10-27-2013, 03:02 PM
[#0000FF]There seems to be guys like that on every body of water I have ever fished...all over the country. Just because they once fished a spot they feel that is theirs forever and nobody else has a right to fish it. And it ain't just on lakes...streams too...maybe even worse.
That mindset really shows up at big bass tournaments when someone has prefished a spot and has it pegged for their go-to starting point when the game begins. If a fellow competitor is there it can get noisy. If an unsuspecting local angler just happens to be on the spot they are likely to get blasted with a surface to surface missile...that looks a lot like a big crankbait.
And forget logic. When one of these dorks moves in on top of you...or tries to holler you off the spot...it doesn't matter what you say. They just don't listen and don't care. I once had a favorite spot I fished almost every Saturday morning on a lake down in Arizona...in my tube. One of those mornings a guy comes blasting back into the cove I was in...wide open with his Bass-O-Tron. He almost ran over me after an abrupt shutdown and a big wave that almost washed me up on shore. Then he yelled that this was his spot that he always fished and that he had just driven over an hour to get there. When I told him I had also been fishing it regularly...for years...and that I had driven even further...he started up the big motor and made two or three wide open turns around inside the now destroyed cove and then went screaming off across the lake. What a sportsman.
After trying several attempts at politely suggesting that those guys give us more space...and finding that subtlety was wasted on them...we just agreed to let it play out and avoid a direct confrontation. And these days you never know who is "packing" and what it will take to set them off. So
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That mindset really shows up at big bass tournaments when someone has prefished a spot and has it pegged for their go-to starting point when the game begins. If a fellow competitor is there it can get noisy. If an unsuspecting local angler just happens to be on the spot they are likely to get blasted with a surface to surface missile...that looks a lot like a big crankbait.
And forget logic. When one of these dorks moves in on top of you...or tries to holler you off the spot...it doesn't matter what you say. They just don't listen and don't care. I once had a favorite spot I fished almost every Saturday morning on a lake down in Arizona...in my tube. One of those mornings a guy comes blasting back into the cove I was in...wide open with his Bass-O-Tron. He almost ran over me after an abrupt shutdown and a big wave that almost washed me up on shore. Then he yelled that this was his spot that he always fished and that he had just driven over an hour to get there. When I told him I had also been fishing it regularly...for years...and that I had driven even further...he started up the big motor and made two or three wide open turns around inside the now destroyed cove and then went screaming off across the lake. What a sportsman.
After trying several attempts at politely suggesting that those guys give us more space...and finding that subtlety was wasted on them...we just agreed to let it play out and avoid a direct confrontation. And these days you never know who is "packing" and what it will take to set them off. So
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