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Last sept on a weekday afternoon I was fishing a local jetty on the outgoing for bones and albies with my youngest son...we both had light spin rods with 10# test and a small lure on the end. My son gets a small blue fish and I hook into a albie...he lands his I lose mine within sight of the rocks. The fish are breaking within 20' of the jetty but are picky. There are a few small blues in the mix. All of a sudden a guy comes running down the rocks in long pants and nasty ol brown street shoes. He holds a large really old POS spinning rod and really old rusty reel that has hardly any line on it and you could see it was really old. He has a sinker and a hook on it. On the hook, he has a HUGE eel, I mean this thing is 24"+ and as thick as your arm. It scared my kid it was so big. It is bending over his rod. He rudely pushes past me and walks right up next to my 8 yo son standing on the last exposed rock on the jetty. Holding the rod/reel UPSIDE down he makes the worst cast I ever saw. The sound was nasty as the line was pulling on the spool since he only had about 40' of heavy mono on there. He casted to the end of the line and began reeling in the eel and sinker like those guys at montauk working pencil poppers. The grinding sound made my sons face cringed as he looked at this guy. I could not help myself from laughing as my 8yo tells this guy, (very polilty) you're holding the rod upside down. I walk up to the fellow and ask him what he hopes to catch with that boa-constrictor at 2:00pm on a sunny day and they he might consider something a little smaller and even ofered him a small hopkins to have. (he needed a lot of help this guy) He looks at me says nothing and makes another cast...this time the top half of his two piece rod goes for swim along with his snake. For a moment I thought I was on one of those gotcha shows. There are ablies and a few bones boiling all around us now and this fellow is scaring the fish by putting a anaconda in the water. My son with a little 7' tsunami rod rifles a small yo-zure jig into the school and hooks another small bluefish. This guy puts his rod back together and makes another heave (still upside down)...this time the line parts at the spool knot and he looses his rig. He walked away and my kid says..."That was a wierd guy dad, I don't think he knows how to fish....LOOK I can see his eel on on the bottom!" I replied...Hey...we have to be nice to that guy...its derby time.
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