was i to close?

[WalleyeChaser]

It all depends on attitude, if it is a well know spot I expect that others will want to fish there and thats fine by me, but it does get a little annoying when someone "leap-frogs in" in front of me when trolling or casting and moving up a shoreline. most of the time I will just move on. But there are times, if no kids are present, I will gladly join in the game and just smile and wave while I leap around in front of them.

If I am clearly moving in a direction and they pull up in front of me I tend to use this method. I have to agree pulling up and moving on lets the other guy win. To often I think these guys do it just to do it. If they were inexperienced fishermen they would be timid and pull in behind with out a doubt. I judge by how the present themselves. If they seem to be ill equipped and don't seem to know what they are doing I proceed without any aggression as not to belittle them. If they obviously know what they are up to I simply motor past aways and continue on infront of them.

[luckydog25]

I had this happen this past week. I have a cabin on a pretty small lake. I am fishing with a buddy, and there is no one on the lake. We had decided to head out and fish mid day since it was calm and pretty darn nice out (last Thursday was beautiful). We ended up finding a good number of fish on a spot that I had never fished. We trolled back and forth for about a half an hour picking up a fish on every other pass. The pass is about 50 yards each way, its a pretty small weed point. Pretty soon a couple older guys (60's?) show up and start cutting us off. I was po'ed at first...I had to slow down or speed up to not let them run our lines over, they were running that close with a loud old outboard, but never said a word to them...but I did to my buddy of course. Then one of them hooked into a decent northern (we were walleye fishing), they fought it for quite a while. We watched them net it and release it and then proceed to yell like a couple 20 somethings and high five each other a few times. Made me smile more than any of the fish we had caught, and we did catch a few nice eyes.

We ended up fishing that spot all weekend and doing very well, I like to think the fish gods repaid us for not getting mad/yelling at a couple fellow fisherman for cutting us off.