Rant, Loose Dogs When Fishing

[bigbill]

I was out fishing and enjoying my first time out in a longtime(illness). I caught my spook in the high grass just as a woman let her dogs loose out of her car

The dog runs over to me and sees my lure. I'm telling him no. The woman asks me if I caught a fish, I said no but your dog is about to bite my lure. I don't want to hook your dog. Then she says "oh" and calls her dogs. Fishing lures and dogs don't mix.

I still have a vision of my neighbors dog with three trebble hooks in its lips. The little kids tossed him a lure. We cut the hooks off with a cutting pliers. This was 30 years ago but the thought of it still haunts me.

We just need to be aware of our tackle around animals. And people need to lookout for there dogs.

[Gatorbassman]

I here ya. At one of my favorite little lakes there is this old man who has this little white dog. If there is anyone else at the boat ramp or in parking lot the dang dog comes after them and tries to bite them and the old guy never calls him off. He did that to me two separate times. I told the man that if he didn't call his dog off I was going to take matters into my own hands. Evidently someone beat me to it because I heard that the dog got shot not long ago.  

[J Francho]

Two words: Pepper Spray.

[bigbill]

The dogs were friendly but one pug was going after my lure.

[aquaholic]

I hate that. I quit fishing evenings from the shore around here unless im going someplace private because of this exact reason.  Ive had people pull up in their car and let the dog play in the water 10 yards from me. This just happened at a spot i occasionally fish near http://www.wndu.com/home/headlines/Dog-shot-in-Mishawaka-220135951.html .So far while ive been fishing those spots ive seen two pitbulls let off their leash. 

[SirSnookalot]

Dogs love to jump in the water and retrieve a top lure.

[Bankbeater]

People bring their dogs out and let the dogs swim in a lake near my house.  I keep thinking that one of these days one of those dogs is going to get stuck on a hook that someone lost while fishing.

[Sam]

On the hot side of One Fish Anna in Virginia there is a point that comes out adjacent to a cove. The cove is a great producer of small bass so after fishing the cove we all meander along the bank past this point heading to the private marina.

 

When the property owner sees us coming he grabs a stick or ball, runs out to the water's edge and throws the stick or ball into the water off the point for his two labs to jump into the water to chase and retrieve, thereby destroying the fishing.

 

I love to go by his property two or three times just to make him do it. After all, no one has ever caught anything off that point so it really doesn't matter what he does. But it is fun to aggravate him.

 

Otherwise, all dogs encountered at the ramps have been nice. Its the people that are the problem.

[Marty]

It's not just fishing. I encounter loose dogs in all the parks I visit, despite leash laws. Fortunately, just about all the loose dogs are not dangerous, but it bothers me that people are so dismissive of these regulations.