Red Fly

My wife and I went out late yesterday, didn't have much luck finding bait fish but we did caught a few non-keepers with the bait we did catchwhile fighting a strong outgoing tide in the pass.

We decided to move over to Ft. Picken and lay out some trolling lines and work our way up to Quietwater and grab a bite to eat. We had two rods running lures, pretty well bent so you would recognize that they had lures on them. Within 5 minutes we had a boat cross our wake and clip a line, there goes a lure. It can happen I understand that, we re-rigged and put out another line.

Once again out of no where another boat cut our wake, there went another lure. The question is; should I be running some kind "Hey stupid, I'm trolling" flag? Am I missing something? Or do people just not pay attention?

I notice yesterday while fishing the pass, there were several of us around each other other boats approached with no regard to the amount of wake they were creating. Sorry to sound like I'm venting but I needed it.

reelfinatical

You're not the only one!

We use hi vis line, but even thenI've had to whistleto get boaters attentionto wave them off our lines quite a few times already this season. I mean a few of them were right in behind us too!! I don't get it... I don't think they are paying attention, maybe they don't realize how far back our lines run..?

captken

Years ago, I had the same problem on Dixie Bar 3 trips in a row. On the next trip. I ran a hot orange knee boardon about 200' of bright ski rope. I towed it from the top of a 4' length of pipe in my center rod holder.

Yes, it was in the way some but easy to avoid when fighting fish and, oh yes, I was called an asshole several times but I lost no more lures and had no more tangles.

You might to add some surveyor's flagging tape to the tow line and maybe even a flag to the kneeboard. You gotta remember, all boaters aren't fishermen, some boaters are totally Sh!+faced while operating the boats, others don't care and some don't have a clue.

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Backlash

Dont know about the tow rope or a knee board, i had my son out on a board on blackwater

river, he does his best to stay on and i do my best to knock him off:letsparty

these jerks in a bayliner went between him and the boat with him in the water just after

he fell off, got the rope on there lower unit somehow and started pulling us backwards,

well they stoped (had to) my tow rope was messed up , scared my son to death, and they

were as***les about it, short of jumping aboard there boat with a gaff, i went my way

and them theres, i was very mad to say the least, my son did not want to ride anymore

so we called it a day, went back to the boat ramp and loaded up, before we left my son

said that the truck and trailer we were parked next to belonged to the creeps in the

bayliner, well i know it was wrong and i should not have done it with my son there

or at all, some how the air got let out of the tires on the trailer and i left the tow rope

on it, later i told my son thats NOT how to handle being mad and that i was wrong for

doing that... What would you have done ????:hoppingmad

Emerald Ghost

The inconsiderate trash that you and your son were subjected to, obviously needed

(what Sheriff Buford T. Justice referred to as) an Attention-Getter.



Well Sir,...... that was an attention -getter!



LMAO

Tuna Man

Speaking of back in my younger days.... You are a better man then I. "That's ALL I got to say about that"

captken

I hope you used your pocket knife to let the air out of their tires.

Yeah, not cool to let your kid see the operation. Things like that are best learned without being shown.

Unfortunately, there is no cure for stupidity. I could make a fortune if I could invent a cure for stupidity.

Food for thought: Ever find an unlocked lock in the road? I can think of all sorts of things to do with one for the types who take up 4 parking spaces at the ramp, block you in a parking space, etc. I was a Boy Scout for a short while. One thing I remember: "Be Prepared."

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TURTLE

You are absolutley not alone.Me and my family must have the equivalent to lunker sauce for A holes on our boat, cause they are definitly attracted to it.I don't care where we beach our boat around ft pickens, we always have multiple idiots fly by 20ft from shore knocking the boat sideways and some times swamping it.And I hate to say it , but most of them are fisherman, I would like to think not from around here.And as far as trolling, I have also had the cutt off problem, mostly in the pass but in other areas as well.I do agree with the gentleman who had the knee board situation with his son, in the respect that some one needed to get there attention.I think he did the right thing by explaining to his boy it was not the right way to handle it , while at the same time showing him that he was being protective.Never endanger a mans kids.Dumb Dumb Dumb!!!! I hope we all continue to have more good times then bad out there , good fishing everybody.

JoshH

Get a hailer. Its the most fun you can have in a boat (yeah I know :doh) Mount the speaker facing backwards and when someone comes too close you can voice your opinion.

redfish99999

A long time ago, an old charter captain said to me....."Those are YOUR lines, Son.....It's YOUR job to tend them".......

Between the VHF BS channel, arm-waving and talking, I've never lost a rig.....BUT, I've remembered that "Those are MY lines to tend"