Was there ever any respect?

[restornator]

i'll chime in. If you have a problem sharing an area of lake, that means you have somehow convinced yourself that you have temporary ownership until you leave. You think you are entitled to be the only one that gets to fish your honey hole, well because you found it on your $1500 sonar unit mounted in your $30,000 rig. You've spent the time and resources locating it. I'm pretty sure if enough pirate fights broke out on Ky Lake, the government will start regulating who gets to fish when and where. Doesn't that sound fun?

[stripernut1]

i'll chime in. If you have a problem sharing an area of lake, that means you have somehow convinced yourself that you have temporary ownership until you leave. You think you are entitled to be the only one that gets to fish your honey hole, well because you found it on your $1500 sonar unit mounted in your $30,000 rig. You've spent the time and resources locating it. I'm pretty sure if enough pirate fights broke out on Ky Lake, the government will start regulating who gets to fish when and where. Doesn't that sound fun?

the particular situation dictates what is proper ettiquette, it has ZERO to do with a "sense of ownership" or being presumptuous enough to think you have a "right" to that spot. if we are all fishing livebait on downrods over a big school of stripes in the mouth of indian, it is a bit more tolerated for the cluster of boats to be closer than normal as long as everybody dances the dance in time with everyone else. BUT as soon as somebody limits out and fires up the big motor and roars right through the middle of the crowd now everybody is pissed off. do what everybody else is doing and be low key and it works.

now if we are pulling planer boards and my outside board is 150 feet from the boat and your outside board is 150 feet from your boat....well obviously we cant pass close enough to share little debbies and a cup o joe.

if i want to bass fish a particular point and you are there first i DO look at it as you have dibbs on that spot and i will move on to another point (and i will do it without huffing and puffing and mean mugging and throwing a big wake). its called ettiquette. if you want to fish behind me, great, it will all work out, if you waant to try to muscle me out of a spot that i have been at for the last 30 minutes.....well it probably aint gonna work so good, i will share, i will even tell you what they ARENT biting on (i always seem to know what they arent biting on), but i will stay for the next week if i feel like im getting pushed.

most generally if someone acknowledges me i am more than glad to share, i even enjoy a little company from time to time, and talk fishing, i always manage to learn something from somebody on the lake. i thinks what chaps people is when the intruder comes roaring in and IGNORES you like "if i look the other way, i dont see that boat that was already here and that makes it ok for me to fish right in front of them" ....how obnoxious! they could at least say a simple hello, how ya doing? catchin any? dont be a social retard and have some decency.

[inrll]

the particular situation dictates what is proper ettiquette, it has ZERO to do with a "sense of ownership" or being presumptuous enough to think you have a "right" to that spot....

if i want to bass fish a particular point and you are there first i DO look at it as you have dibbs on that spot and i will move on to another point (and i will do it without huffing and puffing and mean mugging and throwing a big wake). its called ettiquette. if you want to fish behind me, great, it will all work out, if you waant to try to muscle me out of a spot that i have been at for the last 30 minutes.....well it probably aint gonna work so good,...

..."if i look the other way, i dont see that boat that was already here and that makes it ok for me to fish right in front of them" ....how obnoxious! they could at least say a simple hello, how ya doing? catchin any? dont be a social retard and have some decency.

Very well said!

[gocards40]

the particular situation dictates what is proper ettiquette, it has ZERO to do with a "sense of ownership" or being presumptuous enough to think you have a "right" to that spot. if we are all fishing livebait on downrods over a big school of stripes in the mouth of indian, it is a bit more tolerated for the cluster of boats to be closer than normal as long as everybody dances the dance in time with everyone else. BUT as soon as somebody limits out and fires up the big motor and roars right through the middle of the crowd now everybody is pissed off. do what everybody else is doing and be low key and it works.

now if we are pulling planer boards and my outside board is 150 feet from the boat and your outside board is 150 feet from your boat....well obviously we cant pass close enough to share little debbies and a cup o joe.

if i want to bass fish a particular point and you are there first i DO look at it as you have dibbs on that spot and i will move on to another point (and i will do it without huffing and puffing and mean mugging and throwing a big wake). its called ettiquette. if you want to fish behind me, great, it will all work out, if you waant to try to muscle me out of a spot that i have been at for the last 30 minutes.....well it probably aint gonna work so good, i will share, i will even tell you what they ARENT biting on (i always seem to know what they arent biting on), but i will stay for the next week if i feel like im getting pushed.

most generally if someone acknowledges me i am more than glad to share, i even enjoy a little company from time to time, and talk fishing, i always manage to learn something from somebody on the lake. i thinks what chaps people is when the intruder comes roaring in and IGNORES you like "if i look the other way, i dont see that boat that was already here and that makes it ok for me to fish right in front of them" ....how obnoxious! they could at least say a simple hello, how ya doing? catchin any? dont be a social retard and have some decency.

Exactly! The part about them ignoring you is the worse part. I used to bank fish Taylorville and have been on a spot catching bluegill and catfish while the tourney guys came in and out for hours. So bad sometimes they would splash me slinging their cranks. I actually tossed a big catfish float to block them all except the only two old men in the same tourney came by and talked to me. I let them fish and they caught there only keeper out of it and we all three laughed about me blocking off the hole all day. So yes if I sit on a spot or honey hole it is mine until i decide share or leave.