Things that really frustrate me about some fishermen.

[Bird]

11 hours ago, galyonj said:

I would have had a hard time not having a conversation with them over that. I don't fish to be a sadist; I love animals and believe that all living things have a right to be treated with dignity. Anyone that is cruel simply for the sake of being cruel gives up any right to be treated with dignity and deserves…some things that I'm not going to go into detail on because I like it here and want to stick around.

Of course. Because trash begets trash.

Have to agree. 

[Manifestgtr]

12 hours ago, galyonj said:

Anyone that is cruel simply for the sake of being cruel gives up any right to be treated with dignity and deserves…some things that I'm not going to go into detail on because I like it here and want to stick around.

Bingo

[schplurg]

I think I've replied at least once already, but after fishing for an hour this morning at a local pond - litter. Always litter.

 

I think littering is probably just one symptom of a larger personality problem with anyone who does it. If you litter, you are probably trash yourself in general. I feel safe in judging a person based solely on that.

 

My truck is a mess with napkins and crap all over the place. Not proud of it, but if someone comments I say, hey at least I don't throw it out the window.

[galyonj]

Went to a new spot late yesterday afternoon, out on the southern end of Cherokee. Beautiful spot, secluded, nobody else around.

 

MASSIVE pile of trash. Beer cans, takeout bags, line balled up everywhere with, of course, splitshot and circle hooks on the end. And, of course, chicken liver containers.

 

I don't know why people that catfish are so disgusting.

[Boomstick]

Littering is a problem. Half of the time there is a trash barrel about 50 feet away. I have found used needles in a few of our fishing spots as well, which is even worse.

 

What has been getting on my nerves is some boaters this year. I'm out on the lake with one of my kids on our kayaks and I see a boat approaching at a rather high speed. I stop paddling so my son can pull up alongside me and give the boat a lot of space to pass by (and keep in mind boats with motors are supposed to yield to motor-less vehicles) so what does the boat driver do? Maintains their general course and actually turns towards us, passing us about 2 feet from our kayaks and not slowing down even a little bit.

 

[schplurg]

 

7 hours ago, Boomstick said:

Littering is a problem. Half of the time there is a trash barrel about 50 feet away. I have found used needles in a few of our fishing spots as well, which is even worse.

 

What has been getting on my nerves is some boaters this year. I'm out on the lake with one of my kids on our kayaks and I see a boat approaching at a rather high speed. I stop paddling so my son can pull up alongside me and give the boat a lot of space to pass by (and keep in mind boats with motors are supposed to yield to motor-less vehicles) so what does the boat driver do? Maintains their general course and actually turns towards us, passing us about 2 feet from our kayaks and not slowing down even a little bit.

 

Can you report something like that? I always have a camera on when I fish so I'd have evidence if I needed it. Gonna kayak again soon myself.

 

Nothing new though of course. My step-dad was run over by a boat while he was floating in the water with his waterski on. The woman who ran over him never saw him - she was pulling a skier with no other observer in the boat, so of course was looking behind her.

 

He held his ski up high and everyone yelled to her but nothing mattered. Straight over the top of him.

 

I should post the photo of him sitting on shore with his wooden water ski in many pieces spread out on a blanket in front of him. He was uninjured. If I can find the photo I will.

 

Was over 50 years ago (he's still my stepdad). When the driver of his own boat pulled him out of the water he "thought his legs were going to have been cut off by the prop"

 

Perhaps mandatory classes or licensing would be a good idea one of these decades? Even Kalifornia doesn't do that so probably not, eh?

[Bluegillslayer]

The lake I fish has lots of junk in and around it which really angers me. Today by budy and someone he knows was fishing at a dock with me. The kid that was fishing with us was fooling around and fishing with weird rigs he made up and he caught a super aggressive 5 inch bass instead of throwing it back he tortured and then slit its throat. He then just left it on the dock. Me and my brother took the dead fish home to feed the chickens, I know that it was just a dink and their are hundreds that size in the lake it still ticks me off because maybe it could've become the biggest bass in the lake. Another thing they did was litter all over the place it was almost like they did not even realize they were doing it, they just would drop their line on the ground. ☹️   

[Bluebasser86]

The littering really bugs me. It's terrible right now after so many people who don't normally fish have hit the banks and are throwing trash everywhere.

 

Another one that bugs me is the "Hero Shot". I see it a lot around here and it makes no sense to me, when guys are fun fishing, but decide to put fish in the livewell and carry them around all day just to take a picture at the end of the day before turning them loose? I'm sure those same guys harp on folks for keeping fish, but they'll stress a fish hauling it around in a livewell just for a picture when it could be CPR'd immediately and they'd still have a picture of it.  It continues into the heat of the summer when our water temps sometimes reach the high 80's. Just seems odd when bass fishermen as a whole seem to try so hard to take care of the fish, especially larger fish (keepers), and then needlessly do something like that.

[Bluegillslayer]

8 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

The littering really bugs me. It's terrible right now after so many people who don't normally fish have hit the banks and are throwing trash everywhere.

Tell me about it, I have no problem with people giving fishing a go at all, but when they are disrespectful to everyone else its ridiculous. At my local lake Its especially bored kids who come, fish for five minutes throwing giant lures, even though a average bass in the lake is about a pound, and then getting bored and throwing junk and things in the water and fooling around and just being annoying to every one else at the lake. Like I said I dont mind people trying out something new but when they ruin it for everyone else their its irritating ?  

[Boomstick]

9 hours ago, schplurg said:

Can you report something like that? I always have a camera on when I fish so I'd have evidence if I needed it. Gonna kayak again soon myself.

 

Nothing new though of course. My step-dad was run over by a boat while he was floating in the water with his waterski on. The woman who ran over him never saw him - she was pulling a skier with no other observer in the boat, so of course was looking behind her.

 

He held his ski up high and everyone yelled to her but nothing mattered. Straight over the top of him.

 

I should post the photo of him sitting on shore with his wooden water ski in many pieces spread out on a blanket in front of him. He was uninjured. If I can find the photo I will.

 

Was over 50 years ago (he's still my stepdad). When the driver of his own boat pulled him out of the water he "thought his legs were going to have been cut off by the prop"

 

Perhaps mandatory classes or licensing would be a good idea one of these decades? Even Kalifornia doesn't do that so probably not, eh?

I probably could report it. I don't normally have a camera as I still don't have a cell phone, but if I did I honestly don't think I would have thought to get a video or picture either.

 

Your step-dad is very lucky that he survived that ordeal. I hear about people getting ran over on boats and killed or injured when the prop hits them!

 

Up in the northeast, at least MA, NY and VT, you do have to take a boating safety course if you were born after 1974 to register a boat. That said, you never know if someone else is driving it..

 

[NYWayfarer]

15 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

The littering really bugs me. It's terrible right now after so many people who don't normally fish have hit the banks and are throwing trash everywhere.

It's been real bad. I normally carry a trash bag with me to carry some out. Saturday at the river's edge I found empty juice boxes, go-gurt containers and a full diaper. That diaper is still there...

[Cgolf]

I run a 16 ft deep v that I modified to have a nice casting deck and have turned it into a decent little bass boat. That said it seems like the bass and musky guys must not see me as a serious fisherman, because I have been cut off by those shiny rigs that think they own the water way to often. The only satisfaction I get is 9 times out of 10 I catch more than they do and they give up and leave. I do make sure to grip and grin a lot more emphatically than normal when they do this;)

 

The biggest issue I have is boaters. On our vacation lake there is a spot that is about a foot deep, that I have ran a few times, but it is much safer to just pull the motor up and go slow through to avoid a random rock and munch your lower unit or prop. I have seen two boats in this narrow channel going slowly have a boat run on plane through cutting it 10-15 feet away from either boat, including one day we had 2-4 feet swells, doesn't sound like much, but they are only spaced 5-6 feet apart so it is really choppy. Someday there is going to be a collision at that spot and I really hope I don't witness it. Also the pleasure boaters that will buzz the area you are fishing and run closer than they should to you, and then wave like they are doing nothing wrong;) Thankfully though most boaters are respectful.

[PourMyOwn]

The mandatory boaters ed class in NH (over 25hp) hasn't made a noticeable difference IMO. We are supposed to be 150 feet away from each other or it's a no wake zone. 

The instructor started walking and said "stop me when I've gone 150 feet." He barely made it 50 feet before the first person told him to stop. 

What they should do is get everyone in a 10 foot Jon boat and buzz them with a ski boat to show them what it's like.

I almost fell out of my PT 175 last year when a skier came within 30 feet of me and another fisherman. 

[Herbert Lorenzo]

I got nothing against people posting video on the Internet on fishing tips and and sharing their experiences online ....but those that name the exact spot where fish are caught and happens to be where I fish burns me up . What ever happened to keeping mouth shut . Talk about fishing a small lake out .

[galyonj]

4 hours ago, Herbert Lorenzo said:

What ever happened to keeping mouth shut .

Snitches get stitches.