Most of the guys out there,whether fishing or hunting are decent guys. but every now and then you run into some who make you think different,and not in a good way!! Have fun out there and be safe.

 

While fishing Berlin prbly 8-10 years ago, I had thrown a marker out where I had caught 3 or 4 walleye within probably 20 min. or so off the edge I was fishing. It was bang bang bang. Out of no where comes this huge white boat with 3 guys and they literally ran my marker over and started fishing RIGHT next to me. I chewed the captain a new one and he says to me, "hey pal, it's a big lake" I picked up my marker and did about 5 laps around his boat as close as I could get yelling at him the whole time. I only had a 9.9 at the time but it couldn't have helped their odds of catching any more there for a while. I think they got the message that I was pretty mad. To this day, thinking about what he had the nerve to say to me still ticks me off.
There are some real winners out there sometimes.

 

eyeballs.........99% of the guys that we encounter in the outdoors are decent/and have some manners and smarts.that still leaves the other 1%.....which/unfortunately.....can amount to a lot of people to come into contact with.......that dont have a clue and wonder aimlessly about there lives.....Sorry that you came into contact with the lesser % on this fishin trip. Sure can work on one's nerves. As the saying goes, "some days are diamonds/some days are coal.........Just keep on fishin and keep on enjoying your time on the water/even if it means moving.AS for them!!!!an encounter is usually a waste of time. Cause the lack of comprehension and basic brain skills on their part, still dosen't prove to absorb any comments you shout at them. Hopefully, you will have the next 9trips.....trouble free. But that is what %'s are all about.....Have a great remainder of the fall fishin' season....cause winter is all to quickly getting here........jON sR.

 

Every year I have somone motor right up to my marker and try to take it. With me sitting on it fishing! Some people do not have a clue.

 

I had a marker out on Mosquito last spring, caught a walleye every time I drifted by it, this guy comes up sees me catch one and sets up a drift right over my marker, it actually caught on his motor and this guy drags it away across the lake pretending to not see me waving my arms screaming, I quickly motor right up on him and yelled hey man you just snagged my marker, he pretended that he didn't know he snagged it, I didn't believe he didn't see it bright yellow and all, but yea there are a few nut cases out there.

 

Save yourself some trouble guys and use a gps. Not saying youll never encounter an idiot, but atleast there not able setup off your markers.....

 

I do have a good onboard GPS. For precision Crankin you still need markers.

 

sorry dale....guess i was still alittle hot this morning

 

Last year at West Branch I was trolling a pattern around a point I had made about 15 passes back and forth thru the area and picked up 2 nice saugeye. There were 2 guys fishing about 50 yards way watching me after the 2nd fish as I went around the point they pulled up and moved to the spot I had gotten the 2 fish in and dropped anker when I came back around they would not even look at me. I guess they thought I had fished that spot long enough.

 

Simply said, nothing surprises me anymore on the lake.

 

haha seth, remember that jackass in the cigarette boat on sunday who cut us off our trolling route? wat a doosh! but thats to be expected i guess?

 

Why do you think it is that the "1%" is lacking in manners?

 

Similar, but not quite the same type deal...

I'm fishing a bay on a local lake with a large island near the mouth of it. To give you an idea of the size of the bay and proximity to the island, I can cast and put my bait on the island or the shoreline at the other side of the bay. Good Friday a few years ago, I'm in there throwing a spinnerbait and a tube. The bigger fish would eat the spinnerbait when the wind blew, but it took a tube to coax bites when the wind laid down. There was a small tournament there, and 2 guys were fishing about 50 yards out in the lake on a ledge leading into the bay, which is a smart move given the water temperature, but they were only catching small non-keepers. I caught and released a limit, with a couple of fish in the 3# class. Shorebound bass anglers have to select their area based on water temperature and time of year, obviously and I'm just tickled pink, because they're eating! I'm reeling in my limit fish and here comes the boat, pulls up and stops 20 feet directly in front of me right where I'm fishing! I was speechless, and to this day it still angers me that I didn't say anything. So they ran all around the small bay I was fishing, pitching plastics into the island shore brush (horrid LOUD presentations I might add) and proceeded to catch nothing and spook all the fish out of the bay.

My dad and I fished team tournaments for 12 years and we never even considered crowding a shoreline angler, even if it was a key area for us. Ignorance! (This is not a complaint against tournament anglers as 90 percent of those guys wouldn't do that.) There is an unspoken rule among fishermen to respect other anglers space, but I think as the years go by, less fishermen respect that anymore.

 

I think it comes down to teaching young anglers proper respect of other anglers. That way when they are older and out on there own they know what is right or what is wrong. obviously that 1% didn't have someone to teach them the proper manner of respect. and i'm willing to bet 50% of that 1% just don't care regardless.

 

BassCrazy, Money on the line makes some guys loose their minds. I fished the RedMan series in Arizona. On one tourny on lake Pleasant north of Phoenix we happened upon a massive shad feed going on off of a kind of secluded point. We threw our spooks up on the shore walking them back through the boil and had our limit in 5 casts. 8 pounders with bigger pigs following. After culling up a couple times two boats came up to within 20 feet of our boat and started casting into the fray. Fifty miles of shoreline with over 10,000 acres of water and these guys had to fish our 10 feet of water. Thing was we had a ribbon tied to our trolling motor to show we were in the tourny. The two boats that jumped in on us were not in the tourni just weekend anglers with bass boats. When we told them we were in the tourny and ask them to let us fish this spot by ourself they both jumped on us about how us tournament fishing guys think we own the lakes. That just floored us. We moved on to get away from these guys. Oh by the way when we left my partner accidently fell on the throttle blowing out the area with our prop wash. What a shame. He was such a clutts sometimes.
I'm just telling my little ditty here to let you know it doesnt matter when or were, they are out there, and they will get all of us at some time or the other. Unless we stop fishing completly and thats not gunna happen.
Good luck
donm

 

haha seth, remember that jackass in the cigarette boat on sunday who cut us off our trolling route? wat a doosh! but thats to be expected i guess?

I forgot about that!!! Gotta love it

 

I got me paintball gun alittle to late this year,but I will take it with me next year on the boat lol...This one time me and a buddy were at west branch just drifting on the wake side...Wasnt very many people there at all..We dont have anyone within 200' of us..Then this guy who must have been 105 years old motors up by us in his bayliner open bow and stops about 20' west of us..Then he puts out his drift sock,and starts heading right towards us..So he dosnt say nothin til he is about 5' away.Me and my buddy are just starring at each other like WTF?.Then he asks if we are gonna move..I stood up and pulled my knife out..By that time he was close enough to where I could grab his bow..I told him he was either gonna lose his drift sock,start his engine and get away from me,or i was gonna board his boat!..So he decided to call me an ahole and told me to move ..So I had my buddy start the motor up..I made short work of his sock line,and my buddy tossed a pee bottle with no lid on it onto the dudes boat..There is no excuse for unsafe behavior on a boat like that..I never drift within 50' of somone..And as far as markers go,I never get close to one lol..I always think there could be an underwater hazard there ....

 

I had a similar incident Tuesday while steelheading at the Chagrin. I was in Willoughby near Todd Field on the north side of the Mentor Ave bridge. When I got there there was a gentleman already there fishing and we fished and BS'd for a while. We were on the bank as this isn't really a wading spot. After a while an older gentleman was moving down stream along the bank and opted not to take the path up and around behind us, no, he preceeded to stay in the water along the bank and walk right in front of us. He even had to navigate around a small tree that hangs over the water making it a bit more complicated for him. So I politely warned him that the water gets a bit deeper along the bank about ten feet in front of him (which is a hole I had just moved upstream a little to drift into). He appreciated my warning, I guess, and kept on going. The other guy and I just looked at each other and shook our heads. Well, the fish weren't biting anyway, so, no harm no foul?

 

I got me paintball gun alittle to late this year,but I will take it with me next year on the boat lol...This one time me and a buddy were at west branch just drifting on the wake side...Wasnt very many people there at all..We dont have anyone within 200' of us..Then this guy who must have been 105 years old motors up by us in his bayliner open bow and stops about 20' west of us..Then he puts out his drift sock,and starts heading right towards us..So he dosnt say nothin til he is about 5' away.Me and my buddy are just starring at each other like WTF?.Then he asks if we are gonna move..I stood up and pulled my knife out..By that time he was close enough to where I could grab his bow..I told him he was either gonna lose his drift sock,start his engine and get away from me,or i was gonna board his boat!..So he decided to call me an ahole and told me to move ..So I had my buddy start the motor up..I made short work of his sock line,and my buddy tossed a pee bottle with no lid on it onto the dudes boat..There is no excuse for unsafe behavior on a boat like that..I never drift within 50' of somone..And as far as markers go,I never get close to one lol..I always think there could be an underwater hazard there ....

If you start shooting any gun at another boat, aren't you worried that the cops will be there when you show up? And by no means, am I agreeing with the other boats actions... It's a shame that any of this happens, when people are going out to relax and enjoy nature.

 

I think if it got to that point,I would be explianing to the cops how someone tried to ram me with their boat..t would pretty much have to come down to that.I pretty much decided I wont be going back to the zoo (west branch),and probably make Pymatuning my lake of choice now that my friend is moving back up tis way from chardon..I have pretty much drawn the conclusion that most of the recreational boaters cant afford to drive up to lake erie and act like tards at WB.No one is gonna blow by you at Pymatuning cause its 20hp limit..And that lake is HUGE,plenty of room for all..The fishing may not be as good as WB,but WB is only about a 1/10 the size of pymatuning..I have seen websites that say Pymatuning is 13,000,and some that say 15,000 water acres..I think WB is only like 1600..

 

They aren't that bad at WB Iraqvet. I'll sit in the middle of the lake on structure and fish while the yahoos zoom all around you.
If they get in the way of my flying jigs, spoons or blade baits, that is their or their motors problem, not mine. I jus go about my business.
If they really bother you that much there is plenty of coves to slide back into where there is good fishing.

What bothers me at WB is the yahoos who fly down the no wake zone...

 

years ago, instead of a marker, i would use a mallard hen decoy or two, or a black duck decoy to mark hotspots. most guys cruising or trolling nearby paid no attention to another duck on the lake.

 

Rapman you are one of the smartest dud's I know...What a great idea that duck marker would be the best I have ever heard of...Have to get one or two out and put them in the boat...Great Idea...Thank You......JIM.....!$

 

What bothers me at WB is the yahoos who fly down the no wake zone...

Define fly?

I saw a guy at full throttle, in a 14-16'er with a 9.9hp at 9am in the morning. If I'm ever going near that fast, it's an hour before sunrise, or there is no one else on that side of the lake. I was there last Tuesday, and motored back maybe a little quicker than "no wake", but not full, but there was no one else on that side of Rock Springs Rd

Do people go faster than a 9.9 woudl put out?

 

Oh thanks for the nudge on the old brainbox. We also now have our name and cell on our buoys. The reason for that is because we had some dipstick pick ours up and when we told him it was ours he said, it didnt have our name on it how was he supposed to know..... on and on and on. We have had at least three guys try to pick ours up with us casting all around it. If these guys have the money to buy a big bass boat one would think they had seen these things on TV at least once and have an idea what they were for.
Stay on your toes out there at all times anglers cause they're out there and they're going to get us.
fish-on
donm