Rude fisherman

[wmac62]

Has any noticed how rude some fisherman become, I guess the days of fisherman's respect has gone away. Are catching fish so important that you just need to encroach on my spot or so close we could swap spit? I was out on Barkley, Thursday, Friday and Saturday morning. Each day I had boats so close I could have slapped them with my seven foot rod. What the blank is wrong with people?

[slabseeker1]

A few years back a buddy and I were fishing the edge of a bay that had a big stump on it and we'd been throwing jigs under a bobber at it when two fellas eased around the corner and went right up to the same stump. He'd seen what we'd been doing and went right up to the stump two pole-in. Me bein the antagonist that I am, threw my jig and it slung right arond the stump and it hung up in that ole stump. I told the fella, "Hey, as long as your that close to our stump, mind freein my jig up for me?" He looked at me and laid his one rod down and pulled it loose. My buddy and I just looked at each other and laughed as the fella moved on. Sometimes ya just gotta wonder . Couldn't tell ya if we caught any fish that day but I sure remember that story.

[John Wells]

Sometimes I fish below the dam in the spillways. I got tired of people moving right next to me. I bought two orange, 5 gallon Home Depot buckets and set one on each side of me. The other people don't move between me and the buckets. It's been a nice way to keep others from being rude and getting shoulder to shoulder with me.

I don't know how to keep them from pulling their boats close, unless they'd respect some marker buoys. Maybe Home Depot makes them. LOL!

[kycreek]

Never had anything happen to me as bad as those incidents & hope I don't.

[Cray]

SeaArk around here a marker buoy is an open invitation for these fools to come fish your spot it seems that Rudeness knows no bounds anymore.

[JD1]

Get a boom box and crank up some hip hop. Sure would send me runnin.

[wmac62]

Get a boom box and crank up some hip hop. Sure would send me runnin.

Now that is a great idea, I will give it a try this week, so if you are out on Barkley and hear some Hip Hop Blasting, you will know why!!!

[Dutch552]

I use the loud radio tactic in the summertime when people are making passes too close to my long lines out the back of the boat. I fish open water and set my iPilot to record a trolling track and keep a GPS heading, so when some idiot veers into my trolling path intentionally I crank up the NPR and idle the old 2stroke outboard to scare away the perpetrator. It does nothing to the fish and the usual group of old timers out there with me every week get a kick out of it to boot. If people try to cut behind the boat when I clearly have line trailing behind me I switch to braid so that I don't lose any of my $6 lures when they cross my lines. I go out expecting someone to be stupid these days, common sense has become very uncommon.

[Crappie Chatt]

Take their picture and post it. Be sure to get boat number. Nothing like seeing yourself <*)}}}><

[ebb56]

When I was little with my dad on Lake Cumberland he always slowed down when we were passing a boat that was fishing .Most of the time he would go out of his way to not bother them. But as BassTournament fishing got bigger the fishing courtesy got less and less.I have had boats on Barron River pull in and start fishing in casting range in front of me two times in the same day after spinner bait of the back of the boat they noticed me.