I wish people would just realize that the simple act of acknowledging somebody can make all the difference... excluding the castnet situation... If that were me I would have been in a fight! But for instance, yesterday, an older gentleman comes down to the creek and I notice him walking towards me. As he gets closer he asks how the bite is. I tell him what all I've caught and what I'm using. He never actually asked if he could fish along side of me but started to anyways. The difference was he talked to me the whole time. We shared fish stories, funny stories, and all kinds of BS. When we hadn't caught anything for a little while I even suggested he come with me to another hole I figured had some fish. We fished for about 2 hours together and at the end of the day I was glad to have met him. It would have been a completely different story had he not said anything and just started fishing my hole as I'm not very shy about letting someone know they've overstepped their boundaries with me.