Was there ever any respect?

[stratos19]

I don't mind sharing the house when an unannouced guest shows up. I just don't respect their need to get in the same bed the wife and I are sharing.

I don't think he wanted to share the bed with your wife AND you lol..

[stripernut1]

I don't think he wanted to share the bed with your wife AND you lol..

Hahahahahahaha!!!! I was thunking it, you said it !!

[stripernut1]

I have witnessed this more times than I care to mention.....too funny Jeff. I was on a little school last Fall that would come up, I would catch a couple and they would go down. Wait a bit and they would do it again a bit later as I was being very quiet. Well two guys finally saw me and they had been pulling bait down this bank all morning near Rowena and not doing worth a darn. Yep they started shadowing me and all I was doing was catching brown bass and playing with a school that might have had 15 to 25 fish in it tops. Here they come..Hey what are you catching those fish on, what size are they, how many have you caught, man it looks like you are tearing them up..................Uuuhhhh well I was, lol....

them: "looks like you are tearing them up"
you: "yup....and i didnt even know carp would hit topwater"! hey, wait , where y'all going?

mark all i know is its a good thing walleye dont school in the jumps. there would be bodies floating all over the place.

[HURRICANEBOB]

I don't think he wanted to share the bed with your wife AND you lol..

Who said the guest was a "He" ?

But to be sure, I'll play the video tape back and let ya know. I was pretty sauced that night.

[HURRICANEBOB]

I don't think he wanted to share the bed with your wife AND you lol..

I just didn't feel right making the wife sleep on the sofa....ya know?

[know1]

Took my boat out in the summer time for the first time in 2 years this weekend at Cedar Creek.

I was just goofing off fishing with bobbers and worms for bluegill while my wife was sun bathing.

2 guys in a john boat came idling by right were my bobbers were. They drove between me and the bank and within 5 feet of where I was casting to. There was NO reason they couldn't have gone by on the lake side of me rather than the shore side. In fact, they were getting all kind of weeds on their prop as they were going by in about 3 feet of water with thick weeds. The guy running the boat was on a cell phone so maybe he just wasn't paying any attention.

I wasn't being serious, so I wasn't too overly mad, but I couldn't imagine what would possess someone to literally almost run over a persons bobbers.

Now I remember why I only get on the lakes in the winter.

[Duayne]

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2 guys in a john boat came idling by right were my bobbers were. They drove between me and the bank and within 5 feet of where I was casting to.

HAD to be tournament fishermen!! I'm Kidding!! LOL I really do hate when people do that. You can be fishing a point 50 yards off the bank on Cumberland and still be fishing the point. People cut through all the time.. This isn't always fishermen (maybe 50-50) I've had a few planer boards get hit and the line stripped from a reel. You yell and scream for a couple of minutes then you get this little smile knowing what's around their prop... 8)

[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.

[Mean Morone]

I'll jump in! I'll give you a few of instances that have happened to me and my buddy while fishing. Now there are jerks out there that aren't species specific. I wont mention whether or not these are tourney fisherman because I dont want to upset anyone. We were fishing for stripers and hybrids on Cherokee Lake in the middle of the night and going down the bank very slowly. There was a boat two or three hundred yards on down the bank in front of us. All of a sudden that boat pulls out and gets up on plain and runs within 50 yards of us. He runs down the lake, turns around and comes back wide open, again only about 50 yards from us. He did this 4 times before not coming back. I guess we deserved that. Another time my buddy was heading toward a bank on a night where there were additional boats on the lake. He was coasting in toward the bank when he sees a boat come around a point and start down the bank he is on. My buddy starts casting the bank as this boat keeps coming. Soon the guy is casting and purposely crossing my buddy's line. After getting tangled a couple of times my buddy asks this guy what his problem is. The guy has attitude and says my buddy had to see him coming. This guy was around a point a couple hundred yards away. My buddy never saw him until the guy rounded the point and came down the straight bank. Well by now this guy is cutting right in front of my buddy's boat and is so close that my buddy has to push his boat away with his foot. This really fired up my buddy and came THAT CLOSE to stepping on the guys boat to see if he could swim(yep, my buddy is 6'3 250). Another time we were fishing a school of hybrids that were busting on the surface. It just so happened that many boats on the lake were racing for the boat ramp(I still haven't said it) at a certain time. We were within casting range of the bank and we thought this boat would go around us because the boat ramp was only a hundred yards away. Nope, they came right over the busting fish and put them down. We yelled at them to go around, but they wouldn't even look at us. I sure hope they did well when they got to the boat ramp to justify ruining our fishing. We don't fish that particular lake on Tuesday nights anymore. Again, I agree that jerks are jerks. It doesn't matter if they are bluegill fishing or striper fishing, it's all about fun isn't it? Let's respect each other and have fun.

[SLP]

If they cut in front of me (the direction I am going) close enough to where I would end up having to choose between either being on top of them or pull up my trolling motor then I do get annoyed. The funny thing is if that if you do keep fishing as you were and end up on top of each other they will usually look at you like you are the one doing something wrong. LOL, go figure.


I just in general lack of common curtsey and basic manners is sorely lacking everywhere, and what we see on the lack is just a representation of that. Parents just don't seem to teach their children these things as much as people did in the past.