The Good, the Really Bad and venting - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

MartinD18 · 07-10-2005, 08:59 AM

So, yesterday I headed down to a south-facing beach in Falmouth to do some plugging, pre-dawn. Lots of schoolies and a few what looked like bigger fish breaking out a ways. However, they were on small sand eels, no teasers in my bag, no small soft plastics, just some Dannies, pencils, Smack-its...a couple of stupid ones caught but it shoulda been much better. So back I go this morning with the fly rod. Start catching fish right away, mostly small but a couple in the mid-20-inch range. Then I continue walking down the beach to a private beach area, and there on two small jetties are four guys and a woman set up with a bunch of rods, fishing bait. I watch them catch a bass that couldn't have been more than 20 inches...into the bucket it goes. Then another. Now I'm getting pi***d. Call the EPO number that's programmed into my cell phone, which they see me doing...no effect. Get the recorded message, leave my number and continue past them. They glare. I decide to keep my mouth shut as 4 to 1 odds may be good in Vegas. but they suck on the beach. Continue on, trying to not let it ruin my morning, release a few more fish, then head back. Now the wind has come up and the slob's trash (DD crap - is this the worst trash around these days? - potato chip bags, empty cups) is blowing down the beach. Now, the jetties they're standing on BOTH have signs that say No Tresspassing, but my guess is that they can't read English, or maybe can't read at all. So I get to the first jetty and pulled up on the (private) beach is a beautiful little skiff, obviously the pride and joy of the person who lives in the house up above....and the FREAKIN slobs are using the stern mahogany, varnished seat to lay out and cut their stinkin squid!!!! I stop, glare at them, they glare back, the odds haven't improved so I keep walking. #(^*&@#&*(#&!!!!!!!!! This is not a new or unique story, we all know that. But we wonder why we sometimes have a bad image with the non-fishing public.
No call back yet from the EPOs either.
Well, thanks for listening.

BrianS · 07-10-2005, 09:02 AM

I think I might of called the normal police at that point.

Trespassing and destruction of private property?

beachwalker · 07-10-2005, 09:15 AM

unf***in believable

some people really deserve to be shot....

Clammer · 07-10-2005, 09:37 AM

are you surprized ???????//////////// I,d confront them // I don,t give a @#$%^ / & when they know they are wrong /they don,t have any balls anyway

splshnplug · 07-10-2005, 09:39 AM

i've found out first hand if you call the state police, they will act faster . they will hold them untill the authorities arrive.

Nebe · 07-10-2005, 10:15 AM

Thats horrible. Those are the actions that get places shut down. Who knows who owns that skiff, but imagine of they were on the town council. Soon you would see no-parking signs go up and you will be forced to fish elsewhere because of the actions of a few bad folks. F-ers

Raven · 07-10-2005, 10:15 AM

how far away was their vehicle from where they were fishing?.....was what i was wondering... then with their license plate written down it will be easier to identify(spot) the POACHERS and VANDALS easier the next time for authorities and /or yourself, or anyone on the board.
Then if you had that info you could've writen a short note to the property owner
and lettem know you were there trying to protect his pride and joy property and perhaps earned permanent permission to fish those two jetties.
Also i would have taken their picture. BUT thats just me.... the property owner might have wished to press charges for the vandalism but with no info provided he might think your the person who was cutting squid on his boat....seeing you walk down that beach months later..or some other person....who wouldnt do such a thing.

Mike P · 07-10-2005, 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Raven

how far away was their vehicle from where they were fishing?.....was what i was wondering... then with their license plate written down it will be easier to identify(spot) the POACHERS and VANDALS easier the next time .

I would have been wondering that too, but for a different reason.

By that time, I probably wouldn't have even left the valve stems in an envelope under their wiper blade