how many of you have seen this on the banks of utah lake?

[Travis23]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-ca0Oq3I...ata_player
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[Travis23]

Or provo river.....
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[hookngrinin]

Crazy. I like how the guy in the background just keeps on fishing.
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[flygoddess]

Wasn't this posted on the fly fishing?[crazy]
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[Travis23]

[quote flygoddess]Wasn't this posted on the fly fishing?[crazy][/quote]

Now this is very possible, but didn't you want to see the guys hat float away again?[pirate]
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[wagdog]

Yeah...in fact you posted a pic of the opening day at Henry's showing those dudes shoulder-to-shoulder in response to my question as to why folks were fishing soooooooooooooooo close together.
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[Travis23]

[quote wagdog]Yeah...in fact you posted a pic of the opening day at Henry's showing those dudes shoulder-to-shoulder in response to my question as to why folks were fishing soooooooooooooooo close together.[/quote]

I posted what?
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[wagdog]

Sorry. That reply was for fly goddess. When this video was posted on the fly fishing forum, I had said something about how close all those dudes were to each other while fishing. She then posted a pic of opening day at Henry's which showed a big group of fisherman ready to fling flies side by side.
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[Travis23]

Oh got ya! I was like I did what? My bad.
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[Fin-S-Fish]

A=[] At some places there is no choice, because there is only fishing opportunity in a small area. The world would be a much better place if people didn't get so territorial. Sure, I'd rather people not find out about "my" spot, but when they do I don't tell them I have a 500ft restraining order to stay away from me. I've had people get hostile even just innocently walking past them while they are fishing when I wasn't even fishing. They would loudly and angrily proclaim a whole area is "theirs." I vow never to become a prick like that. I will let everyone stand right next to me as long as they don't tangle my line. I fish an area of Utah Lake with a bunch of country locals who go there every year. We stand shoulder to shoulder and sometimes take turns casting into the exact same area. After several years, I know most of them by first name. We always see each other again in March. When I hook a fish, nothing needs to be said, the person next to me will always have net ready to assist. I do the same for everyone else I'm next to. Now that's what I would wish for everywhere in a Utopian fishing world. It's fun to stand shoulder to shoulder, bs some, to kill the boredom while waiting hours for that one single bite. If I had to sit out there by myself, I probably wouldn't stay out there in the dark for that long from boredom alone. My main net man out there a fella named Mike, I owe big time. He's helped me land countless eyes out there. Sure, I'm pro enough to land eyes with no net, but hey I greatly appreciate when people are nice enough to offer assistance even without request. I admit fishing makes me more cynical as the years go by. There are some nice people left in the world, but not many. The discourse of fishing is as hegemonic, oppressive, and unegalitarian as any other societal context. The dominant fishing groups all have strong, sometimes problematic ideologies and then express contempt and hate towards others with alternate world views. To me it seems as that this ill feeling is as heated as the conflicts between people one often hears about on a world wide level. Sad.
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[Travis23]

Hey, it wouldn't be the same without guys like Willie out there to make you laugh! If you fish the area you'll know who I'm talking about.
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[CROSSINEYES]

back in the 20 plus yrs ago. we had worse at the buble up. gun fire. [shocked]
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[GEEZER]

My youngest brother was confined to a wheelchair so wasn't all that mobile. One time on the Provo river close to U.L. we were clobbering white bass and this Asian fellow walked up right next to my brother, not three feet away, and started casting right into the spot where my brother had been casting. I politely asked the dude if he could swim. Getting no response, I told him that if he didn't get his a-- outta there & give my brother some room we were gonna find out. Got a response that time. He split.
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[sinergy]

[quote GEEZER]this Asian fellow walked up right next to my brother, not three feet away, and started casting right into the spot where my brother had been casting. , I told him that if he didn't get his a-- outta there & give my brother some room we were gonna find out. Got a response that time. He split.[/quote]

So what your saying is your the little guy in video starting crap with people because there fishing to close ?

Dont get me wrong I've had my fair share of run ins with crowding. I regularly fish the Lower & Middle Provo and had people wade right into my cast. Ive even had a white water rafters dock and unload there customers not 10 feet from were I was fishing.

But fighting someone over a fishing spot really just try to remember the look on the judges face when explaining why you assaulted someone .... LOL
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[Fin-S-Fish]

Damn you hit the nail on the head! That is exactly what he is saying! If that poor guy didn't back off it would be another YOUTUBE video. These guys need to calm down. The world is already an and hateful all over, at least let fishing be peaceful. I had a run in with such a hater not long ago. I took my poor mother who is recovering from breast cancer with full mastectomy and she wasn't even close to some fella and he got all upset from quite a distance, proclaiming a whole dock to be "his." She took one step on the dock and this lunatic went into a loud rampage about people always crowding him and fishing on top of him. Wanted to kick his ass into the water, but I held back the temptation of course. I told him rather civilly that she wasn't even close him at all! He kept up a ton of pretty provoking comments complete with obscenities so i fired off some good choice words that she wasn't **** close to him. He then said that's it I'm gonna go. I even said, just to see how he would react, "you don't have to go, we like company" and he antisocially said "well, I don't" and took off. People like that make the world such a pleasurable and happy place. Yes I said that with much sarcasm.
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[GEEZER]

You totally missed the point. Had it happened to me, I'd have told the jerk what I thought of him & moved away. Not so easy for my brother in his wheelchair over the clumpy riverbank.
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[CoyoteSpinner]

Did it look something like this?

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[wagdog]

Very similar. Check it out:

http://www.bigfishtackle.com/forum/Utah_...ead#unread

I think it was one of the last posts FG made on that particular thread.
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[sinergy]

I hear ya, I've been there, I wanted to knock the !@#$ out of that punk kid on the white water raft. He had the gull to say some crap like this is "there river" and they have permission ect ect. Almost drove to Heber and kicked the door in of the rafting shop.

All he had to do is docked further down or up or even said he was sorry I would have been cool about it.

So I apologize if I made it sound like I came down on you the idiot should not have been casting so close to your brother.

Im just tired of, and im not saying you or anyone else on BFT but tired of moronic people who dont have the common courtesy to one another.,

As far as the the other guy goes that's how they fish in Asia.Im mean look at the previous crowding pictures now imagine if there were 2 billion more people in the country ... Maybe next time stop and explain to him fishing so close is rude im sure he would have been on his marry way.

Now after you tried giving him some direction and he still gave you some lip then its ok throw him in the water. [laugh][laugh][laugh]
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