Keepin it all in perspective

[Kentucky Mark]

I thought I would share a story about fishing on Barkley last week. My 10 year old Daughter and I had been fishing hard for crappie for 2 straight days with very little success. The 3rd day(Saturday) i shifted to Bass fishing and was having a ball. We were catching lots of short fish and her casting was great and the day was gorgeous.
By the way did you know you can bass fish and dance to Hannah Montanna at the same time? She can!

At 10:30 the North end of the lake was not short of fisherman especially on coves protected from the wind and secondary points. She and I were in a 19' Bass cat fishing a point about 100 yards behind another boat both boats working the same direction down the point and actually around the other side.

Here comes the rooster tailing boat into the cove and the fella cuts the engine 20 yards from our boat. He did aplogize as it was very apparent he was sending a roller over the bow of my boat. Sure enough it just poured water all over the deck and got everything inside drenched.

Honestly I considered that a mistake that was unintentional as the guy probably was thinking about catching fish and not boating manners. But when he started fishing 30 yards ahead of me I told him that i thought he was a tad selfish and i am sure he had good reasons to fish that area and leave real quick but that we all need to use the sandbox and get along and not throw sand!

My daughter just wanted to go home after that!

My point-- regardless of who is out on the water- they came to enjoy themselves as well. Lets not give any of us (big boat, small boat, fast boat, slow boat)a bad reputation because we are on our own mission!!




JUST KEEPING IT IN PERSPECTIVE

REGARDS

[speck03dpl]

It is sad but I think all of us run into that more and more each year. At those two lakes if I see a guy fishing a tourny if he has KY plates I will let him fish through and I will say this I have never had someone with KY plates do that to me yet seams like we have more respect than that. But in the past weather it be weekenders or tourny fisherman it is almost always a IL or MO plate. Sorry but thats just the way it has happened to the ppl I fish with on Ky lake. Was fishing with a Ky game Warden off duty down there w=one time and had a guy come past us on full plane 15ft away we were 10 yards away from a bank so we werent even close to the channel. Well we did get his plates and lets just say I think he learned his lesson

[GeoFisher]

We need a "wall" of shame.

Guys..........I have NO problem building a webpage to start this "wall of shame".

I will even get a url address............if anyone is interested, please let me know.

Something like MORONBOATERS.COM or MORONFISHERMAN.COM should get the point across.

A picture of the offending boat and boater is all that will be needed.

Later,

Geo

[bob46]

thats how people get shot, I have a small boat and some people have no common sense. I always steer clear of other people fishing.

[Shimano4Life]

WHAT A SHAME!!!!! I just hope your daughter doesn't think that every trip is like that.........

[ryan_ekubass]

wait till some idiiot comes between u and the bank in a rubber zodiac with a 10 hp on plane in a no wake zone doing an s pattern.... that will make u really realllllllly angry..... i know i wanted to hit him with a staysee......

[MSD]

Some people were just born idiots and some turned into one when they got their first boat.