The Anatomy of a Mugging.

[timmah]

This was last night and mind you, I am a very laid back guy. But i just couldn't walk away and move, though they expected me to.

1. Arrive at 400-600 foot bridge at 11pm with 5 to 6 fish-able spans. Put lure on and start fishing shadow lines, while fishing partners start drifting eels.

2. Four guys walk up bridge by you and all around you with 3 rods each and start setting up 4 feet away.

3. Get agitated because the 30 foot flip you can do with your lure into the shadow line is now lost. Pleasantly convey this fact to 4 said muggers with 3 rods each setting up with bait all around you.

4. Muggers say, "What this, YOUR bridge" and convene speaking foreign language to you and each other in a LOUD manner. You say, "No it's not my bridge, but there is normal common courtesy when fishing." They now don't understand English all the sudden and continue to set up right on top of you. With 3 Rods each. You say, "OK. that's fine, I'll just run the shadow line under your rigs. They drop their rigs strait down. Mind you, this is a 500 foot bridge with 5-6 spans. So you say again,"you guys are being really rude and continue to attempt to communicate the rudeness." Now they start to mock you in a language you don't understand. And you KNOW they are mocking you.

5. Let them get all set up and keep casting to shadow lines, switch lures, and consult Fid on which language they are speaking. You decide it's Cantonese. So you ask Fid to translate on his phone, (cuz Fid can do just about anything on his phone) "You are being very rude" Fid finds the translator pretty quickly between casts and actually has a digital voice pronunciation and written text of the translation on the phone, all the while the Muggers are exceptionally loud and boisterous. You decide the pronunciation could be mis-interpreted if you attempt to speak it, so you actually SHOW the phone with the writing (characters) on the screen to each mugger. "You are being very rude" They Laugh at YOU.

6. You cast, pissed offedly at the nice shadow lines in between the docks a little too far and get hooked up on a dock. You hear the muggers laughing at you. You gently twitch the rod and get the plug unhooked from the dock and during the retrieve you see the HEAD MUGGER LOUDMOUTH toss all his plastic bait and grocery bags into the water. 4 Bags. You say loudly, "What the F***." They raise their hands in dissolution.

7. You retrieve your plug (sinking old school rebel) and walk over in-between all four muggers and cast directly at the trash (BAG) floating away in the current. Your first cast is off the mark a little and you get a tangle with said muggers, you yet manage to quickly flip swing over the lines. You cast again at bag (trash) floating away further with mugggers "trying to figure you what the hell you are doing". Second cast is right on the mark about 30 - 40 yards out and you hook the bag and bring it in with reckless abandon. You take bag off hook and throw it down in front of HEAD mugger. He yells at you in Cantonese. You do not understand anything but "this a**h(((le could be from anywhere. He's just a plain A((hole."

8. You decide it's all over now, They are yelling at you and you can't take it and are gonna call the cops. You pretend to play with the phone, then start saying, "there is a bunch of Poachers on ******* bridge, they keep taking short fish and harassing us". As soon as you start talking, HEAD mugger starts packing up and off they go. TJ says, "you called the cops" You say, "No, Saturday night live skit, pretended to call the cops." They Left.

9. Three of the guys were OK and would have moved when asked nicely. ONE was an A hole. There are aholes everywhere these ones just happend to speak Cantonese.

10. If they spoke English, there would have been fishticuffs.

11. Can you tell I'm PISSED?