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I don't want to say dumb... how about inexperienced... maybe a little clueless.
Early this year (april) on the cape, when the fish are very small and the water is very cold, a guy waded out near me and started tossing a 3oz. ranger, rippin' it across the top. I felt that had about a 0% chance of success.
At favorite boston harbor schoolie spot, I saw a guy casting a tube'n'worm (minus worm) with a 5' tree trunk boat rod with large reel. The casts were going about 2 rod lengths. I thought that was a little strange.
Last September, I was surfcasting for blues at Smith Pt. This guy is walking the beach, tossin' a plug... he's wearing chest waders. The strange thing was, that when the waves came in, he was backing up so as not to get his feet wet. My wife and I are in shorts and t-shirts, soaked up to our chests... I was thinking "what a wuss."
I don't think any of those beat chunkin' with a plug. Now I could go on and on about dumb things I've seen since I started fishing out of the boat, but that's a seperate and well documented subject. Those people I would call dumb.
I guess I can pass on my favorite... a guy in a 50' party boat inside the harbor chasing breaking fish and birds. After the idiot successfully puts the fish down, with none of his 40 clients having caught a fish, he broadcasts over the vhf that there are a bunch of fish in the area as he's leaving. I thought that was a nice touch.
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