I've never had a bad experience with nearby boaters. I fish mostly passes (Calcasieu, Belle, Caminada) and Turner's Bay. The breaks in the jetties at Calcasieu pass often lead to a bit of congestion as some folks are fishing when a boat has to pass through and it's too rough to safely go around the end.
We've even had a number of boats invite us closer to share whatever bait was working at the time. Everyone's always been completely cool. A couple of weeks ago, we tried to make the trip around the end to get back to the channel, but it was just too rough, so we went back to the break in the rocks even though it meant crowding a couple of boats. The boats were completely cool about it and we gave one boat our leftover crab, as they had been flogging the rocks with plastics hoping for flounder but were skunked and looking for a change-up.
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