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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?
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 :scratchhead . Couldn't tell ya if we caught any fish that day but I sure remember that story.
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!
Never had anything happen to me as bad as those incidents & hope I don't.
SeaArk around here a marker buoy is an open invitation for these fools to come fish your spot:yikes it seems that Rudeness knows no bounds anymore.
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!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by JD1
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.
Take their picture:yikes and post it. Be sure to get boat number. Nothing like seeing:Doh: yourselfnonononononononono <*)}}}><
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.
Fished Blood River Saturday for the first time ever. I have no clue how to fish for Crappie, but I am trying to learn and I had my Father-in-law who also wants to learn. Anyway I go out of my way to avoid everyone spider-rigging and trolling or looking like they knew what they were doing. I picked a spot close enough to the bank that I could attempt to bass fish while the father-in-law crappie fished. I idled down it about 200 yards and found some structure, turned and dropped the trolling motor to get back on the structure which was 50 yards behind me by the time i shut down and got the trolling motor down. Before i could get there someone about 1/4 mile away jumps up on plane comes over and drops off of plane just on the other side of the structure right in front of me and starts putting spider rig poles out. He is coming straight towards us. I turn to let him have the area and start going the same way as him about 50 yards ahead of him. I'm going slow beating the bank from about 15 yards out and in 12 feet of water. He comes up behind me, swerves around me and cuts in front of me. My father-in-law saw I was getting hot and said to let it go. I was thinking I could throw a rattle trap on 65# braid and catch his rear deck and let him put me. If my in-law had not been there it would have gotten ugly.
This was not this guys first time out. His boat was set up for crappie with all the bells and whistles and you would think if he spends any time on Blood River as crowded as it was Friday and Saturday he would have learned some manners
So you, as a self-professed bass fisherman, are ready to get ugly with a crappie fisherman who cut you off? I personally find that hilarious since most crappie fishermen have been cut off by bass fishermen all our lives.Quote:
Originally Posted by ctf58
truth of the matter is they are not necessarily rude, there is just no common sense anymore. For example this past weekend at barkley we were fishing the banks up around the holiday hills reosort, on eddy creek, when a couple of guys run past us at a distance of less than 100 yards to only come back and do it less than a hour later. Man was it ticking me off.
There's only so much bank to fish. Given how popular KY and Barkley have become for the occasional angler with a fresh tank of gas bent on catching the spawn, you can expect to have people come by in close proximity or run up ahead of you. The lakes are big but the areas to key on are not unlimited... and apparently there's no shortage of gas money for long distance fishing trips. Turn on your depth finder and you can instantly see every contour on the lake and there's getting to be a lot more of people's personal structure that some goober has located and uploaded to the internet after he got home for the whole world to download.
You can either cuss and keep fishing or stay at home. Those are about the only options you have. You can almost walk across every bay on the lake on boats right now and some guys must find it humorous to use those boats as a slolam course to test out their boat's performance as they come and go.
You guys should try living here and experiencing it every time you put your boat in the water.
Chaunc and I were out on a popular KY Lake bay Friday. We had a bass boat come by us no father than 40 yards away, doing at least 60mph. There was no less than 200 yards of open water on the side he came by us but he chose to try to impress us with his $50K glitter rig at close proximity. Did we like it? No. Were we impressed? No. Has it happened before to both of us? Yes and many times for my part.If I had not been in the presence of my friend, I probably would have given the guy a one-finger salute at 40 yards but not try to run him down to kick his butt. It happens, get over it or find a nice, calm pond to fish in.
You don't need to be on KY or Barkley just any public water! I don't hold back I let them have it with full force. I might get shot or embarass whoever is with me but I am "always" curtious and I make sure that if your not you will know what I think. Maybe they will get the picture. If you want my spot wait till I move off and it is all yours. Unfortunately an older guy with his son and "grandson" pulled up on me and the wife and started casting jigs into our bobbers will fishing and you know what happen. I am sorry the Kid got caught the middle but the two older guys should have more sense than to put that kid in that position. Hopefully the kids dad told the old man to keep his distance and give others some respect. I know they have not crossed me since.
If someone comes up on my spot Ill just crank up and blow it out with my prop wash. The bass boats don't bother me if they are on plane and stay away. I hate it when they are plowing water at 15 MPH in 6 feet making a huge wake and looking at their sonar for fish that they are running off.
Usually someone that buzzes by will stir the fish up when it slows.
First, Sorry some "bass fisherman" have cut you off, but I have never come within 200 yards of someone fishing unless I think they need assistance or there is no other option because of where they chose to fish (like someone fishin the edge of a narrow navigation channel). I do not profess to be a "bass fisherman", but I do profess to be a "polite fisherman". As my post states "I turn to let him have the area..." I believe in turn the other cheek, but I only have 2 cheeks, after that you have to take up for yourself. Yes, we would have definitely had words (that is what I meant by ugly) if my father-in-law had not been there after the 2nd infraction of fishing etiquette. Glad you found my post hilarious and I hope that no glittery boats offend you in the future. Good luck and happy fishing.:cheers2Quote:
Originally Posted by mrdux
Guys .... I'll leave this thread open, so ya'll can rant, as long as it doesn't get "personal" between members.
Myself ... I haven't had many of these "problems" ya'll are ranting about ... but, times I have had people "intrude" on my space, it's been an equal number of species specific anglers. And, as for the glitter rockets making waves ... if they're 100yds away & running WOT, then I'm fine with that. Even if they're 100ft away & running WOT, I'm fine with that. It's when they're running half throttle & plowing the water, that they're making it difficult. That goes the same for smaller boats, & especially those that are overcrowded with people/gear to the point where they can just barely get on plane.
... cp :kewl
I wonder the same thing almost every time I go duck hunting. This year opening morning up in Illinois, had guys move in on us before sun up and it just about got em shot. They set up within about 40 yards and we didn't see them til after a buddy had pulled up on a bird that sat down on the water. Luckily he held off since we weren't sure where they were. 5 Mins later we look over and there is a guy peeking around a tree at us 40 yards in a straight line from where that bird had been sitting. Things could have gotten real bad if my buddy had pulled the trigger. There have been many times that I have arrived at the spot I wanted to hunt or fish and found someone else there...I simply move on to choice number 2. I wish others would do the same.
Chris
Waking other boats in the act of fishing can be illegal in Kentucky, pending which lake you happen to be on:
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ON ALL KENTUCKY FISH
& WILDLIFE-OWNED/
MANAGED LAKES:
Boaters must use idle speed
(slowest speed possible to maintain
maneuverability of a boat)
when passing another boat with
an occupant actively engaged in
fishing.
http://fw.ky.gov/pdf/2013fishguideboatingindex.pdf
ctf58 I was on Blood River too this weekend. I really think it would of been very difficult to keep 200 yards from a fisherman so I certainly understand your frustration. I too was working a bank on Sunday and came up on a boat twice that was anchored along the bank each time I was planning on going around him away from the bank. I was long line trolling, each time I talked to him as he went around me and he actually moved before I had a chance to go around him. Just small talk about what fish we weren't catching. This man had to be the most polite person I ever met. Too bad we don't hear more about those fisherman. It is kind of funny though when you think about it. Once this weekend I stopped at a ledge out on Kentucky Lake. I not a boat in site all of a sudden there were three boats around me and again almost that quick all three were gone. I just don't get too excited anymore if I catch fish. great. If not life goes on. I won't let someone ruin my time on the lake. I didn"t talk to anyone that was catching a lot of crappie perhaps the bite adds to the frustration.
Unfortunately that situation is what you get when people keep reading advice of "just look for the boats and you'll find the fish".
You can look at the number of people viewing any particular forum on here and there is most always 20+ people looking at Kentucky pretty much any time you log on. Many of those aren't even members, just internet scouters looking for a hot tip on where to go. That's why you'll never see me give anyone fishing reports or area tips here for general consumption. I keep those to PM's. I learned that lesson a long time ago on duck hunting forums. If you don't like company, don't put an open invite out to the world. :twocents
I know one person from Ohio had fun trying to get their truck and trailer out to load their boat Saturday. That's why the state has parking spots painted on the lot and if you cared to look, you would have seen that there's not one right at the top of the ramp, numbskull.
Guy had the whole ramp blocked with his trailer after parking sideways right in front it so he wouldn't have to walk.
Welcome to KY Lake. Learn some manners.
Things like that are what I run into most or people that back down the ramp then proceed to make their boat ready to launch. I've seen times when they take 10 to 15 minutes loading gear and so fourth.Quote:
Originally Posted by Quackrstackr
I see the people that park on the ramp to get ready a lot too. What frosted me was this guy had just taken off and said to heck with anyone else that wanted to launch or needed to load up to leave until he decided that he was done for the day.
I saw a pick-up that belonged to a commercial fisherman with a piece of limestone rip-rap deposited into the windshield when it was left blocking access to a public ramp. Granted, I had nothing to do with it but would be lying if I said I haven't thought about that same thing happening in similar situations.