Reply With QuoteYou could have reported him for dredging in loz....its illegal without the proper permits and ameren nor the usace do not give them in very many circumstances.
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Crappie Wall Hanger II
I actually had a guy come out and harass me last summer for fishing 75 feet OFF his dock on a brush pile. I was anchored electronically and not going anywhere. It was about 8 feet of water. He said his kids got cut up on lures and didn't want us fishing there. There's virtually no way his kids could get cut up on lures which would either be on the bottom or caught on the brush pile. They'd have freaked out about the brush first, I'd imagine.
If they got cut up on lures it was probably from the bass fisherman who regularly fish the shoreline and into the docks.
I politely explained I was on a brush pile (which I could obviously feel and see on my scope) and then he proceeded to tell me that he'd had that area dredged and there wasn't anything there. I left begrudgingly. Especially since I know he dredged and it was just along the shoreline. I saw the dredge working.
A couple of weeks later I was up in that area of the lake and he was being towed back into his dock......apparently his motor quit. Ha! Karma is a bitch baby!!!
BTW, he's hardly ever there so I fish the pile anyway. Very productive. : )
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Slabmaster
You could have reported him for dredging in loz....its illegal without the proper permits and ameren nor the usace do not give them in very many circumstances.
Crappie Wall Hanger II
Unfortunately it was a different lake. Lake Thunderhead in extreme north central MO. Dredging is most definitely permitted.
Slabmaster
Cant win em all...he was still wrong though
Crappie Wall Hanger II
That's what I thought too Ghostrider. I did my best to be courteous to him at the time. But I was furious. It was also one of those days when fish were hard to come by and that pile seemed to be producing. So leaving was especially painful.
Slabmaster
I hear ya...been threatened a couple times by morons that think they own the water...just gotta leave like you did and come back later
Keeper
I have only had "words" with unfriendly dock owners twice in 20+ years and in both instances I introduced myself (gave them my name) and gave them a good look at my boat registration numbers then told them I wasn't going to argue with them and if they had an issue with what I was doing that they could call the law.
One said "OK I'll do that".... but didn't, and the other just stopped bitching and went back to what he was doing.
Harassing someone doing a legal activity IS against the law.
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Crappie Wall Hanger II
I've only fished Ozark a couple times for crappie and didn't do very good. But I hit marinas on Smithville on occasion, which are leased slips from a marina owner (may be publicly owned). Rules are you can enter a slip, but not step onto decking. I keep withing the rules, generally. If there was a private dock owner on a lake that allows private docks trying to bully fishermen, they might get taught a lesson by someone who likes to night fish and has some paint (or worse) for their dock.
Call me cynical, but much of these "I've heard there were people who..." are by folks who want to scare fishermen and aren't necessarily giving bona fide first hand knowledge.
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Got to my dock yesterday, 3 guys fishing rat at my slip, they said are you going to move that boat, well yes I am , but I'll wait till your done fishing,,,, geeze I guess they thought I was one of them cranky slip renters... any how got my rod back so still happy
