John B.

i once jumped off the pier to get a kids rod that he dropped in the water (yes it's illegal, no i don't care)

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mpmorr

I cant say that there was any animosity amongst anyone on the pier that day. I could see where some tempers could flare, but all in all it seemed like folks that love to fish were doing what they loved to do. I imagine it would be likea rookie fishing on a tournament boat and screwing up and causing the team to lose a good fish. I would expect a good ass chewing after that. Seems similar in spirit. The us vs. them crap is just ridiculous.

SheYakFishr

I've fished off the pier several times (met Konz out there) and everyone was very nice. Of course... I wouldn't of jumped into the pile that was at the end for anything.. laffs. Being that I grew up on a pier... I know how the guys on the end are...... (laffs)... but I still do enjoy going when I can. Everyone is there for one reason... to FISH!!!

BayStealth

:reallycrying What a bunch of whiners . . . Just throw these little turds in the ocean / Gulf / whatever and let them swim to the beach with there 5 - 6 rods! And NO . . . We can't all just get along!:nonono

John B.

dang... that was a mature reply

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philhensley

The easy way to control the number of rods, is like the Atlantic Coast piers do, charge per rod to fish. They charge $4.00 per rod to fish.

BayStealth

thanks VS:clap

kingfish501

If you want things done the way they do it on the Atlantic Coast, feel free to move there...enough of changing things to suit people coming in.

kingfish501

BayStealth....I have had waYYYYYYYYY more bad experiences with people fishing from boats than I have had at the pier.I run a flats boat but fish places like the Mass.Two of us in flatsboats were flyfishing for big Spanish and were the only ones catching any, so a lot of the boats there decided the way to handle that was to pull their anchors and run back and forth a few feet from us.I'e had a guy on a 30 foot Tiara not use chain, and try using a 2-1 scope keep drifting on top of me and then tell me I needed to pull my anchor and move the hell out of his way because he was trying to get anchored.Had big boats run on top of the wreck and on top of my bait trying to catch hardtails...when I asked them to at least shut their engines down they offered to board my boat and gie me a whoopin'.Had boats move to 10 feet off my stern and drop anchor because we were hitting fish after fish and they were not...while we were fishing off the stern.I'e been working a cobia on a fly and had a boat run up full bore and nail the cobe in the head with a jig, claiming that 1)they were cobia fishing and 2) cobia could not be caught on a fly.These examples don't even scratch the surface of rudeness on the water...so simple enough...if you wander out to the pier and expect us to vacate the pier because you are there...you need to be on a boat fishing.

A#%holes are not just on the pier...many many on boats are complete a-holes given the chance.

sailmaker

This all kind of backs up my point in another post, "that's why god invented boats", and yes, I own one and use it when I'm down there. When I'm lucky enough to GET down there the last thing in the world that I want to do [not counting my wife or myself dropping dead or getting hurt or having vehicle or boat trouble] is deal with jerks of any sex, age, creed color, size, shape or form! Unfortunately, piers in any location always have way more than their fair share of all of the above.