unenforcable laws. Have to go. Am trying for some more pre-cooked fish in this heat.

I guess look at it this way. On a public lake where people sink brush all the time these new finders work very well and others can see whats down there all too easy. Does that mean you can't fish their brush, heck no, it's public. We can't very well lease coves in lakes now can we. If they find it, it's because they have done lots of looking and long as they protect the fish there, i.e, don't take too many, weed out the small ones for seed, ect. I don't have any issue with it. Matter of fact as some have mentioned here most guys are cool about it all and they may even sink more along with what you've dropped in the area, helping you as well. Now, I'll tell a guy hey I sunk it so he know's I have every right to fish along side of him there but I'd never say hey you can't fish it. Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you.

Originally Posted by hudnut

I have never asked anyone to leave my dock at Horseshoe. As long as they are respectful to me and anyone else who walks out on the dock to fish, I have no problem with it. With that being said, if the conversation goes south, it will wind up being miserable for everyone!.

In my years of fishing Horseshoe I've had only one person get snotty; he stomped hard on the dock to scare away the fish. The rest either didn't say anything or engaged in polite conversation. I'm the same way with my dock on Bear Creek. Don't mind other people fishing around it & have offered advice about best spots around the dock...fish will come back. However, I sympathize with dock owners being apprehensive about people fishing around their docks at night: they're prob. afraid of theft. One time I had a bass fisherman fish my dock at 3:00 am. I watched him from the cabin and picked up my shotgun just in case.