Quote Originally Posted by bgcastreel View Post
I hope you knew the guys who's boat you were circling.
Actually, Bgcast .... we didn't know them from Adam. Didn't matter ... we didn't encroach on their space, but stayed far enough away from them that our casts never got within 20ft of their boat/rods. We didn't cast "towards" their boat, anyway .... we were casting parallel to it. They came in "after" we had already established our "space" in the bay, and we acknowledged their right to be there by not saying anything to them. They were catching fish often enough, & fast enough, that they didn't pay much attention to us, anyway .... and we were catching them often/fast enough that we didn't have any problem with them being there, either.

The funny part of the story was that my partner & I had to go back to camp, shortly after we had arrived at the cove ... we'd forgotten the lunch cooler .. LOL !! When we got back, we asked our other two friends if they were catching any ... & they said "no, nothing much going on". Then I happened to notice that they already had two stringers hanging over the side of their boat !! I told them to pull up the stringers & show us what they had. When they did, they'd already caught about 10-12 apiece !!
The other boat had shown up during our absence, and was anchored. No biggie ... we weren't minner fishing, anyway, so we just eased around the bay & cast our RR's. They were fishing with cane poles/floats/minners ... and when a wave of Crappie would come thru, it was a Chinese Fire Drill ... with fish & floats & poles flying ever which a way. It was a cold & drizzly day, with air temps in the 30's ... and we were entertained by these guys wailing & flailing on these fish. LOL !! I think they were watching us, and when we would catch two or three real quick, they'd get into the "ready mode" ... knowing that a wave was coming thru. At the same time, we were watching them ... and when they started snatchin & yankin, we'd ease towards the back of the bay (between them & the creek coming in), knowing that the fish that had passed thru their "space" would be heading towards the back of the bay. Everybody was catching fish & having a blast ... so there was no reason for any animosity.

Here's the results of that day :



I'm pretty sure their stringers looked about the same ...

... cp