whats your opinion?

[kissfan4]

ok so i am curious as to what others think about this. on saturday my dad, girlfriend and myself decided to go to gunpowder creek to try for some crappie. well we launch the boat at trixies and begin up the creek, there are two guys fishing by the bridge heading up the creek so i idle past them about 75 yards or so to a pair of stumps that we always fish. as soon as i pull up and we begin fishing i catch a nice crappie, and those guys see me do it. well when he gets up by us he mumbles something and i asked what he said and he said "you cut people off often? i've never seen anything like it" i refrained from being a smart a$$ but it made me think, was i really in the wrong, was i really supposed to get behind them and follow them until they pasted the spot we were going to? maybe he was just pi$$ed off cause i caught a fish. anyway i am just curious as to what others thought of this.

[ekySlabber]

I dont think u did anything wrong. Sounds like u were courteous and respectful of that fellow fishing. Id say he is just angry cause he saw you whack a good'un and guess he though he had claim to the whole dang creek bank.... 75 yards gives plenty of elbow room to do ur thing. It would be different if u saw him catch one then nosed in front of him and started fishing, but u already had picked the area u were gonna fish before u got there. In the past week I have had people idling in a creek and see me TIED UP to a brushpile catching fish and they killed the motor and trolled over to me and started fan casting the same little 5x7 ft area. I just smile and continue to catch fish while they cast all around, its kinda frustrating but that thier right and I sleep well knowing that I wasn't the person to do some stuff like that.
Just my 02 cents

ps: a lot of ppl love to fish that BENt-ROD pattern...lol

[rnvinc]

There's always gonna be some like that....especially if they see you catch a fish...

The lake is for public use IMO.....not just for some...

The only thing I may have done different is fish a spot within eyeshot of the "secret sweet spot" you were wantin to fish until the other guy had already passed....

Chances are that he didn't know about your sweet spot and would have passed right by it anyway....

Catchin a fish (or multiple fish) off a sweet spot while another fisherman is watchin just gives away the "secrecy" of the secret sweet spot...that's why I don't use marker buoys while other fisherman are around....

[kissfan4]

its not really a secret spot so to speak. the two stumps are very visible it is what is in the general area that makes it a better spot. i just wish it had been the 13 1/2 inch crappie my dad caught later in the day. that really would have pissed that guy off. lol

[rnvinc]

Those "visable" sweet spots sure are difficult to keep 'secret'.....

[Quackrstackr]

If the guy was obviously fishing toward the stumps, I would have continued on up further to start fishing.

I can cover 75 yards pretty quickly if I'm covering water and yes, it ticks me off when someone leapfrogs in front of me.

I actually had two guys pull up to one of my markers in the middle of Blood River and start flogging it about two weeks ago. I was about 30 yards from them and headed right back to it when it happened. I might have boarded a boat if they hadn't hauled ass when I told them to give me a minute and I would find them a few more brushpiles to fish for me.

[Jigboy]

Life is to short to worry to much about it. I might have waited also but I also don't think you did anything wrong. He was just probably having a bad day. What really gets my goat is when I see guys flying right by me knowing I am fishing. I am not talking about just weekend boaters but fisherman. It always amazes me how crazy some of these guys are on flying by everyone with never a thought of slowing up. I rip across the lake also but not right up next to guys who have a line in the water.

[Slipped Cork]

I have had bass fishermen do that to me and it pees me off to no end. But I never say anything. As much their lake as it is mine.

[kycreek]

When it comes to creek fishing, playing leapfrog is not unusual. 75 yards is a lot better than 75 feet.