Hey Buddy Can't You Read,the Sign Says No Blocking The Ramp

[skeeter1980]

Got to a local pond about 2pm yesterday,there was a truck parked and left on the ramp.We could see a small boat out on the water.My son called the town police,we waited,no cop showed.Last year while I was fishing,I became friends with this town's police chief.I have his cell number,so I called him.Of course he was out fishing,but he gave me another number to call.Meanwhile a state cop drove by,we flagged her down,told her the problem.She called the police station,and a cop was on his way.There was no way we could get a hold of this idiot on the pond.But his front license plate said,life member of slaughter beach fire dept.Yeah go figure.lolWell the cop called the fire house,they gave him the guy's cell number.He comes in talks with the cops,and reads the note I left on his windshile.It wasn't nasty,oh I thought about it lol.I just thanked him for blocking the ramp.He looks at me,i'm thinking ok just say one word.My son is 6'2'' 265lbs and worksout,so yeah go ahead,make my day.lolHe loads up his jon boat and leaves.Hey i'm thinking give him a ticket.What you guys think?

[MemphisFF]

Them d**n firemen...

[F14A-B]

Just another example of... Nobody else in the world matters! It's all about me..... Ramps? Are the worst places for me... Now there's a lot of great manners shown too... Along with teamwork but it always amazes me how a person can use A 60,000$ rig.. Or a 600$ rig... Bad manners, law breakers run amuck!

[Darren.]

That's downright rude of anyone to block a ramp. I often go to a reservoir that has a small boat launch and not much parking. Everyone is generally gracious to park far enough away to allow access, but sometimes people will pull up and park there and fish despite fishing from the ramp not being allowed and not part of the "shoreline permit" fishing designations.

 

Fortunately I have a kayak and can, if necessary, drag it around them, but that damages the bottom if I don't have my cart with me.

 

At least the situation was resolved. I'd have called the park rangers if I were faced with this situation.

[geo g]

It is hard to reason with plain stupid, and there are sooooooooo many out there. It had to be a very frustrating day.

[Catch and Grease]

Today one guy put his boat by the ramp, parked it, then walked across the street to the gas station. I'm thinking, are you serious? I would have said something to him but I squeezed in my boat and didn't feel like waiting on him haha.

[Crankinstein]

The lake patrol boat has a bad habit of parking longways at the end of the dock at my local lake instead of in its designated spot. Its not impossible to get around it but in the swift current that usually runs it really makes it an inconvenience. Last time out I watched the patrol boat literally drive by a boater and his son trying to wave him down. I pulled up and ended up towing them in because their motor died. Sometimes even the people in charge need a lesson in manners and safety.

[Oregon Native]

Had a good one last weekend.  Guy was launching his "bass boat" with his girl.  After finally launching...finally....his girl holds the boat in the middle of the ramp.  Guess it wouldn't have been so bad but there were two "empty" docks to each side of the ramp.  And then for desert another one launches his pleasure craft and just floats with engine running in front of ramp.  My son has the trailor in water waiting and he finally looks at me and does the math.

[Master Bait'r]

That's when you kindly let all the air out of their tires and leave them a thank you note for their courtesy before you fish somewhere else for the day.  

[Zach Dunham]

The amount of stupidity that can be seen at a boat ramp at a popular lake is just amazing. Nothing surprises me.

[Master Bait'r]

The amount of stupidity that can be seen at a boat ramp at a popular lake is just amazing. Nothing surprises me.

 

 

Especially by the people who by all accounts should know better.

 

 

The amount of casual ignorance and blissful selfishness at play pretty much anywhere these days blows my mind.   

[Zach Dunham]

Especially by the people who by all accounts should know better.

 

 

The amount of casual ignorance and blissful selfishness at play pretty much anywhere these days blows my mind.   

 

 

People don't even have the simplest courtesy. If someone is bad at backing a boat trailer in and takes a few tries, I don't get too upset. Everyone has to learn sometime if that's what they wanna do. The worst is people who drive the boat on and then stay on the ramp for 10 minutes to tie everything down. Idling in front of the ramp blocking other boats from going in and out; taking up multiple lanes on boat ramps that have that option; parking trucks/trailers in places that screw everyone else over; all commonplace.

[Oregon Native]

If your bored some busy weekend and want to go to a entertaining show pack up a picnic basket and go to the ramp around noon to three on a busy weekend.  If someone asks what your watching say YOU ALLLLLL

[papajoe222]

I saw a guy launch and then tie off to the dock, get in his car and park. The lot was maybe 300yrds. from the launch. Then he hit the porta poddy to make a long distance phone call, all the while his boat was blocking others from using the launch. Who knows, maybe the guy had the runs and intended to come right back and move it.  I was maybe fifth in line, so I got out, walked on to the dock, untied his boat and moved it to the end of the dock where it was out of the way and tied it off. 

He returned as I was getting off the dock....................Never said a word to me.

[macmichael]

Once my wife was backing the trailer down the ramp so I could drive the boat on. Well she got nervous because there were folks waiting. She had the trailer cockeyed left, then cockeyed right. Everyone was being very patient. After sheeing how fustrated she was getting, these 2 young men walked over to the back of it, picked it up

and put it straight. It turned out to be a pleasent experience. I haven't really had too many rude folks at the ramp. 

[Munkin]

I was ready to launch at a small ramp once and had a dummy put his kayak across the boat ramp. I had been waiting on what looked like an older gentleman and his grandson so I did not rush them. As they were pulling off I started to back down and here comes this guy with a kayak and lays it on the ramp? I jumped out of the truck and said I was ready to launch and ask him to move it as he was going to get more stuff from his truck. He replied  something like I was beat and would have to wait on him? Well I am respectful of my elders but not dummies so I said I was launching and if his plastic kayak was between my 3000lb boat and the water I would win. I started backing down and he moved that kayak in a hurry!

 

The other issue is the trout fishermen that do not understand that it is a boat ramp and not a fishing pier. This is so bad around here I just avoid places after they are stocked with trout.

 

Allen

[ww2farmer]

I have ZERO tolerance for boat launch idiots. I am not talking about the cottage owners who launch there boat once a year, or an old man launching his fishing boat and takes all day, that happens. It's the morons who tie off on the ramp,  to be exact the idiots who floats around in front of the ramp waiting to tie off on the ramp, while some one else is loading, instead of docking and getting the trailer. I don't know how many times I have had words with these fools. I dock or beach go get my trailer while they are floating around like morons, and many MANY times have backed my trailer down the ramp as they are trying to tie off on it. It gets them in a terrible uproar, but I win every time.

[basscatcher8]

The ramp i use alot on the Illinois River use to have 3 docks and two lanes. Two of the docks were damaged last year and not replaced so now its one ramp with a dock and one without. Well I fish alone alot. I got to the ramp and nobody there in the middle of the after noon. Im in the staging area and undoing straps and what not. i debated getting my rods ready and decided not to just get on the water well just as i drop into drive a pontoon full of people pulls up to the dock so i put it back in park and said ok ill wait for them to load. One guy gets off and goes to the portacan another gets off with some dogs to let them do their thing and the rest just wait and the other guy comes back and they just stand there talking. By this time I'm already out getting my rod ready since I cant launch and they are just looking at me. Finally they get back on their toon and head back out on the river so not loading just blocking cause they can.. Not before they told the couple with the speed boat in the other ramp lane they did a good job cause it only took them 10 minutes to trailer instead of 30. I was beat red by this time got on the water and gone. To get to my first spot and start fishing and two kids in a bass boat run in on me stop right in front of me drop the tm and start fishing........I caught fish so was still a good day lol.

[RoLo]

If your bored some busy weekend and want to go to a entertaining show pack up a picnic basket and go to the ramp around noon to three on a busy weekend.  If someone asks what your watching say YOU ALLLLLL

 

Sorry to break topic, but that reminds me of the Atlantic Highlands Yacht Club in New Jersey,

They provide an enormous multi-boat launching facility, but the ramp consists of continuous concrete slabs

with no partitioning. On the ledge overlooking the boat ramp were a couple of park benches (may be gone today)

I used to tell my friends that those park benches provide the best free entertainment in the state of New Jersey.

Ramp antics provide the greatest show on earth. You can expect a good belly-laugh about every 5 to 10 minutes 

 

 > Novice boaters zigzag down the ramp, occasionally plowing into an adjacent boat or trailer

 > Some boaters can't launch without two guide lines, which looks like they're playing double-dutch bus with a boat

 > Pretty common during the retrieve is an overzealous guy in the bow who steps into what he believes

         is knee-deep water, but winds up cartwheeling over the gunnel, face-first in the drink

 > Then there's the power launch boys. They back down at high speed, hit the brake at the bottom

         and the boat self-launches. Problem is, slippery moss is exposed during low tide. If you power launch

         at low tide, you will likely launch your boat, trailer and tow-car (saltwater soon trashes the tow-car)

 > The list is endless, and you'll see things you've never seen or heard of before.

 

 

 

Roger

[FrogFreak]

I was taking out last weekend at a local lake and a couple cars were parked in such a way that they were blocking the entrance to the ramp area. The car owners were just sitting around and drinking or whatever. I was able to sneak by (I had to go off road). I don't understand people sometimes. I think I've had more trouble with non-boaters at ramps than boaters over the years. It's a boat ramp, not a beach people!

[RoLo]

At the end of the day, I usually work a couple waypoints near the launch site.

This way I can watch the boat launch and wait for a lull in ramp activity.

On this day, I was heading back to the barn and there wasn't another boat in sight.

Then as I was closing-in on the ramp, an empty trailer was backed down the ramp, right in front of my boat.

I dropped Lois off on the bank, she brings the car around and jockeys the trailer in position so we're next in line.

 

Next in line for WHAT?

I'm the only boat in the bay, I'm floating 100 ft off the boat ramp, I'm staring at someone's empty trailer and I'm marking time.

Then I hear the drone of an outboard motor in the distance, I turn around and see a boat way out in the middle of the lake,

heading in the direction of the launch site.

 

You know what that was all about, right?

The guy in the boat phoned his buddy or wife on shore. The accomplice then backs the trailer down the ramp

and has it waiting for the boat. Go ahead use the phone, but have the common decency to wait your turn at the ramp.

Don't kill all ramp activity while the world waits for the messenger boy to motor across the lake.

This actually happened twice to us!

 

Roger

[macmichael]

Them d**n firemen...

Ain't it the truth!!!!

[Dave P]

Last weekend during our weigh in there was an enormous 'toon sitting on the ramp and blocking a lane and a half for a good 45 minutes while he: a) tried to start the motor repeatedly. flooded same. c) ran the battery down. d) replaced same with another battery. e) took the plug out and changed it. f) tried to start repeatedly. g) took the cover off. f) dropped some tool in the water. g) replaced cover and finally got it started in an huge blue fog. He put it in a slip and it quit again but at least his wife/gf got to pull the trailer off the ramp.

[Ratherbfishing]

I should stop reading these.  It gets my blood pressure up without even having to experience it myself.

[Montanaro]

If it was a small pond I'd block the ramp too! I'm going to be only one out there!