I'm a diver, and still get extremely bothered by some divers. It's just like anything, some divers are intelligent and considerate, others are stupid/rude and don't have a clue.
Nothing worse than being out on the boat, laying down a nice chum slick, start hammering fish, then some idiot decides to dive your slick because he knows there are fish there to look at. I’m sure a lot of the guys who fish the rock piles from Boston to Scituate have had this happen.
This happened to me last year out at the Graves. These divers pulled in a few hundred yards away from us, saw us catching and started heading right for us when they hit the water. I could see them heading right toward the slick, and they were under my boat at one point? I was tapping the bottom of my hull trying to send them a message to leave the area, no such luck. Then low and behold I hooked up with a fish, and then the diver
I ended up having to cut my line because I figured that was the only way the diver could get some slack so he could free himself. Anyway, he comes up and starts yelling at me saying that I almost killed him, unfricken believable. Was working that area for a few hours then I had to pull anchor and leave because all of the commotion spooked the fish.
That diver was lucky, next time Diver and fish will be landed
