etiquette story, lol.

[jim4596]

all this talk about the bent pole pattern and fishing etiquette and all reminded me of what happened to me last week. i was fishing a ledge with a dd22 with a friend that never gets to fish. i handed him a rod and he cast it out and catches a fish. the drag was a little loose on the reel so the fish starts pulling drag. wasnt a huge fish, maybe 3 or 3.5 lbs. so i am trying to get my lure in so i can help him and the fish is still way out there. he is trying to reel, but the drag is too loose to gain any line. the fish continues pulling drag despite him reeling. he is so excited about the fish. well naturally the fish runs to the top of the water and comes up and jumps. then a ski boat pulling a skier cuts between my boat and my buddies jumping fish. of course it cuts my line, i lose my dd22, and my buddy lost his fish. emoEek

 

[fishmedic]

Ouch, That hurts. well least it wasnt a lucky craft CB. emoBang

 

[timbo]

I don't post here much, but I do read most of the posts here. I think ya'll might get a kick out of some of the stuff we used to do in saltwater to potlickers. I was camping for the weekend in Galveston Tx, and fishing quite a few of the back bays in my kayak. I had three yahoo's in a boat that would run up on me every time my rod would bend. I decided to get away from them and paddle over to a small inlet that was deep enough for my kayak but not enough for a boat. I was fishing there for about 30 minutes and hooked into a nice red. Before I even had the fish to my kayak, I heard the boat start up and start getting louder. I released the red and turned to these guys to stop them from getting stuck-too late. They ran up on the reef, damaging the gelcoat and probably there prop. They had to get out of the boat (this was in February, about 45 degrees or so and push there boat off. The next day, these same guys come up on me again and run straight through the birds I was catching trout underneath. I had a bag of potato chips in the kayak with me, so I crunched them up and dumped them in the water and paddled off and watched. One of the guys spots the chip slick and the birds diving at the water and points so they run over to the slick and start casting. I paddled further into the back bay and watched while they kept casting in to the Lays potato chip slick, while I was sight casting to tailing redfish.

 

[Nickajack Angler]

That's hilarious!