What I feel is an alarming trend

[Dave Stewart]

This morning was a prime example of this kind of discourtesy.

My clients and I were out early this morning and pulled into one of the largest bays on North Kentucky. Not a sole in the bay but us. We sat up on a point where I was catching fish yesterday and started fishing. Here comes a tin V bottom into the bay and where does he go to set up...you guessed it....he pulled up right in front of us, between us and the point we are throwing at and commenced to dropping pan fish lines in the water. I asked him if I was in his way (being sarcastic of course) and his reply was "no, I am just going to fish for some bluegill here, why am I in your way...do you want me to move?"

Now this was a senior citizen and he did not appear in anyway to be a newby angler. I just shook my head and he finally got the message and moved on....but my point is.....why would you come into a bay as big a some of the state lakes here in Kentucky and go to the only point in the bay with a boat on it.....does not make sense to me.

[DJD]

This morning was a prime example of this kind of discourtesy.

My clients and I were out early this morning and pulled into one of the largest bays on North Kentucky. Not a sole in the bay but us. We sat up on a point where I was catching fish yesterday and started fishing. Here comes a tin V bottom into the bay and where does he go to set up...you guessed it....he pulled up right in front of us, between us and the point we are throwing at and commenced to dropping pan fish lines in the water. I asked him if I was in his way (being sarcastic of course) and his reply was "no, I am just going to fish for some bluegill here, why am I in your way...do you want me to move?"

Now this was a senior citizen and he did not appear in anyway to be a newby angler. I just shook my head and he finally got the message and moved on....but my point is.....why would you come into a bay as big a some of the state lakes here in Kentucky and go to the only point in the bay with a boat on it.....does not make sense to me.

This senior is probably the guy who drives 30 mph in a posted 55 mph area....in the left lane. Zero consideration as a younger man and has become worse as he aged. He more than likely takes 20 min to launch a boat while blocking others and doesn't care.

[dmase]

I have fished my entire life and have seen all kinds of bad players. I wear big boy pants so nothing really gets to me because I have been around a long time and know what to expect especially on weekends on any lake. I only have problems with fish mortality at tournaments and the blind eye that some tournament organizers/directors tend to have toward dead fish.I have seen tourney weigh- ins with beds of pickups lined with tarps with ice for the sole purpose of collecting dead fish.No live tanks or any provision for the long wait to the scale,just a pickup at the far end to place the dead ones.I have seen this more than once with large 100 plus boat tourneys and I always ask what is up with this crap. Fish fry is always the answer. I eat fish,not Bass though. I like panfish and walleye much better. Just sayin,things need to change drastically at the weigh ins and /or a different system of weigh in all together.I do think any lake can sustain a certain harvest per acre per year but are the powers that determine this really looking at fish mortality at tournaments and the impact on fish populations? With the increase in tourny's and other fishing pressure has KDFW looked at the big picture and made any sound regulations that will insure good numbers and size of our bass populations all over the State.I really do not think so,at least not lately.