Boaters - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

Flaptail · 08-05-2009, 12:42 PM

Vic, with my wrist rocket I like 3/8's hex nuts (they can be standard non-galvinized) or 1/4 oz. Egg sinkers. The cool thing is on a warning shot they whistle as they go by, sort of an audible warning.

likwid · 08-05-2009, 03:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Flaptail

Vic, with my wrist rocket I like 3/8's hex nuts (they can be standard non-galvinized) or 1/4 oz. Egg sinkers. The cool thing is on a warning shot they whistle as they go by, sort of an audible warning.

Hooray A&B!

FishermanTim · 08-05-2009, 03:27 PM

I also got spooled by the harbormaster off the Powderpoint Bridge in Duxbury. Fortunately, he heard me and was kind enough to stop long enough to cut the line from his prop. I only lost the tackle, so it wasn't too bad overall.
In his defense, he was reponding to a call, so I knew it wasn't done on purpose.

nightfighter · 08-05-2009, 03:28 PM

I am a boater, but have seen my share of horror stories with fishermen, be it gunning up to a school of bait or a blitz I was on, only to have their stupid high speed approach put them down....Weekends are the worst. I am usually off the water by 10AM on weekends.
Fly guys in boats are the biggest PIA to me. Sunday I was anchored, set in tight to the rocks with boulders either side of me about 4-5 feet below the surface... and this longwand a-hole in his Regulator asks me if I would mind moving so he can get a few casts in tight....
Last year I had a couple on from the mid west, who wanted to troll wire, as he had read up on different saltwater techniques. So I brought a wire set up out of mothballs and we were doing OK, with a handful of decent bass. A boat also trolling the area, but not catching kept cutting across behind us close. I called out on the radio to him asking for a little room, and his retort was that he didn't know I owned the Atlantic. Half hour later it happened.... his prop caught the wire. I remembered what Capesams told me he had done in this case, I put the reel in freespool and let him have it. The jerk took all 150 yards and wrapped it around his prop. Stopped him dead in the water. Whatever it will cost me to refill the reel someday will be worth it. I heard him call SeaTow, and later found out it cost him $650.00

2na · 08-05-2009, 06:21 PM

Hard not to weigh in on this one. I am subject to boats coming too close almost every morning once an hour after 1st light. The regulars who pull wire across the Race know where the wall is and where the shore guys can throw to, but the offenders are almost always day trippers and charter captain running across the bay. As sound travels very well across water, I let them know that they are too close, and if they ignore me I shout out to keep an eye on my (tin or popper), then I launch it over them. They tend to listen very well after that and stay off the beach, but it gets tiresome doing it week after week. I just don't get the boat mentality that they have to crowd the beach, and they expect the beach guys to wait for them to pass. Ignorance/stupidity or selfishness - who knows? But it happens far too often.

As TT says, we oftentimes have made a lot of effort to get to our spot, and we don't have the mobility to quickly move a mile or two. On the other hand, you are in a boat and have vast expanses of water to comb - go somewhere else.

ThrowingTimber · 08-05-2009, 06:31 PM

approx. 200 square miles of bay and this j.o parks in front of me.

freebie · 08-05-2009, 07:44 PM

Hull gut can be a killer everyone buzzes close to the shore there, never been spooled but have seen others

TheSpecialist · 08-05-2009, 08:41 PM

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Originally Posted by ThrowingTimber

approx. 200 square miles of bay and this j.o parks in front of me.

Vic I understand what your saying, but to play devils advocate If it was at night maybe he did'nt see you, and he may have left the dock with every intention of fishing that honey hole cause he knows it from fishing it on the boat all the time. Does'nt make it right, just sayin.

fishaholic18 · 08-06-2009, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by ThrowingTimber

approx. 200 square miles of bay and this j.o parks in front of me.

It was probably Clammer....he can't see sh!t...and he luvs u TT....

piemma · 08-07-2009, 02:50 AM

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It was probably Clammer....he can't see sh!t...and he luvs u TT....

Hey, Dave's back!!

Come hoooooome. Come Hoooooome.
We missssssss you.

beamie · 08-05-2009, 06:46 PM

TT,
I know what your talking about but some food for thought........this coutesy has to go both ways. i.e. if there was a boater all alone drifting or wire lining a rip that is in throwing distance from shore hooking up pass after pass what do you do when your the second one there? How many surfcasters would keep walking? Or would they try to get a few casts in, in between passes? Hard call isn't it. That boater may have a bigger wrist rocket and bigger nuts!!!

One of my local spots along a breakwater I have been unintentionally guilty of this as a boater. Even in the daylite it was so hard to see a guy in the rocks till after your by him. He was bait fishing and not plugging but on my next pass I stayed a bit more outside.

ThrowingTimber · 08-05-2009, 07:04 PM

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Originally Posted by beamie

TT,
I know what your talking about but some food for thought........this coutesy has to go both ways. i.e. if there was a boater all alone drifting or wire lining a rip that is in throwing distance from shore hooking up pass after pass what do you do when your the second one there? How many surfcasters would keep walking? Or would they try to get a few casts in, in between passes? Hard call isn't it. That boater may have a bigger wrist rocket and bigger nuts!!!

1. I was there first I glassed the area before I started my bowling ball walk. Had there been anyone there boater, surfcaster etc. I would have moved on.

2. He flew over once he saw a fish being landed. And was so close I could see his electronics, turned their(2 of them) backs to shore and basically cut me off from the hole I was fishing. I called them d.bags and assorted other stuff before I threw rocks around them, and not at them. Mind you they were only about 20yds from the tips of my boots.

Threw so many damn rocks my shoulder is sore

He finally realized he wasnt going to catch anything with my rock throwing

, and I realized I wasnt going to catch anything with him power drifting through the hole.

The intent here was'nt to start a pissing contest and I doubt this d.bag is a member here I just needed to get it off my chest. paddling out to his mooring field with a sawzall crossed my mind but that just aint right.. I dont want to get sent back to anger management class

BigFish · 08-05-2009, 07:11 PM

Vic I can see you swimming out to his mooring with a cordless Sawzall clinched in your teeth!!!

beamie · 08-05-2009, 10:00 PM

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Originally Posted by ThrowingTimber

The intent here was'nt to start a pissing contest and I doubt this d.bag is a member here I just needed to get it off my chest.

Nor my intent either. In your case you have every right to be pissed.....

SAUERKRAUT · 08-11-2009, 07:25 AM

[QUOTE=2na;704095]Hard not to weigh in on this one. I am subject to boats coming too close almost every morning once an hour after 1st light. The regulars who pull wire across the Race know where the wall is and where the shore guys can...

2na and Flap: Yet another reason a couldn't bring myself to buy a P'town sticker this year. I can fish anywhere from 20-40 round trip miles closer along the sandbar beaches that keep the motors and the boaters away from my shallow inshore terrirory.

Now, if I could only figure out how to get around the mung problem and the seal problem...

TheSpecialist · 08-05-2009, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by nightfighter

I am a boater, but have seen my share of horror stories with fishermen, be it gunning up to a school of bait or a blitz I was on, only to have their stupid high speed approach put them down....Weekends are the worst. I am usually off the water by 10AM on weekends.
Fly guys in boats are the biggest PIA to me. Sunday I was anchored, set in tight to the rocks with boulders either side of me about 4-5 feet below the surface... and this longwand a-hole in his Regulator asks me if I would mind moving so he can get a few casts in tight....
Last year I had a couple on from the mid west, who wanted to troll wire, as he had read up on different saltwater techniques. So I brought a wire set up out of mothballs and we were doing OK, with a handful of decent bass. A boat also trolling the area, but not catching kept cutting across behind us close. I called out on the radio to him asking for a little room, and his retort was that he didn't know I owned the Atlantic. Half hour later it happened.... his prop caught the wire. I remembered what Capesams told me he had done in this case, I put the reel in freespool and let him have it. The jerk took all 150 yards and wrapped it around his prop. Stopped him dead in the water. Whatever it will cost me to refill the reel someday will be worth it. I heard him call SeaTow, and later found out it cost him $650.00

Thats Awsome..

Roger · 08-05-2009, 08:39 PM

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Originally Posted by nightfighter

Fly guys in boats are the biggest PIA to me. Sunday I was anchored, set in tight to the rocks with boulders either side of me about 4-5 feet below the surface... and this longwand a-hole in his Regulator asks me if I would mind moving so he can get a few casts in tight....

I don't know - most fly guys I know wouldn't do that, including me. Maybe it was because he's a Regulator owner - you know how they can be.