On the water etiquette?

[Master Guide]

Is there such a thing? I used to think so, till tonite. Me and a few others were fishing one of our local spots here in the northland tonite. Fishing was not the best but we were having fun. In comes a guy from the bay, and parks 50ft from us, and the worst was he parked where we were casting. Didnt even skip a beat he and his kids. Needless to say, we were not impressed, I know the guy personally,(from the cities) and wanted to give him a good toungue lashing, however, with the kids in the boat I decided to refrain. He will hear about it at a better time.

Now, I feel this was a bit overkill on his part, and I know I am not alone. I say, distance at a minimum should be twice what you can cast. Trolling is the same, but more tolerable, but not when you are anchored.

Use some common sense people, it is not that hard to figure out when you are way too close and %@^%#%&# ticking someone off.

[stmichael]

Stay off Mille Lacs you'll have a heart attack.

It is a parking lot out there, you can darn near walk across boats. I always thought about taking a deep diver and casting between the boats just to see how many lines a person can snag. The cool thought would be to run a good ol' red and white, have a northern take it and see how many lines could get messed up. From the experiences with ice fishing you get a snot rocket on and all lines better be up. I would never do this, but, it is an entertaining thought.

[Wade Joseph]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. The only requirement to ownining/operating a boat is money. Common sense and good judgement are purely optional.

[jblabsnduck]

I like how you point out he is from the cities.

The flippin jacks are all over the state no matter where you are from.

I run into them all the time where I fish.

Last time out I had a guy troll by me at 8 feet away and on the side of the boat I was casting. Smart he was. Then when I asked about a little space his reply was " it is a public lake" my reply was " just because it is a public lake doesn't give you the right to be a public jack (Contact US Regarding This Word)"

Like I said, these Yahoos are everywhere and I don't care what part of the state you live in.

To me the worst is the weekend warrior duck hunter that will show up after sunrise and set up 50 yards from you, but that is a whole other thread.

[not_nuf_time]

I can deal with the people who butinski there way into your area, but what really scares me, is when your ancorred up and you hear the sound of a fast approaching boat. You keep your eye on it and it seems to be coming right at you. You keep watching and all you see is heads, the boat keeps plowing at you all the time your not quite sure if the pilot even knows your ancorred in his path cause all he can see is his passengers heads. He keeps keeps coming, your knees start getting weak now whats next, don't have time for the ancor just start motor and quickly bolt out of the way. Its scary how many drivers don't give full attn. to whats in front of them.

This probably scares me more, because all this has happened to me. one time I was ancorred and I had to quick start and zip forward out of the way of a guy, I barely get out of the way he goes flying by ripps my line out of my fingers on the rod and proceeds right to his dock. No sorry, nothin. He would have drilled me full bore broadside.

So know I'm always overly attentive to this. I think I need psychiatric help

[nofishfisherman]

How about a little courtesy for shore fisherman as well.

I was out with a friend on a local lake while in high school. We had our bobbers casted out from shore and we were chatting when this boat with 2 muskie fisherman came by. They drifited maybe 10-20 feet out from our bobbers and casted in toward shore. They casted into about 6 inches of water and retrieved back. They didn't care where they casted. A few casts went right between our lines. One guy was close to hanging up in a tree on every cast. We were really hoping he would have gotten snagged in it becuase we would have just cut his line and taken his muskie lure and headed home for the day.

Those 2 guys sure acted like they owned the lake that day or atleast like they wanted to own the little spot of shore line we were fishing.

[Eric Wettschreck]

Jerks are jerks no matter where you are.

Glad to hear you refrained youself with kids around. Kiddos don't need to hear their dad get a tounge lashing.

[upnorth]

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Glad to hear you refrained youself with kids around. Kiddos don't need to hear their dad get a tounge lashing.

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The problem here is that he teaching them it is OK to be inconsiderate of others. It may have been a better idea for the kids to hear that Dad ain't right in this instance.

[fishinphilth]

It starts with us. Teach your kids respect. Give that guy a tongue lashing in front of his kids (in good taste and with respect). Someone has to show the kids what respect is since their dad isn't going to. It will show them others may not like what they have done and may make them relize there are other people not just them on this earth. Might make him think before he does it again.

[Lake Alice]

This gives me a chance to vent. I took my dad and my brother out last weekend (they don't fish much) at the cabin, we were nailing crappies on bobbers , anchored about 15 yards out from the bull rushes and casting right on the edge. This guy is coming up the shoeline toward us, trolling. As he approaches it becomes clear to me that he is going to run between us and the rushes. He in fact does this, running literally feet, inches? from our bobbers. Meanwhile his poor wife is in the bow apologizing. I said "Are we crowding you?" and he says "gotta stay on the weedline." My brother says to him "Is it Ok if I cast now?" To his credit (and unbelieveably) my old man held his tongue. I don't think the guy even thought he was doing anything wrong.

[Fishin4Life]

What a joke. Not to break subject, but what lake were you getting the crappies on? I noticed you are from WBL also.

[Lake Alice]

It was on a lake way up north near our cabin, which shall (sorry) remain nameless. I've nailed many crappies on the bear this spring though too. I think they are about finished though. Time to fish gills.

[jigginjim]

fishinp, i do agree with you that telling the guy his not the only guy fish the lake. That the least he could have done was comme in and see were the others are fishing. I would have ask if the they would mind if I fished along side them, and maybe try a little different techinic. which could help all of us catch more fish.

[stmichael]

This will go for many Bass fishermen/er uh, persons?

How about when you are working a line and someone cuts 10 yards in front of you? This happened to me twice, by the same guy. Both times I picked up trolling motor and moved to another spot. My son was with and I did not to get into it with another boater (at least with him with) I was fishing out of a Sylvan and the guy cutting in was in a Ranger...Maybe he thought he deserved to have first crack spending all that money? arrgghhhh. I did not say anything I figured he was out to cause trouble. He was not going get a rise out of me. Now if my son was not with, I would have done the same thing. (at least I tell myself I would have)

[PERCHJR]

All I can say is AMEN to that!!! It's about the same here in the NE part of South Dakota also!!!

GOOD LUCK AND GOOD FISHING!!!

[cold one sd]

Have you ever noticed that when you are drifting, trolling or whatever when someone comes to your area they can never pull in behind you? It seems like they always have to blast by you and then pull in so close in front of you that you have to adjust the way you are fishing. After I am done getting the heck rocked out of me I wonder if they think that I caught all the fish that may have been in the area I had already been through. Another one that gets me is when I am trolling cranks the people fishing with bow mounts always have to get in front of you no matter which way you try to go around them. Or when you get by them they have to pull right over the top of your lines and then COMPLAIN if your plug catches their line.

[cold one sd]

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It starts with us. Teach your kids respect. Give that guy a tongue lashing in front of his kids (in good taste and with respect). Someone has to show the kids what respect is since their dad isn't going to. It will show them others may not like what they have done and may make them relize there are other people not just them on this earth. Might make him think before he does it again.

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Ya gotta learn to tell em to go to h*ll is such away that they are looking foreward to the trip.

[Ihateriversnags]

I was out on Crystal lake for opener and had a really good experience with another couple of Bass fisherman. I was fishing the weedline and had to run in quick and pick up another non-boater. When we started out to our spot again I noticed another boat in the spot we left. I asked them how the fishing was and after some chatter I politely asked them if they minded if I fished the inside weedline as they were fishing the outside. They laughed and said "yea no problem. and thanks for asking". A little courtesy goes a long way. This would not surprise me if they were fellow FM'ers. We are a great bunch aren't we?