Where is the courtesy?

[Mark27284]

2 weekends ago, the girlfriend and I are out near Bogue Inlet fishing one of our favorite red drum holes. We are pulling in 35" reds one after another. There is another boat beached on the sand bar, and he and his wife are casting toward us and having the same results. Our lines would actually pass each other when casting out. We were maybe 150 feet from the shore of the sandbar. Everything was great until some #$%hole drove right between me and the guy on the shore. We actually had to reel in our lines so they would not get in his prop. Keep in mind there is a LOT of water behind us and no reason why he could not swing around.

I told the guy as he went by that it was ok we were actually just pretending to fish here and he went into about a 5 minute tirade about how he did not see a deed to the water with my name on it. I just let him yell and cuss in front of his 2 sons and never said another word.

The bite was runined after that.

I will always remember the Sea Hunt with a T-top named "Sea Raider" with the Raiders NFL emblem on the boat. I hope one day to be able to return the favor, but I got the impression he is not out on the water very much. 005

[Harry]

I hear you bro .....

Kind of like when everyone is drift fishing and some dork gets right in the mix and drops anchor 004

then you have to constantly look over your should so YOU don't drift into HIM.....

Takes all kinds I guess... 006

[boneshaker238]

Brother don't lower yourself, he can't help he didn't have real dad to teach him the ways of the water. 001

[Fillet1]

The most dangerous people are those that have no understanding of how much they dont know. >:(

[Trim-Tab]

Stupid hurts, Ignorance kills.


004

[Slim to None]

it's like we always say.....Guns and boats, any idiot can buy one!

[Harry]

it's like we always say.....Guns and boats, any idiot can buy one!


I'm proof, I have both....... ;D ;D

[Slim to None]

;D 012 010

[Familymanof5]

I had something like that happen once. We were fishing offshore on a locally known artifical reef. We were anchored up in about 90' of water doing our thing and another boat decided to pull up not 30' from us and drop anchor. I asked him what the heck and he said that I didn't own the reef. We had planned on fishing the reef then dive it for some spear fishing. We at that point decided it was time to go diving. When Jason and I were down we saw there anchor being pulled. I left my friend on the boat and another friend and I went down for about 30 minutes.. We we surfaced there was only 1 boat. the other guy had left. My friend said the guy started throwing a fit and he, my friend, told him that he didn't own the reef what is the problem. LOL LOL LOL Never saw that idiot a$$hole again.

005

TOM

[Mark27284]

Now thats funny. You dive off of your skiff or was it another boat?

[Fayetteguy]

well i have read this and have to give my 2 cents, when i took a boat out for the first time we were headed out to a local island to relax, i was following a friend who was also in a skiff, we were headed out in the channel which is fairly narrow at this point and see a boat sitting in the absolute middle anchored up......im thinking well i guess all we can do is hug to one side of the channel he didnt have any lines out so even against my better judgement we kept on our way. the guy threw up his arms as we went by and that kinda caught me offguard. Fast forward, my buddy left before me and i see this boat come flying up to him, come to find out the guy was super pissed, said he was tarpon fishing....well technically i know we didnt do anything "wrong" however my gut told to just stop and idle out of the channel around the dude but we didnt.....i mean i was young and dumb i guess. long story not really short i felt aweful about it and decided then even while following people to trust my gut instead of following fools. I wondered if he was pissed at the 3 offshore charter boats that came in as we were going out.......? any input guys? I can take constructive criticism, i just want to be a good boater. maybe i should try fishing in the middle of the channel? lol
-matt

[Mark27284]

This is my personal opinion only so take it for what it is worth 008.

If I choose to anchor up in a narrow channel, I fully expect for people to have to go around me. Why should I get mad? The sad part is some of these guys don't realize they are blocking up the middle of the channel, becuase they only get out on the water a few times a year.

When I do come across someone fishing in the middle of the channel, whether it is narrow or not, I slow to idle speed and give them as much room as possible.

[Slim to None]

in the state of florida, anchoring in a marked channel for navigation IS technically illegal. now i've never seen any get a ticket for doing this, but if you anchor in a channel, you shouldn't get mad about people running by you.

[gb1075]

Hey, I got one for you guys. I went fishing at the coast on Monday and thought I had the whole place to myself. Well, after a little while I really got on the fish and noticed that a boat kept cruising by. They watched me catch several fish then motored over within 50 ft of my boat, threw out their anchor and asked if I minded if they fished there. I was pretty pissed, especially when their anchor didn't catch and they almost drifted into my boat. I asked the guy if he just wanted to tie up to me since I already had a good hold on the bottom. As you can imagine I was pretty mad and quickly took up anchor and moved to another spot and just started catching a few fish again when a boat with about 8 people on it cruised up right off the end of the shell bed I was fishing and asked if I was catching anything. I was really mad now and told them that I was until about 10 seconds ago. It's a good thing that I was almost out of bait because that could have ruined a good day at the coast. I wondered all the way home when it became cool to screw up somebody having a good time fishing. I guess it goes back to these people are ignorant and just don't know any better, but I was taught better than that.

[Fillet1]

I typically dont see may idiot fishermen - most of the clueless are tooling around in sea rays and cruising type boats/runabouts. Thats why I try to get out on the water at sun up or earier and be done early as well, or just go on a weekday. Jetskis are still the worst IMO. They are the most annoying things out there and the operators are clueless to other boaters and fishermen.

Our best was the day we hooked and landed a windsurfing chinese tourist in a bay near Atlantic City. We were the only boat on the bay, drifting and this windsurfer rides his board right next to us and through our drifting lines. A bucktail stuck in his wetsuit and my buddy started reeling him in by his leg, cursing at him and calling him every name in the book. The guy didnt speak much english and I'm not sure he realized how pissed we were. We cut him loose for a clean release. We should have weighed him on the bogagrip first. ;D

[Loki]

These types of people are the reason I spend most of my time out in the ocean now, you just can't fix stupid!


Mike

[chumhead]

If someone wants to run over my lines, I let them know they are there, and if they continue, I just let 'em do it and feed the prop as much PowerPro as it wants.......after he pays to repair the lower units prop seal, and they tell him the damage was due to a bunch of fishing line, he will learn to at least give a little room to someone fishing or possibly 'pay the price' again.

I get mad as well, but some people think that since they have the right to go where-ever they want, they need to exercise that right, even at the expense of common courtesy. Most of the time, this is the same guy that will get all bent out of shape if someone does the same thing to him.

chumhead