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.

Life isn't about waiting for the storms to pass.
It's about learning to dance in the rain!!

We use hi vis line, but even then I've had to whistle to get boaters attention to 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..?

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

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 ????

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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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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"

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I love the orange wakeboard idea! As others have said about he other wakeboard story, you handled it much better than I. I can't imagine the wrath my wife would met out had that happened to one of our children.

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'knee board on about 200' of bright ski rope'

(and this is directed specifically to inshore and nearshore trolling--where boat to boat contact is more likely)  i think a lot of novice anglers are of the belief that you have to put 100 yards of line in the water in order to troll.  im sorry, but its not just unnecessary, but it may actually be a detriment.  if you are trolling the bay--on the pickens side, you are most likely trolling in 40' or less of water, even if you are dragging the bottom with S50's, you dont need more than 100 feet of line off the spool (and that does not mean 100 feet behind the boat.  if you are trolling either pensacola shoal, and you have more than 100 feet of line out, then you really ought to look at what others are doing, and emulate.  spanish, reds and kingfish are just not afraid of the boat like big game fish.  i have caught more tournament kingfish in the propwash--or close to it, than on a long trolled line buy 10X or more.  and managing shorter lines is much easier.  case in point--any tournament kingfishers recognize the name of this spot of ft. pierce--the LoRan towers?  how 'bout tournament kingfishing with 300 of your closest friends in basically an area no wider than lighthouse cove.  and very few issues with crossed lines.  mainly due to shorter trolling spreads.  and they work.

surely running over trolled lines is not acceptable, but if anglers would take the time to learn a little more about 'successful trolling', and manage their spread a little more logically, then your own aggravation with mankind would drop sharply. 

not pointing fingers, or defending dipstick boaters actions for crossing trolled lines--just pointing out that one of those 'dipsticks' could be me--if i didnt expect knowlegeable anglers to be trolling lures in 15 feet of water on the shoals, with 200 feet of line out.

cheers.

dre

 

what you get, is what you get.  what you do with what you get is what is important.

Last year had a SOB charter boat try to cut us off while kingfishing, kept circling us and driving acorss our spread, and other boats, finallly a 12T goes off, and we let him have all 600yds of 12 he wanted, Have fun!

sometimes a little reminder of the proper use of manners is acceptable.     they say if you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough.  well, sometimes if you are an ass, you are gonna get spanked!

 

what you get, is what you get.  what you do with what you get is what is important.

THATS CLASSIC!! PLEASE DO US ALL A FAVOR AND MOUNT A VIDEO CAMERA ON THE BACK OF YOUR BOAT.