Let's hear it - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

Slipknot · 03-12-2003, 11:20 AM

How do you keep others from crowding you after you are into fish? Wherever you fish, what are the things you do to keep others from seeing that you caught fish? Don't use a light is obviously one way, I recently bought one of those C-lite red lights to keep from using a flashlight. It's hard sometimes when you have an area all to yourself and you are catching but then some people always come along and see you catching and there goes the neighborhood.

What are some of your tricks?

fishweewee · 03-12-2003, 11:30 AM

Wendy's chili.

fishsmith · 03-12-2003, 11:41 AM

When you're casting, let out about 10 - 20ft of line and let your plug or eel orbit around you about a 1/2 dozen times, and keep screaming whoa whoa whoa as it circles you.

JPowers · 03-12-2003, 11:54 AM

If someone invades my spot, I usually tell them there's a guy a little farther down the rocks doin' a lot better than I am.

His name's Bruce !

JPowers · 03-12-2003, 12:04 PM

Or,

Get on your cell phone and speak LOUDLY with your doctor rearding your positive meningitis tests.

Jenn · 03-12-2003, 12:24 PM

act all excited and loud....oh wait...thats no act...

I usually keep fishing and if its too bad.......then they can have it! with so many people there...I figure its time for a new spot anyway.....

FishermanTim · 03-12-2003, 12:26 PM

Yeah, you gotta love those "communicable" diseases.
The only problem would be if someone came along and says
"You think that's bad, wait to you here what I got!"

Goose · 03-12-2003, 12:45 PM

Act like a wicked rookie, say poop like.......I still can't beleive there fish swimmin here. Break out a rabbits foot and hoarseshoe

......I like to remind them of all the risks you take!

jettyjockey18 · 03-12-2003, 12:59 PM

jp...how bout when the googan shows up about 50 feet down current from ya and when he does the upside-down-spinning-reel-with-leg-in-the-air cast just far enough to screw up your drift...then what do you do...

JPowers · 03-12-2003, 01:10 PM

I usually yell down : Hey, Todd can ya give me a little room here.

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Had to do it buddy. It was too easy.

JohnR · 03-12-2003, 01:52 PM

Ahh Backwinders....

I try to make a bit of a nuisance, if the person is really in the way I'll ask for them to move down as my drifts / casts WILL catch their line. And then I time a couple snags for emphasis...

Mike P · 03-12-2003, 02:08 PM

Take the clicker thingy out of your drag.

Hold the rod low and to the side, to keep it from being seen and to try and keep the fish from rolling.

Use jigs so you can unhook them still in the water and not show a light.

If someone sees you unhooking a fish, say "Effin' dogfish!!!!" as loud as you can

chris L · 03-12-2003, 02:13 PM

I just poop where I am standing .
I will not use a light or a c-lite or hide when ever someone comes along .

bloocrab · 03-12-2003, 02:16 PM

..Intentionally tangle up with them...

...again and again and again. Make sure your the one in control, ask them to give slack and reel their offering in. Then toss it in close along the rocks....near you.

..and yell back....ALL SET!!

...works best at high tide...

2 hours later, your putting their lure in your bag as a fee for aggravating you

Fishpart · 03-12-2003, 02:20 PM

I'm with bloo.

I use Spectron, if I could cast wire rope I'b bring a rig with that on it for when visitors arrive.

Tagger · 03-12-2003, 02:58 PM

i fish with three blackbelts,,i keep fishing let them handle it...

macojoe · 03-12-2003, 03:08 PM

Thats easy I havent caught a fish off the beach in years. Then again I haven't been to the beach since I bought a boat.(12 years now) I bought a surf rod and reel 3 years ago thinking I was going to but have never used it. I would like to get a sticker and try some this year. But havent desided were to go yet.
Macojoe

STEVE IN MASS · 03-12-2003, 03:33 PM

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Originally posted by Tagger
i fish with three blackbelts,,i keep fishing let them handle it...

That would be just one person, right....Nota....um, never mind better not go there.......

Saltheart · 03-12-2003, 03:36 PM

I simply let them know they are too close. if the friendly jesture doesn't work , I just keep fishing. People been crowding mefor years. I jst keep fishing.

One time , two gys set up right down current from me. they toss out bait when I've been jigging there for hours. I tell them they are too close and that i will be tangling their lines. they ignore me but one guy says to the other "if he tangles me he'll lose his jig , I got 30 LB mono on my reel"! I just kept fishing....I was using 50 LB Cortland SPectron!

After a couple of tug of wars....they left!

Joe · 03-12-2003, 04:39 PM

Fish Block Island on weeknights.

STEVE IN MASS · 03-12-2003, 04:41 PM

Too close?....let's see.....it was a number of years back. I was down in Seaside Park NJ.....a few hundred yards into Island Beach State Park. I went out at like 3 AM on a November morning. Being mostly a chunk guy, I set up on the beach and had one rod out with a chunk, the other plugging rod in a spike for when I decided I wanted to do that. All is well...caught a few small ones, etc. My stuff is up a bit on the beach, as the tide was coming in, but not that far up.

Come about dawn, these three guys in their early 20's come down. The were obviously still pretty well "lit" from the night before. So, they get there stuff together, walk RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME, and start casting plugs. The one guy, on his first cast missed my chunking line by about a 1/2". The other two are fumbling and tumbling around.

I tell the one guy "What are you doing? Can't you see I'm set up here? You missed my line on your cast by a 1/2", and if you hook up, you are definately gonna tangle with me" I get a dirty look.

Of course, his first cast he hooks up with a fish about 18". And of course crosses me and gets in a tangle....and then gets pissed at me!

We both reel in, fish flopping on the beach, our lines a mess, and he tells me to cut my line! I go down and unhook this poor fish, and send it on it's way. We are still tangled, and he's still asking me to cut my line. I told him "yeah, right", proceeded to untangle the mess. Meanwhile, his rod and reel are buried in the sand, he's sitting on the beach trying to untangle his backlash or whatever.

At that point, steam coming from my ears, I took my knife and cut off his rig, and left it in the wash. He gets PO'd "You cut my line!". I told him that he was lucky I wasn't a local, or his rod would have been broken in half over my knee, and tossed in the surf.

Aggrevated, I packed up my gear to head elsewhere up the beach. While doing that, I was watching him and his buddies, and as luck would have it, two of them get knoocked over by a wave, falling down drunk, and are soaked to the skin.

I walked away snickering.

Time wounds all heals........

jettyjockey18 · 03-12-2003, 04:53 PM

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Originally posted by JPowers
I usually yell down : Hey, Todd can ya give me a little room here.
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Had to do it buddy. It was too easy.

i think that ones being submitted for best reply of the year honors...

this coming from a guy who doesn't end his drift until he can see backing on his reel...

Slipknot · 03-12-2003, 05:02 PM

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Originally posted by Joe
Fish Block Island on weeknights.

best answer yet, Thanks Joe

Mr. Sandman · 03-12-2003, 05:57 PM

I am with Joe on this one. First I try not to surf fish on weekends. I do go from time to time but generally I skip it or I pick a late tide in an off spot. I rarely go to places like the breachways that focus fishermen in a small area...there is always someone down there it seems. Too easy to get to.

I generally fish more remote beaches and I make a real effort to avoid others. I have pulled in to places and if I see another vehicle, I leave and go to another. I *never* walk up next to another fisherman and start fishing. (do unto others....would you want someone camping out next to you?)

If I am fishing and I am into fish and someone is approaching...I make it appear like there is nothing happening, slow movements no rod action. Most of the time they keep on tr#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&. I rarely turn on my light. and if I have to i use a small pen light. I have a more powerful flashling in my surf bag for fiding the path away from the water. Never run...a running fisherman is like a herring flopping on the surface in october...your alerting the world you found fish.

I will tell others that I caught fish the next day ...but never what rock I am fishing on.

I really like to discover my own little hotspots..places that might hold fish under certain condtions. I spend a lot of time *during the day* at low tide and then again at high tide studying the break at these places. It may only be one little pocket. Success at a place like that is everthing for me.

I would rather fish alone and have one hit then fish a hotspot with 20 guys in a blitz. For me solitude is one of the best parts of surf fishing. You would be surpised how well you do and how much more fun it is then untangling lines and waiting in a line up to cast....I hate that more then anything..

Yes I have gone with other guys from time to time and we generally stick together (within a mile or so along the beach) but 90% of the time I surf fish....its alone.

Its possible to have big name hotspot in peak the season all to yourself but you have to fish off peak but its far sweeter to find your own nook to pull one from the suds. Forgetabout fridaynights...spend them with the wife at a resturant, this way she will not mind when you leave the house at midnight to fish the back side of the night....4 nights in a row.

Got Stripers · 03-12-2003, 06:02 PM

I usually throw people that crowd me out of the F'ing boat, especially if they start costing me fish

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Canalman · 03-12-2003, 06:21 PM

I just act like as much of an @$$ as they are. If they walk down 20 feet I walk right up next to them. Cast out cross their line etc. If they ask why I'm crowding them I reply, "hey I was just gonna ask you that!" They usually get discouraged and move on, you gotta be territorial. Dirty looks don't hurt either.

Here in westport, we have this guy who guides, (not mentioning names in case he belongs to this site

) But if you are into fish he will buzz right up in his boat and practically tie off to your leg. If you complain he says "hey, I got a charter here"
"Hey if you call yourself a GUIDE you should have no trouble finding your own fish, especially in a boat! Most of us have thrown rocks at him at least once. Sometimes I'll empty a bag of chips into the water and reel a popper under the surface, when nothings doing. Rod doubled birds everywhere, here he comes!!! Tip the cap and smile... off he goes

-DAve

RickBomba · 03-12-2003, 06:59 PM

I usually bring Rappin' Mike with me. He can clear a romm (or beach for that matter) in a second. He's wicked fun when he's drunk and mad.
If that doesn't work he'll walk up and claim all of the perpetrator's raffle prizes.

Sometimes he even gets mad at me for stealing his spot in my boat, which I've been fishing from all day.
Oh wait till you guys see the madman in action. He's got a lot of new lures and stuff to try out, so beware.

Love,
Rick

"uffah!!" · 03-12-2003, 07:52 PM

Try all means possible. If they don't work, and all else fails, then
you have no other choise but to Put a Grenade in their Shorts!!!

Canalratt1 · 03-12-2003, 07:53 PM

Easy one start casting sideways and tell them "sorry" I'm not good at this you never know where my casts land!

OldJohn · 03-12-2003, 08:56 PM

Mr. Sandman, that was an excellent and eloquent post. It pretty much describes how I fish. I also have the luxury of being able to travel/fish mid-week. Too bad we'll never run into one another on a beach somewhere.....

--OJ