So You Get to Your Spot and There's Surfers

[Joe]

Surfers show up and start surfing then give you the big f-u - I've never seen them leave because someone was fishing there first. The little brown signs designate the areas as fishing spots, not surfing spots.

[likwid]

Originally Posted by Joe

Surfers show up and start surfing then give you the big f-u - I've never seen them leave because someone was fishing there first.

Well given the attitude of some of the RI surf fishermen, this doesn't seem very surprising. Birds of a feather I guess.

[Squid kids Dad]

They were there 1st

[Joe]

I think the difference is when there are surfers in a spot first, fishermen typically go someplace else. When people are fishing, the surfers could care less - that's been my experience.

[k-e-v-i-n]

Originally Posted by Joe

Surfers show up and start surfing then give you the big f-u - I've never seen them leave because someone was fishing there first. The little brown signs designate the areas as fishing spots, not surfing spots.

I was just talking about this the other day!! It really pisses me off. I would have the common curtousy if I showed up to a spot and surfers where there ... to MOVE... BUT if Im fishing a spot and THEY show up after me.. I would think they would move... NOT THE CASE... F'ers. no love from them... no love from me... they better be carrying a knife to cut my braid.

You dont OWN THE OCEAN. That is unless your a commmercial Lobsterman. (Ask them Tey will tell you that they own it)



Whoever is on the spot first has the right of way.

The exception to this is if your fishing a navigatable waterway and a vessel. (Canoe, Tugboat with Barge) or anything else needs to pass by.

Its a vastly differnt story if your say SCUBA Diving and are anchored and are flying a code alpha and a divers flag and some idiot desides to do donuts arour your flag or drag lobster pots around in circles until they hit you.

Then I say lay out the Steel Cable on the fishing line and let them snarl up their props in it.

Or with Surfers: If they were there first, then they have priority, If you were fishing firt then they should move on to a differnt spot.

Cast net for Bait?

[Flaptail]

I said it many times in my past career as a writer of piscatorial pursuits that it is the wise surfcaster who befriends the surfers and talk with them regularly. Surfers see fish all the time, espeically on the outer cape where they wait beyond the bar for the wave to form as it goes over it.

What they see that you can't and what they will tell you should incorporate into your midnight hunt.

Show the surfer dudes some love and respect and you will benefit greatly from avoiding casting into the dark into lifeless water.

[RoyL]

If there there first I leave, unless im fishing for bluefish then I make some cast...sortha like West Dennise beach....they are always there.

[jeffsod]

I agree; whoever is there first.

I also think the situation can vary too depending on whether you are talking about a beach break like cape beach or reefs in RI. A beach break is easy for a surfer to move down the beach but unless they have a particular bar that is working. But reef breaks have a defined area that you can expect them to be on during a good swell.