This weekend, bright afternoon, main channel in a harbor, I pull into the gas dock, boats passing all around some knuklehead from shore casts all the way across the channel and over my boat with a 1oz kastmaster. I had 2 kids in the boat! I WAS AT THE FRIEKEN GAS DOCK!!!!! WTF! I then free his line and he snags a zodiac as it passes! Idiots are everywhere boat or shore!

a year ago I am soaking bait at the traps. this 40 foot disco boat drops anchor 50 yards in front of me. The guy drops below deck. So I paddle out in my kayak and bang on the side of his boat. " hey wtf are you doing", He pops up with a martini shaker and a bimbo. I explain what the lead will do to his pretty boat and he says" what do you want me to do ? " I tell him FN MOVE ! Where is the logic ?:wall:

I can't believe you actually paddled out there in your kayak to warn him. I would figure you'd just like the lead fly if he didn't hear you swearing at him from shore.

Just remember if they are in a navigable channel and just going from point A to point B through the channel, surfcasters fish at thier own peril including gear. I don't own a boat but have also seen discourteous shore fishermen give crap to boats just making headway through a narrow channel. Courtesy goes both ways, and violence either simulated or real should not even be in a shore fishermans gameplan. I really get pissed when I read about guys saying they will launch a hopkins or some lead at a #^&#^&#^&#^& in a boat, what you are doing is tantamount to intentional assault, just because some fish were scared away. What do you think would happen if you hit the guy or one of his passengers? I find that intentional action even more reprehensible than a googan boater fishing in front of some surfcasters. Yell all you want just don't resort to violence. Sorry for the rant, lack of common sense and basic manners is the norm it seems these days.

Good post.

If I'm shore fishing and a boat pulls up I'll either just leave or let them have at it for a while. They'll eventually move on. The best night I had this year so far featured boats anchored up or drifting just beyond the end of our casts for three hours.

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