Disrespectful People

[gotasnag]

Respect & common sense should take care of most trouble on or off the water. I also have to agree with the post on bank fisherman. It took a long time to scrape up enough to finally get a boat & I'll always give them all the space possible & no wake.  

 

[ClackerBuzz]

not a lot of docks on my waters but i literally see the same situation daily with parallel parking. things get out of hand with yelling and fights.  yesterday i just finished parked my car and there was space left in front of me. a girl tried parking there and literally rolled into my car going at least going 2 mph. i walked up to her window and said 'i'm ok with a slow inching bump but if u want to ram into me that hard you're going to have to take me to dinner and buy me flowers first". she was so embarrassed i saw what she did that she drove off even thought i was smiling and having fun. you should see some of the mayhem and fights that go down when someone even inches into their car. other people like me just accept that living in a city means their bumpers are gonna get scratched. 

 

if you don't know how parallel park without hitting another car don't do it or at least take ur time...especially if the owner is right there.  if you don't know how to skip docks/boats w/o hitting them don't do it...or at least use a senko not a jig...and don't attempt it if the owner is right there!

[slonezp]

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[ClackerBuzz]

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and that was one of my smooth lines

[SirSnookalot]

Where are all these law abiding citizens with highest of moral standards, ethics and common courtesy?  They'e on the internet backslapping themselves, I don't see too many in real life.  By nature people are purely interested in what self serves them.

[tomustang]

Where are all these law abiding citizens with highest of moral standards, ethics and common courtesy?  They'e on the internet backslapping themselves, I don't see too many in real life.  By nature people are purely interested in what self serves them.

They're too busy throwing stones from their glass houses

[Lund Explorer]

They're too busy throwing stones from their glass houses

 

I fully admit that I've bounced my share of worm weights into the back end of a pontoon.  It wasn't intended that way, but if a dock/boat owner had ever held me accountable for it, I would have agreed that I was wrong.  However, I also never got into an argument with a dock owner if they told me they didn't want me to skip under their dock.  We'd simply move along.

 

Like a good recovering alcoholic, I'm now many years past the last time I felt the urge to push a worm into a place I didn't think it fit.  It's also been the same length of time since a topless gal jumped up in surprise from the backend bench of one of those pontoons when a worm weight missed its target (partner Mike's cast not mine).

[slonezp]

Where are all these law abiding citizens with highest of moral standards, ethics and common courtesy?  They'e on the internet backslapping themselves, I don't see too many in real life.  By nature people are purely interested in what self serves them.

I'd like to believe most people are good people. Certain morals and values have slowly been removed from the way people are being brought up. I can't say anymore without breaking site rules  

[hoosierbass07]

My sister lives on a lake in Florida and she and her husband will find lures on their boat dock that get stuck from time to time. She collects them. She understands they don't own the water and the fisherman basically has the right to fish under the boat dock. Her husband on the other hand does not like it but I don't think he goes out and argues with them. Interesting thing, whenever I visit I don't see many home owners actually sitting on their docks.

[jhoffman]

If I ever become lucky enough to own a dock on a popular fishing lake in this lifetime, ill be sure to sit back in my recliner, with my playboy wife and chear them on from inside the air conditioning. People dont realize just how good life is that you can even begin to afford such a thing. Its unreal the amount of money that some people have into lake front homes that they never even show up to but once a year. Guys bulldozing 1 million dollar homes to build 20 million dollar homes then worry about a guy fishing from a bass boat, get a grip.

[Lund Explorer]

If I ever become lucky enough to own a dock on a popular fishing lake in this lifetime, ill be sure to sit back in my recliner, with my playboy wife and chear them on from inside the air conditioning. People dont realize just how good life is that you can even begin to afford such a thing. Its unreal the amount of money that some people have into lake front homes that they never even show up to but once a year. Guys bulldozing 1 million dollar homes to build 20 million dollar homes then worry about a guy fishing from a bass boat, get a grip.

 

It's got to be an awfully hard life to feel so bitter about what other people have, but I'll wish you all the luck in the world that you make it to that point.

 

 

 

And if you ever get that new wife, remember that without a picture, it never happened!

[K_Mac]

If I ever become lucky enough to own a dock on a popular fishing lake in this lifetime, ill be sure to sit back in my recliner, with my playboy wife and chear them on from inside the air conditioning. People dont realize just how good life is that you can even begin to afford such a thing. Its unreal the amount of money that some people have into lake front homes that they never even show up to but once a year. Guys bulldozing 1 million dollar homes to build 20 million dollar homes then worry about a guy fishing from a bass boat, get a grip.

 

This statement represents an attitude that many have. It is the idea that excess starts where my budget ends. Some of the people who own these luxury homes,docks, boats, and recliners have worked hard doing things other people can not do to achieve the success they have. Good for them. Others have the same entitlement mentality as those who own nothing and think because of their economic status they are somehow more deserving. Tearing down a perfectly good home to build something else in my world is hard to accept, for others it much the same as adding a deck; they both use available funds to make the property better suited to their needs. A guy with a 20 million dollar home has the same right to be concerned about his property as I do fishing his dock from my old tin boat. There is always an under-current of judgement in these threads that suggests that because someone has more money than me he does not deserve to be treated with as much respect. It is as wrong as the knot-head who thinks that because he has more he deserves preferential treatment.   

[jhoffman]

Some of you are highly mistaken in your assessment. Would I love to have that 20 million dollar home, you bet I would. But heres a little note for those that missed it in life, not everyone who has money made it themselves. I could see being mad if I am standing on your dock and fishing but thats not the scenerio, the scenerio is fishing AROUND your property and the person being mad about the fact a guy who likes to fish can do so. I dont care if you own a freaking shack with one room or a twenty million dollar home. I have friends that range from people who can fly private jets at anytime they want to any location in the world the whole way down to people who can barely afford to eat.

 

What I do know is that when I have something special I can appreciate it for what it is and how it came to be without needing to run down to the end of the dock everytime I see someone flipn it.

 

Oh if my problems and worries in life only revolved around a total stranger doing an activity they love and me having the ability to treat them like trash because I have and they have not, yep sounds like a life I would lead. Not really, id probably build MORE structure to fish in front of, just cause I could.

[K_Mac]

Jhoffman I don't disagree with most of what you say. You continue to make it about money though. It does not matter one bit whether the owner of the house and recliner made his money or was given it, whether he likes to fish or not, or even if he behaves like an idiot. The only thing that matters in all this is how I conduct myself. I cannot control anyone else, and neither can you. Life is too short to worry about stuff you can't control or to fight with fools. Peace.

[Catch and Grease]

"Life's to short to fight with fools" exactly...

Why bother arguing with a guy about fishing his dock, just move along, plenty more fish in the lake...

[Crappiebasser]

If I ever become lucky enough to own a dock on a popular fishing lake in this lifetime, ill be sure to sit back in my recliner, with my playboy wife and chear them on from inside the air conditioning. People dont realize just how good life is that you can even begin to afford such a thing. Its unreal the amount of money that some people have into lake front homes that they never even show up to but once a year. Guys bulldozing 1 million dollar homes to build 20 million dollar homes then worry about a guy fishing from a bass boat, get a grip.

Wow all this time I thought I paid for my lake house by going to college at night, working 12 hour shifts at a plastic wrap plant to pay for school, working 60-80 hour weeks for 20 years after college, saving every penny I could, and not going into debt for anything I could live without. I never knew it was just dumb luck. Thanks for setting me straight.

[OntarioFishingGuy]

Go flip trees or something. No point arguing about docks, put it all in perspective, it's a very small issue.

[Glenn]

I honestly don't see money, value, net worth, income, or any hierarchy (implied, inferred, or otherwise understood) as being even remotely the issue.

 

It's about respect.  And it goes both ways.

 

Regardless of how poor or rich you are, respect is free; and there are jerks on each end of the spectrum as well as in between.  Character and manners are learned; not dictated by what is owned or earned.

[MemphisFF]

There was an old lady on one of our lakes that would see you coming down the stretch of docks and she would come out on her dock and start fishing. Once you went around hers and were a few docks away, she would go back in the cottage. She did that for years. No matter what kind of conversation you would try to spark up, she would not say a word.

This probably what her day looks like when she sees a fisherman fishing her dock..

[speed craw]

Use your head and be respectful. The next time you see someone on a dock STOP ! , ask permission , most often they are caught off gaurd and get a favorable reaction .I Ihave met some super nice people that tell sure and no but turn around and tell me to come back at a certain area and or time for some nice places to fish and with what lures to use . Had a deal worked out with an old codger when I went into a specific boating dock community he would generally run people off . I brought him cold beer and a sub sandwich that was my toll lol . Some of the best fishing due to lack of pressure.

[Fish Murderer 71]

Respect is earned when it is first given to others.  

[porkleaker]

I hopped onto someone's dock the other day. I didn't get snagged, I just saw an overturned turtle on her dock and went to rescue it lol. Apparently that happens quite often, she thanked me and I went on my way.

 

I don't mind people fishing around my dock if I'm not around. And at best they'll get snagged, snap their line and leave me a new lure.

[Jeff H]

I avoid docks as much as I possibly can.  I WILL fish them if I feel I must but it's a last ditch effort for me.  Why?  2 reasons....I don't want to deal with the hassle of some distraught properrty owner , and I equate fishing docks to shooting grouse on the ground.  If you're an upland hunter you know what I mean by that.

[jhoffman]

 I equate fishing docks to shooting grouse on the ground.  If you're an upland hunter you know what I mean by that.

 

Really? How does that even compare? The bass has to choose to eat your lure, the grouse you walked up on sitting there who has a second to choose to hold tight or flush. You can force a grouse to flush, you cant force a bass to bite.

[J Francho]

Wow. Didn't we just do a dozen pages or so on this recently?