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I am a boater, but have seen my share of horror stories with fishermen, be it gunning up to a school of bait or a blitz I was on, only to have their stupid high speed approach put them down....Weekends are the worst. I am usually off the water by 10AM on weekends.
Fly guys in boats are the biggest PIA to me. Sunday I was anchored, set in tight to the rocks with boulders either side of me about 4-5 feet below the surface... and this longwand a-hole in his Regulator asks me if I would mind moving so he can get a few casts in tight....
Last year I had a couple on from the mid west, who wanted to troll wire, as he had read up on different saltwater techniques. So I brought a wire set up out of mothballs and we were doing OK, with a handful of decent bass. A boat also trolling the area, but not catching kept cutting across behind us close. I called out on the radio to him asking for a little room, and his retort was that he didn't know I owned the Atlantic. Half hour later it happened.... his prop caught the wire. I remembered what Capesams told me he had done in this case, I put the reel in freespool and let him have it. The jerk took all 150 yards and wrapped it around his prop. Stopped him dead in the water. Whatever it will cost me to refill the reel someday will be worth it. I heard him call SeaTow, and later found out it cost him $650.00
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