1st guy usually gets priority in my book surf or boat.....but I'll admit to having had "words"
with guy's who stake out a popular location on a busy day and then get irate if you get remotely close ...or worse ...late comers who pull into a location and pull the same stunt.
I've experienced more problems with other boats than with surfcasters and giving a guy his surfcasting space is common sense but I don't think a boat making an occasional pass by your area is out of line (especially if you're drowning a chunk in 20 ft. on the bottom) and if it's spooking all the fish how come we're still catching right behind the boat?
On a humerous note...I was part of the ultimate boat/shore guy confrontation back in my bass tournament days. We were running to the North Hero area of Lake Champlain and had to go through about 1/2 mile of 1 ft. deep sand flats that led to a bridge at the entrance to the Hero section. Now you either had to trim up and dredge bottom through this section or goose it and literally fly at 60 MPH with only a little lower unit and the pad touching the water....being bass tournament guys in mega HP rockets we all chose the goose and go method.
We had been told that you couldn't run the bridge (it was only about a 20 ft. opening) or you'd be DQ'ed so everyone opted for a Nascar style stop and go where you'd hit a deep hole at the bridge..chop the throttle..and pop back on plane in the blink of an eye before the sand grabbed you as you came out. Now unfortunately this little hole at the bridge was also a popular area for the local bait dunkers and the bridge was packed shoulder to shoulder when the flotilla of bass boats coming through at 6:30 AM took them by surprise. We were the 2nd boat through and I've never seen guys reel so fast or curse so much in my life
I think the later boats took a few coffee's and sinkers but casualties were light. PS The drags on a couple of Zebco's and a Long Beach are no match for a Yammie 150 powered Ranger.
