Spot Jumpers....Find your own fish!!

[riverrat2]

Yeah, havent had the chum thing happened to me yet. Last weekend I was fishing and I cought a little rat. A boat that was chunking a reasonable distance away saw that I was on and came over. They waited till my next cast and moved there boat close enough to my plug to see exactly what I was throwing. They realized it was a popper and decided to anchor and they all switched to poppers.

[piemma]

S-Journey.
I fish only at night 1) to avoid the *^#& nitwits 2) Bass are nocturnal in their feeding habits and I get more quality fish and 3) my wife could care less what I am doing while she sleeps.
Has worked for me for 36 years of wedded bliss and I don't get anywhere as aggravated as I would in the daytime.

[RIJIMMY]

I'm with you Piemma, in the deep of the night there is not as many idiots, no reduction in family time (they're sleeping), no boats and most of all, thats when the fish are there!
I live for a nightime low, and SW winds.

[S-Journey]

Piemma you sound like a very wise man. Only problem is since I was a kid my father never wanted me to fish at night on a boat and it has kind of stuck with me. We have lost quite a few family members to the sea over the years and he just always wanted me to be safe. Not that I don't fish at night from the boat, but it is not something I regularly do.

This year I will be beating the heat and the tards by fishing at night:-) My son will be much happier as well.

[kevin d]

A few years back my dad and I were on the bay in his boat when the water around us erupted with blues and stripers. Some bone head with a 40 footer almost ran us down and was going so fast he overshot the fish. He turned his boat around and cast his line into the back of my dad's boat. My dad pulled his knife and cut the guys line before he knew what had happened. By the time the other guy tied on a new lure the fish were gone. My dad was pretty pissed but not as pissed as the guy who lost his lure.
Big bay, huge bunch of fish, and this moron screwed it up for both of us by acting like a jack ass.

[Saltheart]

Night time is no haven. This thing that happened Friday night happened about 10: 30 PM

[jugstah]

Unfortunately for most of us, jackbasses come a dime a dozen around these parts. Common sense or courtesy is a virtue of the past.

[blackeye]

Originally posted by piemma
Hi Guys:
haven't been on in awhile. I find this thread interesting in that I never have much trouble with the spotjumpers. Here's the secret. Fish in the middle of the night in the worse weather in the most dangerous spot. You get good quality fish with nobody bothering you.
I crawl around in the wee small hours of the night in the rocks, not on the rocks, in the rocks in Narragansett. If I do run into someone it's a guy who knows how to fish and also hates the nitwits that have started to infiltrate our sacred sport.
It is a shame that this is what it has come to. Narrow River now has more idiots than seaweed. Fished it at 2 AM this morning...gee no one there except for 2 guys I know and they know how to fish it. Saturday night at 10 there was a combination of guys on River Rock "chunking" (great spot to chuck with a 5 knot current on the drop. Couldn't hold bottom with an engine block) and what I call "the jamokes" on the soft side. Coleman lanterns, no waders and drifting eels right into the guys out front. I walked back to the right, waded thru a trench and got fish where no one could see me. Had to unhook in the dark as I didn't want to give away my position. These idiots don't even know there's a bar out there.
This is what it had come to...stelth fishing.

my favorite guy is the one with the little wagon he brings out to the mouth. He tosses a chunk of squid out onto the bar and spikes it, then throws another chunk on a ff rig with a pyramid sinker and drifts it in the channel. That's usually my sign to leave when I see him coming.

Spot jumpers are the reason you'll see me as far out on the bar as I can go

[RIJIMMY]

blackeye, don't forget, those spotjumpers may steal your fish too!

[Moses]

Reminds me of that Sienfeld episode where Elaine's co worker would "materialize" out of nowhere when it was in his best interest.

These guys truly do appear out of nowhere and already have a line wet before you can react. One of the rudest things a fellow fisherperson can do......

[blackeye]

Originally posted by Moses
Reminds me of that Sienfeld episode where Elaine's co worker would "materialize" out of nowhere when it was in his best interest.

These guys truly do appear out of nowhere and already have a line wet before you can react. One of the rudest things a fellow fisherperson can do......

aah, the sidler
so why don't we advocate the fact that bad breath scares off the fish, and that you should always have an economy size box of tic-tacs in your wader pocket at all times.

[piemma]

All good suggestions guys. I think the real answer is to fish the wee small hours during the week. I have been at the river this week between 12:30 AM and 3:30 AM. No one. Nada. Couple of guys on the hard side but no one on the soft.

[jugstah]

Last night while fishing in falmouth, me and my brothers and a friend were slamming fish left and right, mostly sharks and blues and a few shorts though... and twice last night, those wads moved over to our spot and fished off the jetty.

I stood there, said out loud to my brother... "man, we got miles and miles of beach here, and that *#@$wad decides to fish right there next to us, go figure, those kinds are the *&@#$@#$*)&" and within a few minutes, they left...

Sheesh, they are stupid.

[gilligan]

Don't cry out loud
Just keep it inside, learn how to hide your feelings
Fly high and proud
And if you should fall, remember you almost had it all

[BigFish]

Did he mean to spell Gilligan or Googan?

[gilligan]

[BigFish]

[jugstah]

No crying here..

but letting those dimwits know their lack of courtesy blows and knowing they left shortly after my commetnary makes me feel better...

[Blitzseeker]

Reading this thread made me remember a quote which seems quite appropriate here:

"Someone just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder when you write a letter to your girl."

Ernest Hemingway

[Tagger]

I helped a guy once that told me he never caught a keeper ,.Then he brings his knucklehead friend to the spot and he's there all season ,,he sets up a fence of rods ,,so many he can't watch any of them and he's giving me the look when I go down there like its his spot.. I know who he is, he doesn't know me .. needless to say I bashed his head in with a rock one night and cut him up into little pieces with a cordless sawzall..I haven't had a problem with him since .... ssshhhhhhh.....

[justplugit]

Tagster, you should have just cut off all his rods below the ferrules with your sawzall and you wouldn't be on the lamb!