How close is too close ?

[DockShootinJack]

Too close if y'all can overlap lines. Closed enough I would have accidentally put a few cast into his boat. Accidentally of course

[DrNip]

If you can talk to them then it’s too close. I avoid people simply because I don’t want to talk to them. Not trying to be rude but usually the other party is talking crazy fishing talk that doesn’t make since or trying to tell you how to catch fish. There is a lake here in the winter fish will stack up on the grates at the dam. Boats will be out there inches apart anchored to the grates and just fishing away. No way no how will you see me there. Only a handful of people I would fish close to and that’s simply because they are great friends and great fishermen.

[deathb4disco]

Start coughing loudly and say, “Dang, I just can’t shake this COVID!”

[DockShootinJack]

Start coughing loudly and say, “Dang, I just can’t shake this COVID!”

That's too funny

[DockShootinJack]

If you can talk to them then it’s too close. I avoid people simply because I don’t want to talk to them. Not trying to be rude but usually the other party is talking crazy fishing talk that doesn’t make since or trying to tell you how to catch fish. There is a lake here in the winter fish will stack up on the grates at the dam. Boats will be out there inches apart anchored to the grates and just fishing away. No way no how will you see me there. Only a handful of people I would fish close to and that’s simply because they are great friends and great fishermen.

That is how they describe the fishing after the trout streams are stocked around here. Shoulder to shoulder fishing. Not for me

[db50ky]

Had that happen before!

[whiskerwhipper]

I was kayak fishing next to bridge pilings when some ding dong/youth pastor wannabe in a Carolina Skiff barge pulls up next to me and tries to push me off the spot. I paddle around and fish other side of piling within jig pole length of him. He spots a crappie on his panoptix lurking below. The crappie stops looking at his jig and goes to mine and bites it. He let out a lot of name in vain obscenities. He gets an almighty fish (probably a blue cat or monster bullhead) on which tangles most of his poles and wraps him up around pilings He gets mad and takes off. After a while I paddle back to the ramp his mobile home sized trailer went off the end of the ramp. I told him 3 options he could use but weren't worth a Chinese nickel.
A. Seatow (not out in this lake)
B. Pray. ( Lord won't forgive you for what u said)
C. I could get in the water to help(for what you did to me earlier ......nu uh)

[DockShootinJack]

I was kayak fishing next to bridge pilings when some ding dong/youth pastor wannabe in a Carolina Skiff barge pulls up next to me and tries to push me off the spot. I paddle around and fish other side of piling within jig pole length of him. He spots a crappie on his panoptix lurking below. The crappie stops looking at his jig and goes to mine and bites it. He let out a lot of name in vain obscenities. He gets an almighty fish (probably a blue cat or monster bullhead) on which tangles most of his poles and wraps him up around pilings He gets mad and takes off. After a while I paddle back to the ramp his mobile home sized trailer went off the end of the ramp. I told him 3 options he could use but weren't worth a Chinese nickel.
A. Seatow (not out in this lake)
B. Pray. ( Lord won't forgive you for what u said)
C. I could get in the water to help(for what you did to me earlier ......nu uh)

Run the winch strap down under the frame of the trailer hook back to the boat. Crank the winch until the trailer is high enough for the truck to ease it back onto the end of the ramp.
Help a Game Warden out a few years ago in the same predicament

[maxwell328]

I think we were passing coffee and biscuits back and forth with the dip net this day.

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[hdhntr]

I'm a little more aggressive in these situations, soon as some yahoo starts coming toward our boat or even when I've been on the bank and ketchn I put on a heavier jig and start casting right at said intruder. if they keep coming will put it on their boat at them and say Oh sorry but your stupid intrusion into where I have been casting is YOUR fault. they usually get the hint.

then there is Mark Twain, where folks don't have any common sense nor take hints too well. you get crowded quite a bit during the spawn so we are more likely to take a position on the bank and toss rocks at any intruders.