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How do you deal with some one that comes in and fishes to close to you and your spot ?

I was all by myself not a boat in sight and out of now where a boat comes from clear across the lake to with in 20 yards ( to close for me ) and tries to anchor.

What do people think some times.....I guess I'm just not rude enough......I mean its a big lake....go find your own spot......don't come anchor on top of me and ask me if the fish are biting.....

Needless to say I vented on them a little.....but they didn't get the hint and only moved a little.

I felt bad afterwards but really......

If you are on a public lake then unless they are getting in your lines then they aren't too close, I totally understand your frustration but its just the way it is. Last spring you could walk across Turkey Creek here on the boats, its part of crappie fishing looks like. When by myself I never use a net, its seems to be like a flag waving in the air, hey come over here I got one!!!

20 yards? How about somebody pulling their boat up against yours and pushing it out of the way so they could drop an anchor? I had that happen on KY Lake several years ago and I'm still amazed I didn't end up in jail for severely beating a man over the age of 80. Two old guys came around a point I was fishing and literally pushed my boat out of the way and dropped anchor. I asked the operator (with many more adjectives than I could ever get away with here) what he thought he was doing. He said they had been fishing there the last 2 days and were going to fish there today. No way I could blame it on OOSers or somebody who didn't know any better, these guys were local. I was pretty much done in that spot before they showed up so after calling the old guy every name in the book, I left. He didn't care, he had HIS spot. Still gets my blood pressure up, some 20 years later.

You know, your post is probably as much as anything the very reason I started using more unconventional (for this area) tactics to catch crappie like longlining, trolling cranks, etc. Most of the time if folks see me catching crappie trolling, they may move in closer to get a look then go ahead and leave. I guess it looks equipment intensive and they don't want to work that hard to catch a fish. Works for me.

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Originally Posted by mrdux

20 yards? How about somebody pulling their boat up against yours and pushing it out of the way so they could drop an anchor? I had that happen on KY Lake several years ago and I'm still amazed I didn't end up in jail for severely beating a man over the age of 80. Two old guys came around a point I was fishing and literally pushed my boat out of the way and dropped anchor. I asked the operator (with many more adjectives than I could ever get away with here) what he thought he was doing. He said they had been fishing there the last 2 days and were going to fish there today. No way I could blame it on OOSers or somebody who didn't know any better, these guys were local. I was pretty much done in that spot before they showed up so after calling the old guy every name in the book, I left. He didn't care, he had HIS spot. Still gets my blood pressure up, some 20 years later.

You know, your post is probably as much as anything the very reason I started using more unconventional (for this area) tactics to catch crappie like longlining, trolling cranks, etc. Most of the time if folks see me catching crappie trolling, they may move in closer to get a look then go ahead and leave. I guess it looks equipment intensive and they don't want to work that hard to catch a fish. Works for me.

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Most boats will tow a ton of brush... proceed with caution.... slowly! A fluke-style anchor dropped in the middle of it, and slowly idle about 100 yards away....! fish will be right back in it in a couple of days

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Originally Posted by shineehineekid

Most boats will tow a ton of brush... proceed with caution.... slowly! A fluke-style anchor dropped in the middle of it, and slowly idle about 100 yards away....! fish will be right back in it in a couple of days

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No brush involved with this scenario. The water was 4 feet deep and solid gravel bottom. It was within 10 yards of the bank where I had been casting for sauger until sun-up. I have zero idea what he thought was so special about the place that made him act like somebody I never want to be around again.

wow, some people. i sure don't know what makes them tick. Its jerks like them that keep the golf courses in business i guess!
I used to carry a big saltwater spook, on braid, long rod. think you get the picture. buddy of mine used to do that too, till one day he hooked one... yep, reeled that sucker in, drug him up in the boat, and hauled his dripping wet butt strait to the sheriff. but the sheriff said he had to let him go, and that he couldn't do that no more! so, maybe thats a bad idea?

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20 yards? How about somebody pulling their boat up against yours and pushing it out of the way so they could drop an anchor? I had that happen on KY Lake several years ago and I'm still amazed I didn't end up in jail for severely beating a man over the age of 80. Two old guys came around a point I was fishing and literally pushed my boat out of the way and dropped anchor. I asked the operator (with many more adjectives than I could ever get away with here) what he thought he was doing. He said they had been fishing there the last 2 days and were going to fish there today. No way I could blame it on OOSers or somebody who didn't know any better, these guys were local. I was pretty much done in that spot before they showed up so after calling the old guy every name in the book, I left. He didn't care, he had HIS spot. Still gets my blood pressure up, some 20 years later.

You know, your post is probably as much as anything the very reason I started using more unconventional (for this area) tactics to catch crappie like longlining, trolling cranks, etc. Most of the time if folks see me catching crappie trolling, they may move in closer to get a look then go ahead and leave. I guess it looks equipment intensive and they don't want to work that hard to catch a fish. Works for me.

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I would have sat in that spot till the lake (or he!!) froze over before I'd move for those fellas, for one reason only, THEY TOUCHED MY BOAT. Unless I know you and we're pulling up to each other on the water, if you bump my boat, there will be consequences and it won't be pretty.

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Originally Posted by Mrs. Crappie Stalker

I would have sat in that spot till the lake (or he!!) froze over before I'd move for those fellas, for one reason only, THEY TOUCHED MY BOAT. Unless I know you and we're pulling up to each other on the water, if you bump my boat, there will be consequences and it won't be pretty.

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That's the surprising thing about this whole incident---I actually kept my wits about me. I'm not known for that. I have been known to go thermo-nuclear. I guess I was so surprised by the guy's actions I just said my piece and left. If I was catching fish or had just gotten to the spot, all bets would have been off. Hopefully he didn't reproduce.

I have run into this situation several times in the last few years and I just politely ask them if they really feel they need to be that close. Most of the time they just move away, but on the one occasion that they insisted on staying there I just paddled away and then went to a couple other boats near by and told them that the guy over by that log was really getting them and that maybe they should try over there. The crazy thing is, it actually worked and two other boats pulled up anchor and moved right in on top of the guys. Maybe not the nicest thing of me to do, and I am sure it will probably come back to haunt me one day, but at the moment it seemed like the thing to do.

If I see someone fishing a spot, I won't even go near that area, let alone within 20 yards. If someone did that to me, I wouldn't say anything unless they were causing a problem. If that were the case, or if they came right up to my boat, I might be tempted to break out the flare guns and switch to target practice, lol.

My Dad told me a long time age that people that were fishing from the bank were limited on where they could fish, and if I every pulled up on them and he was in the boat with me he would beat the stew out of me. He said it is called RESPECT for others.

I think the best outcome for a situation like that is that you hammer the fish and the trespassers get skunked.

I did that a couple years ago. I had found a big school of slabs in a pocket on the edge of one of my favorite weed beds. I was all alone and catching them one after another, all 12 to 14 inchers. Then a couple guys showed up, in a 20 foot pontoon no less, and proceeded to ease their way to within 15 feet of my 16 foot boat. They even had the stones to ask me what I was using. I told 'em, too - "minnows" - and just kept hauling in slabs as fast as I could put a bait in front of them. They caught zilch. After an hour I had my 25 fish limit, so I pulled anchors and said "they're all yours, dudes". I'll bet they still didn't catch any :Rofl

I had 2 guys do that to me here just a couple of weeks ago. And instantly I was mad. So instead of showing it I just trolled up as close to them as I could and started a conversation with them. It lasted about 20 min. Finally they pulled their anchor and left. They were a couple of nice guys. But they just didn't have any manners.

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If I see someone fishing a spot, I won't even go near that area

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I'm like that to. Unless I know them.....then I don't get to close unless to talk to them or something. I have always showed the other guy respect and stayed away from them... Now I do know that there are times when the fish are biting and you do have to get in close to each other......so there is a time and place for the close quarter fishing...I understand that.

And there are other times that its just nice to be left alone.

The funny thing about it was I was on the Largest Lake in Iowa...15,000 acres of water and I couldn't see another boat in any direction....and I found my little spot and was catching a few.....and I had three boats come clear across the lake to check me out and get fairly close to me and say something about the fishing.....I must me a magnet.

I was polite to the other ones and they moved on....but these guys just didn't get it I guess.

Thanks for the ideas on how to deal with them next time and the funny situations / stories....

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On our lake there isn't a lot of crappie or crappie fishermen and I think I am the only one that spider rigs, or at least that I have ever seen, I don't have any fisherman getting to close, the problem I have run into is pleasure boaters that see a boat with 6 long rods hanging off the front of it and they have to get a closer look, they may not be 20 feet( or closer) but they get very close under power and on plane. This doesn't happen all day but will happen several times each time I have time to go. This year I have started jig fishing more.

That would entail a little talking to if I were you

A little bit different scenario but down here, winter time dock fishing is very popular. One particular dock had been on fire all winter. Me and another guy were fishing should to shoulder, tip to tip on a brush pile and visiting and yankin em out one after another. Just having a good time. When all of a sudden this one guy comes up behind us and literally lays his rod over the top of both of ours! I gingerly told him nope cant do that buddy. Well being as he was not from around here he must have had a hard time understanding what we meant so my buddy told him if he didn't move we were going to find out if he could swim! Well he sure understood that! Outside air temp that day we 37F. Water surface temp was less because we were breaking ice to make a hole. Never had a problem out of him after that.

Looks like sumpin going on over yonder, better head that way.
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Last year I was the only boat on a 5k acre lake. Catching walleye like there was no tomorrow. Only other boat on the water that day comes up and fishes the buoy I had out. I was like WTH. 5k acres of water, 2 boats, and they come in close enough I could spit sunflower seeds into their boat. They didn't catch any but I continued catching them and from then on I made a huge production of it everytime I hooked up with both poles. They eventually left to fish elsewhere.

I know a guy that fishes below a dam here. Lets just say there are some others around here with zero respect for anybody and if you catch a fish suddenly they will be all around you. Well he caught a fish and they crowded in. He went okay and tied on a snagging hook. He then went below the dam and cast as far as he could down the sidewall. Got all their lines reeled them up and cut them. That kept them at bay the rest of the day.

we were fishing a tree last year and had a boat to come up actually started fishing the other side of the tree not 15 feet away.we kept catching them and they left in 15 minutes when they didnt get one bite. the current had the fish pushed up on the downstream side of the tree out of the current, not the upstream side

I have gotten several laughs out of this thread. The bottom line is what several people have mentioned, this day and time there is no respect for fellow sportsman. Not only with crappie fishing but back home where we hand fish people will watch you through binos and see where your spots are and fish them when your not around. Burns me to no end sometimes! Not gonna keep me from fishing though!:fish

the best way to keep unwanted company at bay, is catfish dip bait!:biggrin you know, the stuff that looks like peanutbutter and smells like heck and the smell won't go away for hours?:puke I like the brand "Sonneys the best, but there is also hogg wild, wicked sticky", team catfish, ect.
they tie up close and won't leave? tie up a dip tube, get out the sonneys, and load as much bait onto that hook as possible, and make sure use a side-arm cast so that the excess bait might just happen to fling toward your unwanted guests (by accident, of course:dono). no more your bait hits the water, reel it in while saying "dang it! I flung all my bait off!" then re-bait and repeat!!! it works good and the folks don't have to be right on top of ya, either. you can fling a gob of goo a good 50 foot or more if you "accidentally" forget to open the bail of your spinning reel!:Doh:

fishermen or pleasure boaters it the same thing - no respect for others- this past sat I had 3 separate incidents in 1 day! 1) I was sitting in the back of a long cove way off the main lake (Buggs Island- 50,000 ac. of water) with a buoy marking a brush pile in 10' fow- had caught 4 keepers on it already- a tight s curve comes into the back of the cove I hear a boat roaring & turn around to see a pontoon coming in pulling 2 skiers - my fist thought was im gona have to jump outa the boat! they see that's there's no cove left so kill it & set it down bout 30 yrds away then all start laughing throw out an anchor turn on the music & start jumping in to swim- 2) after leaving that fiasco I decided to go shoot some docks- catch a couple fish & am just all pulled back to shoot when catch movement outa the corner of my eye - 2 kayakers paddling like he.... & laughing trying to & succeeded in passing between me & dock before I can shoot & im only bout 10' off the dock- wonder if they'd still been laughing if id let go of that jig & stuck it in one of em,s ear?- 3) last & best didn't even involve another boater- I go on down the lake to shoot some more docks - pulling up getting ready to shoot a dock- no one on the dock or even on the shore but I see a memorial day cookout going on bout 100yrds up on the bank- just as I shoot the first time a woman comes running down the hill waving her arms & screaming "we don't allow fishing here" all the way out onto the dock- I just tip my hat & troll on off- she must of been Mrs. Buggs- guess it is her lake!--- cant fix stupid

Easiest thing to do at Enid is to get in hearing distance , dial a friend and hang up . When he calls back say " how many yawl got ? 36 ? then say are yawl at Billy's or Bynum . and they disappear !:biggrin

I have had this happen, yes sir, pulled up right beside me, and he started to catch my fish. I pulled up my trolling motor, and said, I just got to scout this area to se what is holding these fish. I drove at wake speed with my depth finder on, in circles, around that fellow for 20 minutes and kept saying, wow you ought to see this, and that. His boat was a rocking like two teenagers were in it, the waves made it impossible for him to fish, but at least I was able to look at some good "cover" Needless to say, he mumbled something and left.
This works as well, but is a little work. Take 2-4 catfish rods, with treble hooks (big uns) and start to fast troll for catsfish. You get the idea.

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fishermen or pleasure boaters it the same thing - no respect for others- this past sat I had 3 separate incidents in 1 day! 1) I was sitting in the back of a long cove way off the main lake (Buggs Island- 50,000 ac. of water) with a buoy marking a brush pile in 10' fow- had caught 4 keepers on it already- a tight s curve comes into the back of the cove I hear a boat roaring & turn around to see a pontoon coming in pulling 2 skiers - my fist thought was im gona have to jump outa the boat! they see that's there's no cove left so kill it & set it down bout 30 yrds away then all start laughing throw out an anchor turn on the music & start jumping in to swim- 2) after leaving that fiasco I decided to go shoot some docks- catch a couple fish & am just all pulled back to shoot when catch movement outa the corner of my eye - 2 kayakers paddling like he.... & laughing trying to & succeeded in passing between me & dock before I can shoot & im only bout 10' off the dock- wonder if they'd still been laughing if id let go of that jig & stuck it in one of em,s ear?- 3) last & best didn't even involve another boater- I go on down the lake to shoot some more docks - pulling up getting ready to shoot a dock- no one on the dock or even on the shore but I see a memorial day cookout going on bout 100yrds up on the bank- just as I shoot the first time a woman comes running down the hill waving her arms & screaming "we don't allow fishing here" all the way out onto the dock- I just tip my hat & troll on off- she must of been Mrs. Buggs- guess it is her lake!--- cant fix stupid

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I would have looked at her and keep right on fishing. When going to an area like that I think its a good idea to have the GW's phone number in your phone. When she starts her bull give him a call then ask her for her name and number so that I may give it to the GW as he wants to have a chat with her. I might have even still been setting there even if I were not catching. But I would hae keep fishing. Have seen people on the yak forum that had video with audio setups on their boats. I like this and the one thing I would want to add to it is a monitor and the ability to make the camera scan. Would be worth showing to a GW/judge while making a complaint for being harressed.

Think i might have found a solution to this. FLY FISHING. Was on a small public lake this week, and the bream were on the beds bigtime. Out comes the flyrod and poppin bug.
had several boats act like they wanted to come see what i was doing, as i caught over 125 big watchband bream on that flyrod in about 5 hours! i did notice though, that they all took note of my considerable flyrod skills, and would only get within shouting distance! :Rofl
Think i'll start carrying that flyrod more often! m Never hurts to practice!