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I probably sounded like a jerk but coming up from behind within a few yards of guys bottom fishing and immediately playing with your FF is NOT cool.
I try to give as many good reports as possible and give out as many tips as possible, to a point that a few guys wont even talk to me any more. former pier guys of course
However, proper etiquette is to not come up on fellow yakkers who are obviously bottom fishing, the fifteen pound red snapper that I was holding up should have given you a clue.
Yall can ask Bbarton, when I come up on people I dont recognize I holler from a good distance away and ask if its cool to approach just in case they are bottom fishing. Us yakkers are a friendly bunch and generally happy to be with other people but given the distance between spots, and lack there of, a little courtesy goes a long way with us bottom bumping guys.
Whoever you are, Id be happy to take you out as long as you dont bring any electronics and I promise Im not as big of a jerk as I may have sounded. :thumbsup:
Other then some snapper the day was frighteningly slow. A few spanish and a bobo and that is about it. Only other highlight was seeing my first greater hammerhead. He was following a big school of bobos and that tall skinny dorsal was instantly recognizable. I came up to him and tossed him a cig, he whirled around on it a few times and never ate. Then, he decides to come right at me and he was a bit bigger then he looked from further away. A good seven feet or so, really cool, just wish he would have ate.
I try to give as many good reports as possible and give out as many tips as possible, to a point that a few guys wont even talk to me any more. former pier guys of course
However, proper etiquette is to not come up on fellow yakkers who are obviously bottom fishing, the fifteen pound red snapper that I was holding up should have given you a clue.Yall can ask Bbarton, when I come up on people I dont recognize I holler from a good distance away and ask if its cool to approach just in case they are bottom fishing. Us yakkers are a friendly bunch and generally happy to be with other people but given the distance between spots, and lack there of, a little courtesy goes a long way with us bottom bumping guys.
Whoever you are, Id be happy to take you out as long as you dont bring any electronics and I promise Im not as big of a jerk as I may have sounded. :thumbsup:
Other then some snapper the day was frighteningly slow. A few spanish and a bobo and that is about it. Only other highlight was seeing my first greater hammerhead. He was following a big school of bobos and that tall skinny dorsal was instantly recognizable. I came up to him and tossed him a cig, he whirled around on it a few times and never ate. Then, he decides to come right at me and he was a bit bigger then he looked from further away. A good seven feet or so, really cool, just wish he would have ate.
