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My best interaction with a boater was earlier this year. I was on a sandbar in the early AM. I was getting fish here and there, not steady but still a good bite. I see this 18 ft P.O.S. boat idling towards me in the channel but only about 50 ft away. He cut me off from where the fish were staged so I was a bit peeved. I held my rod and just watched what he was doing so this idiot didn't drift into me. I let him know, without yelling because he was in speaking range, that he was going to run aground. Now within fifteen feet of where I was standing he said back "I know what I am doing, I have been fishing here for twenty years. " As soon as he said "years" the four guys in his boat all jerked eastward in unison.
Now I could have walked over to help push him off but it was so worth seeing him and his buddy in the water up to their waists in early April. THey headed in the direction of the ramp shortly after.
What I am getting at is that it always is those who know nothing about boating or fishing or those who think they know everything and the entire water is theirs because they are the "pros". Real fisherman seem to know what the deal is on shore or from the water.
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