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Took my aunt fishing for 2 hours had to leave when she fell. We were it Honey Comb bridge found some crappie under the bridge from the bank.Boat pulls up anhors in front of us with than 25 feet now were cut off.Then 2 others walk down on us on either side.Now we have 6 people fishing a 15 by 30 area no way can we all fish this area.She gets up when she see's I had enough and falls because she is cut off.68 YEARS old very lucky she did not break a bone! she got wet up to the hips and bruised.I was so angry and hurt because she was in tears.One day soon someone will pay a price for their rudeness.

hate rude people like fisherman that they think they own the water 50 foot around them. lets see gun boat minnow buckets holes adds up to me

I think Guntersville fisherman are some of the worse hate to say it but I see it every time I fish their . more that any other lake

Why would someone in a boat fish close to someone fishing from shore? That's just wrong, what the (:)/$& do you have a boat for. Think I would start picking up rocks and throwing them where they are fishing.

I'm in the market for a nice crappie rig 2,000 to 5,000 range 40 horse engine to 60 range.I'm through with bank fishing.My son is almost out of college maybe I can afford one now.

Buy a kayak, get off the bank and fish where the big boats can't!

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Originally Posted by alabamaal

Took my aunt fishing for 2 hours had to leave when she fell. We were it Honey Comb bridge found some crappie under the bridge from the bank.Boat pulls up anhors in front of us with than 25 feet now were cut off.Then 2 others walk down on us on either side.Now we have 6 people fishing a 15 by 30 area no way can we all fish this area.She gets up when she see's I had enough and falls because she is cut off.68 YEARS old very lucky she did not break a bone! she got wet up to the hips and bruised.I was so angry and hurt because she was in tears.One day soon someone will pay a price for their rudeness.

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Long lining in a tournament last weekend n Logan when a b******* ran up behind me and cut in between me an the bank in space less than 50' wide. Asked if I was catching them and told him I was until he cut me off. Had young child in the boat so I couldn't fully express myself. All he said was sorry and turned his back. Wasn't on the spot more than five minutes and roared out to cut someone else off I'm sure. Maybe I should keep a couple of good chunkin rocks in the boat. Courtesy among fishermen is really starting to bottom out. It's all part of our new "I'm the most important person here" world. Sad state of affairs.

When I first started running a boat with my Dad, he told me one day when I got to close to a bank fisherman, He said BOY see that man there I said yes sir, and he said that we were in a boat and that we could go anywhere we wanted to go, but that man was limited on where he could fish and it was not right to run in on him. I have tried not to do that anymore. That was 50 years ago and I can still here my Dad say that. every time I see it happen. Besides If I had of done it again he would have knocked my teeth out.

Alabamaal, you have the patience of Job. Some how, some way, somebody would have left with a a@# whopping. And PW1. Everything you said plus jet skis.

It does not matter if you have a boat or fish from the bank at Guntersville. One spot I fish I always get there first and it is close to a bank fishing area. I know that people fish it from the bank and when I get there first I still back off and leave room for them. Other boats will come right between me and the bank fishermen, and everywhere else around me. I could literally hop from boat to boat on all sides without getting my feet wet. Sorry for you incident, it seems to be dog eat dog these days on the water.

Thanx for the responses from everyone it was a tough day for sure,and my youth someone would have gotten hurt watching my aunt lying on the river bank, no one is worth going to hell or prison for ! maybe one day they will grow up an become a man.

That is why I have a boat but there are others that will still cut you off. I fish for the green fish in the summer and the big boat fishing are the worse I have seen in my 71 yrs. I still do not fish bridges very much because of all the thing that are going on in the big G.:bash

i also try to respect the bank fishermen,but sometimes it hard to do.a friend of mine and i went to the honeycomb bridge one morning,pretty early.there were folks already on the banks fishing.we were in my boat an we just eased up in under the bridge,and began fishing,vertically beneath us.then one of the guys on the other side of the pylon said i was fishing his spot.i felt like he was fishing mine,he was flipping his jig under the pylon towards my boat,almost hitting it.i backed off out of respect,to notice the only time he flipped a jig over there is when my boat drifted close to that spot.i was vertical fishing not casting towards him.he seemed to get ill,but after awhile i didn't care.i was not casting or flipping a jig towards him.respect goes both ways i think.

I think you should all just stay home and I'll bring you the fish after I catch them!

Good here.....thanks