Need to find a new lake to fish!!

Just a little venting here as I need to let off some steam. As everyone knows I guide on El Dorado Lake and I took off the last month for relaxation and to actually catch some fish myself. I have been fishing out of my friends boats and have really enjoyed myself. We have fun fishing for crappie, wipers and walleye. Three of us have found a new way of catching wipers and walleye on El Dorado lake and have been very successful during the warmer days of summer. Preserved our new methods to ourselves and now a few others have caught on. There are areas we fish for them and now we are being ran out by others. Some of them are so bold, they will sit on your marker buoy or run over it. Heck, they might even pick it up.

Got tired of the community fishing, so a friend and I went out in his boat, found another spot where no one would ever fish and stumbled into a 1.5 hour fish slaughter. Wipers had the shad on top and we had a blast. Went back out last night in my boat to try again. Called a friend and asked them if they wanted to fish in the area with us. They came in and we were chasing the fish with the big motor as the schools were scattered more than the previous night. As the evening went on, here comes this ranger boat and sat on a point watching us for about ten minutes or so. The next thing I remember this jack@$$ came flying in and started chasing fish. Yes, the same guy that runs over your marker buoy and pushes you out. We stayed there for a little while longer but the chase was over for us and our friends, as the ranger boat jack@$$ messed up everything we had going.

We went after crappie and our friends went elsewhere chasing walleye. I truly hope the ranger boat had a blast and continues fishing that spot for several weeks. When the fish are gone, come find us and you will have you a new spot to fish.


Find fish for your pleasure,
Shane

By the way, we caught a lot of crappie in a short time in brush 6-10 FOW.

welcome to the land of successful fishin??

Sorry to hear that. I had a similar thing happen at El Dorado about a month ago. We found a ledge where we were catching smallmouth trolling cranks. We boated fish (some nice ones) on 5 consective passes. Then this guy comes in as we are turning around for another pass and parks right in the middle of our path and starts catching fish. He had been across the cove for awhile and decided he wanted to fish our spot I guess. I had my parents in the boat with me so I didn't let the guy know what I really thought of him. Unfortunately I haven't had much luck at Eldo since early spring. I was finally able to find a few fish and this happened. I haven't been back since. Definately leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Oh yeah, he was in a Ranger also.

Pictures and boat numbers of the inconsiderate would certainly be appropriate here IMHO.

From experience I can tell you there will be some on here chiming in here saying you have the wrong attitude on this. These inconsiderate slobs aren't looking for fish they are firstly looking for fishermen.

You just need to get a metal push bumper on the front of that Triton...it would have worked real nice last night. And yeah, the walleye ended up cooperating better than those goofy wipers last night anyhow...maybe it was a blessing in disguise that he came boiling in.

Had something similar happen at CCL last June. I was the only boat on the lake and just slaying walleye. Boat #2 shows up and starts trolling south of me. I keep drifting the same areas and soon they are trolling around my marker buoys. Real close. They end up not catching any and I was still double polling walleye. Started making a huge production every time I hooked up. Anymore I would rather catch white bass than almost anything else.

On Clinton you throw out a marker buoy and you will have 5-6 boats on you in an half of hour. I love the solitude when I am fishing and if I wanted to fish in a crowd I would go to Bennet Springs. I never throw out a buoy anymore unless I am the only one on the lake. Now I try to go out on the real windy days when most people stay at home.

Zeepo

Your right, the fish will gone, wipers and walleye can be there one day and gone the next.

I’ve been in the same situation where people wanted to fish the same area, troll perpendicular to you, sit on your marker, or buddy up to you without saying a word. But I’ve also been approached by people who ask nicely if they can fish the same area, and more often than not end up having a good conversation with them. But if someone’s going to be a jerk about it and not respect your space or the fishing area it can be very irritating and frustrating. There are a lot of good people on the water but some can ruin the fun of fishing in a hurry.

It’s so much more rewarding to find your own fish. I really have to force myself to not go spot checking every fishing trip, but just to put my head down and fish new water. I’m still milking areas for wipers and walleye that I’ve found years ago that no one else ever fishes.

Shane, I hate to say it but your boat is just going to be a moron magnet. Ya nee to get ya a little old tracker boay lik mine so nobody recognizes ya:cheers2

Except for the good bite and only one boat part, sounds like a pretty normal day on Hillsdale Lake.

I was on Eldorado last weekend but only had to deal with pleasure boaters and jet skis that for some reason feel the need to blast by about 40 yards away with hundreds of yards left on the open lake side of us. I am continually amazed the past couple years of having a boat again how bad it has gotten. I truly thought one guy was going to take out one of our planer boards out which wasn't even that far out. Years ago when I fished way more there was not near the inconsideration there is now days. I would never dream of running up on someone on there fishing spot and try my hardest to go way around another boat fishing or someone fishing from the bank. It was towards dusk Saturday and we were cruising a bank looking for shad and I totally did not see a man and his son (I'm guessing) fishing from the bank. We were really not that close but I yelled out an apology and to let him no we were sorry and that I just did not see him as I turned the boat away from them. That struck up a nice 3 minute conversation about how each of us was doing for the day. Courtesy makes all the difference but it is disappearing quickly these days - not just when it comes to fishing either.

Anyway, we did ok and it was fun regardless. I kept my eye out for you Shane and thought I spotted you once but realized it wasn't you because there were no power pole thingys on the back of the boat. Sounds like you did not have yours at anyway. I still want to hook up with you for a trip sometime. Will call you someday soon.

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Originally Posted by kopper36

I kept my eye out for you Shane and thought I spotted you once but realized it wasn't you because there were no power pole thingys on the back of the boat. Sounds like you did not have yours at anyway. I still want to hook up with you for a trip sometime. Will call you someday soon.

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Wasn't me. I was at Fort Gibson lake in OK last weekend. I told you guys I was going to find a new lake. Had a great time there. The fishing was not the best but we still had a great time. Did catch some nice Fort Gibson blacks and man are the big...

I am starting to think the same thing as my home lake is Clinton. Yesterday we were the first boat on the lake at 6:00 am, got some shad and started fishing clinton point flats. Marked a big group of wipers and whites and threw the buoy out and started free lining shad with two rods and using jiggings spoons with the rods we were holding. We were the only ones fishing until about 9:30 am when I see this boat coming out of the old marina and he is coming right at us full speed. I think its water patrol so I start getting ready but the stops about 40 yards short of my boat and starts getting ready to fish. He then starts his big motor back and starts coming right towards me until he is about 10 ft away and he asked me how the fishing is, I could have handed him coffee he was that close. I thought he was going to run over my long lines with the shad on them so I turn the boat away from him. I turned to him and said fising was good but could he give me alittle space. He looks at me and keeps going away from me about 100 yards then turns the boat puts it on plane wide open and drives over my buoy which is only about 20 ft away from my boat. We had to kneel down in the boat to keep from getting swamped. I could not believe what the guy had done. I had no time to get a picture of his boat and did not want chase him down as no telling what he would have done. Obvouisly fishing went down the tubes after that. I am going to call the KDWP and see if there is anything I do legally the next time this happens AGAIN.

zeepo

I fished Hillsdale on 9/2 and it looked like the same situation was going to happen to me.

When I launched there was only one other trailer in the parking lot and one boat fishing the standing timber along the channel edge. I went directly out to the tree line I was going to work and started fishing there. I saw this other boat had eventually worked his way about a quarter mile or so along working standing timber in deeper water and around the corner and out of my sight. About 9:30 or so I had only worked my way down my tree line maybe 20 yards or less where I had confidence there was fish in there and had 4 keepers in the box when I saw this boat coming directly towards the tree line I was on and he continued directly towards my position stopping several boat lengths away from me. He didn’t get up to drop his trolling motor or prepare to fish but sat there and ask me if he could ask some questions since he had seen me work this area before on other days. I said sure and he said he had caught a few fish but no keeps and was curious as to how I was fishing this area. I told him how it was going for me and exactly how I was working the area and continued fishing while talking to him and did catch a short fish while we were talking. We discovered we both had a long history fishing Hillsdale and exchanged names. He then asks if he could work the other side of a tree I was working towards and I said sure and we continued talking. On talking I told of some of my experiences of being intruded on by inconsiderate fishers and then thanked him for asking if he could fish this close to where I was fishing.

I felt like I should post this positive interaction with another fisher I’ve had while fishing which some probably thinks never happens for me since I am more inclined to only post on the negatives rather than on the positive.

Since JL (initials) said he was a lurker on Crappie.com maybe he will join in here now.

Good post Lee, thanks for sharing it.

Yeah zeepo Clinton can be bad especially in the spring and winter:banghead