Super User Senko lover Posted November 30, 2014 Super User Posted November 30, 2014 So today I was fishing my favorite pond. I caught a decent fish and held it up to show my brother, who was fishing across the pond from me. This random dude who was fishing immediately picks up his tackle box, walks over to me, makes some small talk, sets down his tackle box, and promptly started fishing. I moved away from him pretty quickly. Who wants to fish with someone who tries to horn into your spot? You ever run into this type? 1 Quote
Super User Catch and Grease Posted November 30, 2014 Super User Posted November 30, 2014 Yup, and sometimes I don't mind and sometimes I do... Earlier this year I was fishing the edge of some matted grass with lipless crankbaits and started putting fish in the boat left and right, I guess people from all over the lake saw me and decided to voyage across the lake and block me on both sides from moving along the weed edge that I claimed first, It luckly didn't ruin my day because I found some more fish on the other side of the lake... Quote
BassnChris Posted November 30, 2014 Posted November 30, 2014 People. That's all I'm gonna say about that! 1 Quote
Driftb Posted November 30, 2014 Posted November 30, 2014 Around here we might say that guy "Jerseyed" you. (Nothing against New Jersey) 2 Quote
hoosierhawghunter Posted November 30, 2014 Posted November 30, 2014 Yep. Had caught 4 in one spot. Had a kid about 16 walk over and literally throw across me. I was like. "Really dude?" He just looked at me like i was crazy. I reeled mine up and walked off. Quote
Super User A-Jay Posted November 30, 2014 Super User Posted November 30, 2014 Nothing like getting "Poached" Happens on every creek, river, pond, lake & ocean from sea to shining sea . . . . A-Jay 4 Quote
Super User S Hovanec Posted November 30, 2014 Super User Posted November 30, 2014 Happens to me on Erie all the time. Guess there's a shortage of good water everywhere except under my boat. 5 Quote
ABW Posted November 30, 2014 Posted November 30, 2014 *Catches one fish* then everyone swarms to your spot lol Quote
Super User everythingthatswims Posted November 30, 2014 Super User Posted November 30, 2014 One time I was catching some crappies that were schooled up, I was using a 1/32oz jighead with a 1" curly tail and catching them on every cast, this lady who had been standing 50 yards away comes and stands about a foot away from me, without saying a word, and starts tossing a 3" curly tail on a 1/4oz jighead and is confused as to why she couldn't catch anything, I moved down the bank a bit and found more fish, she came over and did the same thing but this time asked what I was using. I told her exactly what I had but I guess it didn't really "click". I put about 10 crappies on her stringer and she headed home. Gotta kill them with kindness 3 Quote
Super User geo g Posted November 30, 2014 Super User Posted November 30, 2014 I was fishing the Davie dump site and had an SUV drive up and unload 3 adults and 5 kids all with live bait and tuna poles and set up 10 feet from where I was fishing. I left after seeing them gut hook three small bass and just rip the hook out . Crap like that will ruin a small lake in short order. Quote
papajoe222 Posted November 30, 2014 Posted November 30, 2014 Happens to me on my home lake all the time, but the guys will normally wait until I've moved down the bank, or off the break before they swarm in. There's a couple of regulars that I got to sit on a spot with no cover and a featureless bottom after I 'fished it for ten minutes or so. They worked that spot for almost an hour before they gave up. Next time out, they didn't give me a second look. 1 Quote
hoosierhawghunter Posted November 30, 2014 Posted November 30, 2014 *Catches one fish* then everyone swarms to your spot lol You feel the park pains lol Quote
EvanT123 Posted November 30, 2014 Posted November 30, 2014 I'll admit. I've been that guy. I work a long day and sometimes I can't drive from spot to spot after work to find a free spot and I'm not going home. I'll try and give someone at least 100 feet. Usually it's a member of the bucket brigade and I'll catch a fish or two right off the bat. I've found its a good opportunity to discuss tactics and conservation. Edit: I also sometimes tell people smallmouth are poisonous. Quote
BooyahMan Posted November 30, 2014 Posted November 30, 2014 This is the same mentality most people have when the salmon start running here. Once you hook a fish you'll have another 5 guys surrounding you. Can't stand it and this is part of what makes me despise fishing salmon fishing these days. Luckily this has not happened to me while bass fishing. Quote
Super User F14A-B Posted November 30, 2014 Super User Posted November 30, 2014 Yes, my granddaddy had a choice word for it.. I cannot repeat it here... 3 Quote
benthinkin Posted November 30, 2014 Posted November 30, 2014 Yes, my granddaddy had a choice word for it.. I cannot repeat it here... yeah my granddad had a few choice words too hahaha Quote
RSM789 Posted November 30, 2014 Posted November 30, 2014 I thought that only happened in overpopulated Southern California - nice to know the rude & ignorant are spread across the country. On vacation in Phoenix, Arizona, I was bank fishing an area with multiple ponds (midweek). As I moved down the shoreline, I caught a bass about 75 yards away from these 2 guys who had set up camp on spot. Immediately, one of the guys picks up a rod & begins walking towards me. He makes a couple of casts in the area I am approaching, so I just walk around him & his buddy, not casting again until I am about 50 yards past them. The "approacher" then continues walking along the waters edge, occasionally making a cast, until he circles the pond & passes me for a 2nd time. He was obviously a very savvy fisherman, for he told me that he figured out the bass were spawning (it was mid-Agust and the water temp had to be over 85 degrees). I just walked up to the next pond & caught a 4 pounder... Quote
powerduster Posted November 30, 2014 Posted November 30, 2014 I don't remember having a problem with another fisherman when freshwater fishing. Even during the weekends, I'm okay. It's the dog owners that really get under my skin. 1 Quote
Global Moderator Bluebasser86 Posted November 30, 2014 Global Moderator Posted November 30, 2014 That's when it's time to break out my patented "Around the World" cast Usually after my bait whizzes by someones ear a time or two they get the message. I also like to move to the spot they just left and catch a fish, that'll really make some people mad. This spring I was catching trout one after the other in a small pocket on a little lake when I saw a father and two young boys walking along the bank. I yelled for them to set up their lawn chairs by me and directed them to the exact location they needed to cast their baits. Moved my boat to play blocker from some other guys that were coming to barge in on the kids fun. My catching pretty much stopped but I had way more fun watching his kids fighting trout as fast as they could get a line in the water than I was having catching them myself. I don't mind sharing a good spot sometimes, but it helps a lot when someone asks nicely before they elbow into my personal space. 11 Quote
Super User Jrob78 Posted November 30, 2014 Super User Posted November 30, 2014 I don't mind sharing a good spot sometimes, but it helps a lot when someone asks nicely before they elbow into my personal space. That's the key right there. If someone is polite and respectful I don't mind sharing a honey hole, most of the time. Quote
Super User SirSnookalot Posted November 30, 2014 Super User Posted November 30, 2014 I never like it but usually don't get over annoyed, one time I did. A few years ago a Hall of Fame fisherman started fishing my beach, we became friends. I gave him some pointers on how to fish the beaches here as his forte is freshwater stripers. He is in the Hall more as journalist and tournament sponsor than an angler but he does know how to fish. A few days in a row I was on a good bite, every time I had a fish on he was casting right over me, said nothing until the third day and I went ballistic on him. A person with his credentials should have known better and have better etiquette, when I got home I threw the signed copy of his book into the garbage. Glad he moved back to Tenn., didn't like Florida. 1 Quote
Super User Sam Posted November 30, 2014 Super User Posted November 30, 2014 Not at a pond but in my boat. Caught one along the bank and next thing I know another boater shows up out of no where and starts to fish in my area. I had a number of choices, one of which was to make a lot of noise and ruin the spot. But being the gentleman I was, I smiled at him, wished him luck, and pulled out and around him. I watched him for a little while and he never caught anything. Had he been a gentleman I would have shared with him where the fish were holding and what baits I was throwing. Quote
Super User ww2farmer Posted November 30, 2014 Super User Posted November 30, 2014 It used to happen often, and still does when I am fun fishing, usually not by bass fishermen though. It quit happening during tournaments when I started to run them.........people know better to tick off the tournament director LOL. I had a guy this summer on Conesus come in on me while I was long-lining a football jig, and dragging it over some rock out side the weeds...........How close? He cut my line with his TM. Words were exchanged. I'll be very amused if he someday tries to enter one of my events. 1 Quote
Super User Sam Posted November 30, 2014 Super User Posted November 30, 2014 Farmer, my friend threw his jig into another guy's boat when the guy got within 10 feet of him on a local river. No words were said but the other guy got the message and backed off. During a tournament a few years ago on the Historic James River, three different boaters encountered a little old man in a metal skiff sitting on top of some great places to fish. He was not in the tournament but he did have a very powerful way of telling the guys to bug off. He had a shotgun! Seems he is the father of a local bass fisherman who was in the tournament and he was guarding his son's honey holes. After the word got out this practice stopped. Some of my friends said they will carry a gun in their boats in case this happens again. I told them not to do that but to smile and when they leave the location go in circles and bounce the little man in his skiff all around. Quote
acmintun Posted November 30, 2014 Posted November 30, 2014 It's just funny that in tournaments we catch a fish and if someone is driving by I've had a guy loosen up his drag a bit and just chill, pretending he doesn't have anything on. Or when we boat a fish we just pretend nothing is in the net, like we are retying or whatever Quote
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