as much of fan as I am of the olympic anchor toss, I think people just love to hate you. lmao

I stayed out of this one till now. I fish 10-12 times ayear in big lake .. understand that people want to have fun and put family and friends on fish. But you have to treat other fishermen with respect!!!!

Damn this is a first or second, but I'm with YOU!!

I agree on respecting others on the water. Actually, it should be a given that others should be respected regardless of the location. Home, the hwy, the duck blind, on the water fishing, at work wherever. But how does that equate to making fun of their lack of success or choice of fishing equipment? As far as boat launching and on the water etiquette many people were not fourtunate enough to come from families that share this hobby and don't know what the proper etiquette is. You don't know what you don't know. As more experienced boaters we should try to educate them as you did in the previous post fishing birds. That's much more effective than making fun of them.

I don't get to fish often but Saturday me and my Buddy and my son went out of BSL, MS and fished Flat Boat Pass and Brush Island. Miles of islands to fish and we got disrepected twice. One time by a big nautic star the almost drifted into us trying to set an anchor with 7 people on it and the second time by some guys in a Triton running WFO 30 yards off of us while we were fishing a reef.

We only caught 3 keeper trout and burnt up an impeller that we fixed Saturday. Still had a good time being out on the water. My buddy I fished is good friends with a guide, takes 4-6 trips a year with him. He texted him Sat to see how he did and he only caught 11 Trout.

I don't really have a dog in this fight, but just from a casual reading of the posts I can see both points. Yes it is extremely difficult to deal with other boaters that don't know or care about fishing etiquette, but at the same time we're talking about the general public here. BL isn't owned by a private fishing club or anything, so anytime you know you are going to be on public waters you have to just learn to deal with the incompetents and jerks that are always present. Yeah it is pretty funny to see people with all kinds of funny rigs and equipment at the docks. This is a fishing site, people on here know what W's talking about and everybody can get a kick out of it. It's not like he was insulting them to their face.