Rude Anglers

[grimlin]

My mom always taught me "two wrongs don't make it right".....I'm still alive because i took her advice.

We gotta ask ourselves sometimes "Is it really worth it?" There's always going to be people like this everywhere you go.

Believe me,I understand 100% where some of you guys are coming from....It's easy to lose it over some idiots in this world today.

[J. M. Richardson]

I dont see why people need to be that rude. I fish a lot of local lakes in Wisconsin and many of them have property on the shore so there are a lot of docks and boat lifts to fish around. One day while fishing with my uncle (mind you this is at 630 in the am) a guy came out and started playing fetch with his dog in the water as we were trolling towards his dock completing screwing up the fishing around the surrounding docks as well. I can understand people not wanting lures and line stuck in their boat carpet or covers, but I never throw near a boat or pier unless I know for sure I can make the cast without getting caught.

It's frustrating since the waters are public and available for everyone to use.

One time though, I ran into some polite recreational boaters. I was fishing along a nice wooden retaining wall next to their property when they came trolling up in their pontoon just as i casted to the the corner where their boat track started. They were polite enough to let me finish my cast which ended up in me hauling in a nice three pounder. After I told them thanks for being patient and waiting for me they complimented me on the catch. Just remember for every a-hole out there, there are also good people who still show some respect.

[senile1]

The good ones outnumber the bad ones by far. I've let this type of stuff bother me at times, but life is too short to spend time much time in anger about it. It happens so rarely that I have to be thankful for all of the polite people I meet on the water. I know if one is fishing in open water areas some skiers and jet skiers will come into your fishing area though I often wonder if it is more due to ignorance than purposely invading fishing space.

[Nine Miler]

Well I have never had problems with anglers being rude. I do have a problem with jet skiers and wake boarders. These events all happened on the same vacation over the summer.

I was fishing the dropoff in front of my cabin. I was maybe 60 yards from the end of my dock which is in about 4ft of water. I was fishing a spook from the shallows over the drop off and all of a sudden I see this 30 or so year old girl on a jet ski fly in between the dock and me. She was very close to running over my spook but I jerked back at the last moment to save it. She did this 2 more times and every single time she just stared at me when she came through. She tried to do it on last time. I was waiting for her with my spook. As she came close I throw my spook out as hard as I could at eye level. I timed it perfectly and the lure was right at her eye level about 20 or 25ft in front of her. She ends up wiping out hard and I am laughing my butt off as she does this. What was even funnier was the fact that my sister was on the dock when this happened so she was laughing her butt off too. The girl ended up getting back on her jet ski and just looks at me again. I yell "Karma's a *****....... Have a nice day" as I'm taking off and laughing as hard as I was. ;D

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I think you were both idiotic.

A few weeks ago I was sitting about 35-40 yards off the bank when this jackass comes WAO, his kid in tow on a kneeboard, between me and the bank. I threw my arms up in protest. He makes a wide turn and comes back even closer and swerves at me, laughing. I scream obscenities. The third time I was ready, he was headed straight for me and right before he turned I lobbed a pair of digital scales directly at his head. I missed his head (very glad I did because it could have seriously injured him) but I busted his windshield with the scales and when he pulled up to the pier I jumped in his boat and beat his *** in front of his wife and kids.

I'm not typically a violent person, I don't go looking for fights, and I don't recommend taking the course of actions I did. However, sometimes the adults are the ones that need an attitude adjustment. 40-50 years ago none of these things happened. Why? Because back then people knew they would get their butt kicked for doing stupid things like this.

Another display by a couple of geniuses. Do you guys really think it is worth it? Why not elevate yourselves?

Lets think of the possible scenarios from your actions...

Guy 1: Hit the person with the spook in the eye, permanently damage her. You celebrate because she won't drive past you again. Celebration ends when you get the medical bills and the guilt.

Guy 2: We'll, it probably will not help to outline the repercussions that could have happened here. I am sure it won't make any difference for you.

All of you acted like juveniles, in my opinion.

[RoLo]

All of you acted like juveniles in my opinion.

No argument there (The pot calling the kettle black)

[Nine Miler]

It's still dumb.  You could have hit her.  A man would have walked away.  If I was there and saw that happen, I wouldn't have been on your side of that argument.