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I've been involved in many a violent confrontation from my commercial lobstering days, mostly from when I was younger watching some of the old timmers out of Cohasset go at it. I've seen people throw knifes, bricks, and hammers and have seen a few people have flares shot at them and such. I've heard the stories of a few boats being rammed and the time my grandfather told my dad to get up on the bow of his boat with a baitfork and before he rammed the other boat that was cutting his traps off before his eyes to lunge forward threw the other captain with the baitfork(these people didn't mess around, things are to calm these days:-)
While fishing for pleasure I've come very close to commiting violent acts a few times, but never actualy endaged in a violent act.
Here is an example, and I would have boarded them for sure. I guess this is the hot blooded portuguese in me....
Last year while wireline jigging my friend hooked in a large striper in the 35#+ pound class. While fighting the fish a boat full of googans proceeded to drive their boat across the line while we were trying to land the fish. The line became very tight and we knew they had hooked up on our line. All of a sudden my friends line became very tight and line started peeling off his rod and SNAP, the line broke. I knew the boat full of idiots that had just crossed our line trolling at about 12kts(not kidding) and snapped our line so we drove over to them to get back the jig and wire. We didnt really care about the fish but needed the wire back since we had allready used the spare spool we had brought out. When we get over to their boat guess what I see in one of the guys hands, my friends fish with my jig hanging out of its mouth! I told him we needed back the wire, and jig back and guess what - he told me to F off. When I picked up my gaff and told them I was going to board their boat and beat every single one of them within an inch of there life they had second thoughts and handed over the wire and jig, and fish(which i was going to let them keep). When he went to hand me the fish I took it and toosed it over the side, nobody was keeping that one. In this case if that guy didn't come around I would have boarded his boat, or at least wacked him upside the head with the gaff.
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