Thread: Help Stopping Dock Shooter

This how the Lake of Egypt in southern Illinois stops dock shooters or at least tries to.
G. ABSOLUTELY NO CASTING OF LURES WITHIN 10 FEET OF DOCKS, BOATS OR BOAT HOUSES.

I hear told its some of the best docking fishing you’ll ever find.

To stop the jigs from ending up on your dock you'd have to put fencing or mesh above the floats and up the sides of your dock. Blocking the gaps between floats is easy. Not sure how you cover the ends of the slips. Heck just wrap the entire dock in chicken wire.

Have you tried putting up a sign asking people not to shoot the dock due to jigs being hung up? I know someone will say it's public water but I also know that a lot of boats will just move on to the next dock. As a rule fishermen are a pretty good group of people.


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Originally Posted by jigfisherx

Have you tried putting up a sign asking people not to shoot the dock due to jigs being hung up? I know someone will say it's public water but I also know that a lot of boats will just move on to the next dock. As a rule fishermen are a pretty good group of people.


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I wouldn't make a sign that says no fishing or something like that. You don't want to sound authoritarian but I can't come up with the right wording. What do you guys think?

How about " please refrain from shooting this dock." Won't stop everyone but won't hurt.


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Make the dock an unproductive crappie spot and people will stop fishing it. If the dock is loaded with brush or a large swim deck and sits over deep water then it will draw crappie anglers like flies on a pile of crap. I would just put up a sign that says "Please do not leave jigs stuck on the dock.". This means that you will have to allow people to get out of the boat and grab their jigs though. I doubt many fishermen are going to bother anything on the dock anyways if they are just their to fish. I'm sure they would rather not lose their jig either.

Private property structures on public water, what could be more interesting than that.

A similar problem is on going over access to public lands across private property.

Private property blocks access to public lands — High Country News

LOZ is a different case because the Lake is privately owned.

| The Kansas City Star

That raises a whole set of issues about how access can be managed.

Who owns the water has always been a contentious issue in the United States.

Maybe instead of shooting the docks, they should try this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lkXPve-XAvI


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