Fishing etiquette question

[DockShootinJack]

Actually, I can't bash the millennials or generations xyz's. I've "somewhat" given in to their way of life. Nowadays, I don't mind sitting down to a flavored cup of coffee and a good book.

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I don't believe that would be the book or the flavoring most of them would choose

[Central Minn]

So you drove 6.5 hours,seven days in a row to fish that brush pile...or were you just pulling his leg... lol

[Kevind62]

So you drove 6.5 hours,seven days in a row to fish that brush pile...or were you just pulling his leg... lol

I've driven 22 hours before just to sit in one particular deer stand on one of my leases. When you set limits to what you are willing to do, you set limits on what you can achieve.

[catchNgrease]

In my opinion both of yall need to learn more tactics and more spots to catch fish.

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[Ketchn]

good news here is I have about 10 lakes within less than an hour from my house .
if one has to much traffic I avoid it do to these kinds of situations that are frequent in those scenarios .
for every 100 folks out there , about 5 to 10 are jerks , if you bunch them up around you ....
the odds of interacting with them goes up greatly ....just saying

[DockShootinJack]

Not that many dock shooters in my area. I come across the occasional bass fisherman throwing around the docks. They are always on the move.

[BroKenneth]

Over the years, I’ve had people literally bump my boat to get in front of me and fish the brush pile I was on. I’ve had people literally run over me in a boat while I was wading. (I had to push their boat out of the way to keep it from hitting me.) They think nothing of cutting in front of me while I’m trying to fish a line of snags, or pull a line while cranking. I used to come unglued, and have acted a fool more than once.

But over the years, I’ve decided to just move along and move on. They old saying rings true: “no sense wallowing with a pig. You’ll both get muddy, and the pig likes it.” I refuse to let a pig ruin my day fishing. I don’t get many, so I try to take advantage of each one.


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[WRG]

You didn't do anything wrong. If he was going to fish that brush pile he should have been on it instead of being across the creek. Some people you just cannot please and they will complain about anything.

[Slab Slayen]

Definitely handled better than I would have. He’d have to swim back to the boat ramp! Lol

I have the opposite problem. One local lake specifically, I pull up to a brush pile or whatever dock or structure and catch a few fish or a bunch of fish and then the bite slows or stops so I move to another spot. As soon as I move another boat hurry’s over where I was and sets anchor. That continues all around the lake by several different boats. They don’t usually leave that spot either, they just set and set because they seen fish caught there. It would be nice to go back and hit that structure periodically but that’s not an option. I have to take a vacation day during the week to fish that lake now.


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[TreednNC]

Not to blast kayakers, but they've gotten to be somewhat problematic on my home lake (Lake Norman). Not so much fishermen, but pleasure kayakers. I know there's no right-of-way more so to one type of vessel than another on inland, non-commercial/freighter/tanker type traffic, but this lake is HIGHLY populated. The last 2-3 years, kayaking and paddle boarding has gotten to be super popular. That's great, get out and enjoy the outdoors. The problem I have is when a string of them are crossing a large creek (size of some of your main channels on your lakes), or main channel, and you're either a jerk for not coming off plane, or you have to wait and idle around them. It would be different if it was closer to shore, or something, but usually they're in that sweet spot of being in the middle far enough that to give them a wide enough berth to not be a jerk, you have to go within 150ft (50yds) of a dock, which is no wake too. Half the time they're not really doing anything, just chilling out there like a navigational hazard that they are.

Sure we share the water just the same, but I also try not to do things that will inhibit someone else's use of the water as well, or how they travel. Im surprised none have been hit in the summer when the party crowd takes over the lake. It's ranked as one of the top 10 party lakes in the country due to its size, as well as it's proximity to a large city (Charlotte). I can't understand the want or need to take a kayak or paddle board along with 6 of your buddies and string them out in a train 50yds long, across the lake.

Oddly enough, and maybe it's the nature of the activity, the kayak fisher people I see, for the most part, stick to shorelines/no wake zones and cross channels only when necessary for travel, unless it's cooler weather and less traffic on the lake.