Last night my wife suggests we go fishing today which was her first time going so far this year. She likes to fish but doesn’t go often so anytime she wants to go I’m all in. She ended up having the best day of fishing yet catching two large mouths, a crappie and a warmouth.
A few hours in and a few other bank fisherman showed up including a gentleman about my age and I presume his son who was around 10. Around this same time a guy on a boat starts coming into the edge of the cove crappie fishing. There is a TWRA placed fish attractor right where he was at so I didn’t think much of it at first.
He went to using his trolling motor and get between each bank that had 4 people fishing plus my wife and I on a dock. My wife and I had moved a few different spots until going back onto the dock and I was easily throwing my swim bait 3/4 of the way across the whole cove. The guy on the boat never caught a crappie in the cove but proceeded to troll back and forth at least three times.
The whole thing really got to me and ruined my day, I couldn’t cast right or properly retrieve my lure when I did. It shouldn’t have bothered me but I was furious. I’m assuming the young boy was home schooled as it was 11 or so in the morning. That kid could have been home on an Xbox but wanted to be fishing only to have an entitled crappy crappie fisherman all in his way on a boat who was close to 60 years old.
The gentleman and boy decided to move and came onto the dock where me and my wife was. We talked to them for a minute or two then graciously left so the little guy had the whole dock to himself to hopefully catch something. That’s the way I was raised, just have some common courtesy for other people. When I’m on my kayak I dont go near anyone that’s bank fishing and If I had a boat that could easily get to almost anywhere on the lake I wouldnt be crammed up in a tiny cove on top of fellow fishermen.
I took the pic as to not try and show much of the two guys bank fishing nor the jerk on the boat. In the navionics screen shot the gentleman and his young son was where red dot is, the yellow dot is the two guys in the picture with boat that are bank fishing, wife and I were on the dock. Again earlier in the day I was easily casting 3/4 of the way from red dot to yellow dot. Rant Over but it ruined my day even though I let it! The last pic is my wife’s best of the day and that makes me happy!
