Allowed to shame people on here?

[Vollmers]

I figured you would have mentioned the tracks story from pelican last weekend?

Buddy has a great story about fishing a point all by his lonesome, catch a few fish and the horde moves in. Bite turns off, slide out deeper, catch some fish, the horde moves back in. Slide back up shallow and he hooks into a ~8# carp, sees what it is and he and his brother go into full-on trophy walleye conniption fit. Running around the boat, drag's backed off so the fish can run, bother's running up and down the boat behind him dragging the net and they're howling like banshee's about the big walleye. Of course the horde descends upon them once again and when he's sufficiently surrounded, he allows the carp to be netted and his brother swings it up high enough so that everyone in the crowd of boats can see they'd been "had". He and his brother got a bit of a giggle out of the whole thing.

 

[Mort]

The way I see it...sounds like most fisherman are too lazy to find the fish themselves and just run around the river/lake looking to see where everyone is congregate the most, so in their mind, they think thats where the fish are. REAL fisherman do their own homework IMO and don't need to follow everyone else

 

[westwolfone]

It's a Minnesota tradition that has apparently spread westward.

 

[shorthairsrus]

Lowrance or Bushnell. Which fish locator should I get???

 

[SDMF]

Lowrance or Bushnell. Which fish locator should I get???

Meopta is a better value than both.

 

[cornman53]

I was stopped out in the middle of the east end one hot summer day, not a single boat in sight. I was in about a hundred feet of water, and was just there for a moment to reorganize and get a couple lines tied up....meanwhile we hear a boat in the distance, and its getting louder, next thing we know that boat shuts down 30 feet away from us...we both stare at him with our dumbfounded heads cocked to the side and politely wave n say "hi". Right before he puts a line in, i see the guy use his hand to block the sun from his graph, shake his head, (obviously noticing were in 100 FOW) and leave.

This was undeniable proof that guys get on the lake and just look for other boats to fish by.

Had a similar incident when I was running across the lake from Hazen Bay to Douglas. Half way across the lake my water pressure went to zero and alarmed. I shut off the motor and my buddy and I pulled the cowl of the motor and started to investigate. We were in probably 80 foot of water. We had a guy pull up behind up behind us and we thought he was stopping to offer assistance. Instead he and his buddy start dropping lines. We looked at each other in amazement. We found a loose wire, fixed it and we left them to fish in the middle of the lake.

 

[dean nelson]

Lowrance or Bushnell. Which fish locator should I get???

I use a window mounted Leopold.

 

[SDMF]

I use a window mounted Leopold.

Probably makes it easier to see the leading edge of things. (grin)

 

[SerchforPerch]

smoky, tower of power, mercury's!!

Tall dark and Handsome, looks better on your transom!!

 

[MSA]

If this would've been me MSA; I probably would have tooled around way outside your perimeter. If I were out of ideas; I'd hail you to discuss why we were both there as you shouldn't be...I'd appreciate a quick/good discussion on contours as you moved along: Not really. I'd feel like a total freakn' expert if I motored up to your hole. I'm very curious and considerate.

Svnmag, youre welcome to motor up to my hole anytime, just be polite and buy me a drink first.

 

[DirtyMike]

Tall dark and Handsome, looks better on your transom!!

Although nostalgic, I'll stick with my F80.

 

[Lycanthrope]

Didnt look like he pulled in too close to you.... Ive had people pull in a lot closer to me and never got whiny about it. If you wanna pitch jigs, maybe find a less known hole to do it in.

 

[Riggen&Jiggen]

Yes in dead those above water fish finders are in good use by some. Almost every outing I will pull into a spot with the nearest boat being at least an 1/8th of a mile away which is pretty easy to do on Sak and once we catch a couple fish here come the boats.

 

[Kurtr]

Nice thing about fishing out of a pontoon no one thinks about pirating a pontoon so i dont have these first world boat problems

 

[dean nelson]

Svnmag, youre welcome to motor up to my hole anytime, just be polite and buy me a drink first.

Who brings the lube?

 

[johnr]

I normally have putrid gas, and it seems to keep the looky lous away. They might pull in for a brief moment, but quickly gasp and head on out. mrs johnr has come to enjoy it, or so I tell her...haha

 

[svnmag]

Svnmag, youre welcome to motor up to my hole anytime, just be polite and buy me a drink first.

Hee Hee. You do get what I'm saying? I'm not a pirate and would be confident I'm on the right track if I spied you in "my" spot.

 

[eyexer]

I always thought flare guns were for keeping your fishing area clear of riff raff

 

[deleted user]

I know it's a dead horse, but I was in DL today and packed my gear to do some shore fishing before I headed back to Bismarck. I went to a certain road on the east side that happened to be pretty popular with folks targeting white bass. I was the only guy on the north side of the bridge and I was way north, by the curve in the road (a mile from everyone with nobody between us. I hooked a hammer handle pike and before I could grab a new minnow, a van load of people (seriously 8) spread out on both sides of me, barely enough room to cast straight out, and mind you it's windy today. Well since there's two vehicles parked here it must be the spot, now there's so many vans there's no room to park. I've been sitting here watching as I type this and nobody's caught a thing. I don't get it.

 

[shorthairsrus]

Hmong blue platers