I've been to big lake quite a few times, and I fish the bay/point when they're biting there. I have to say big lake is a little better, but there's so much more "good" fishing water there, so it keeps the fishermen spread out.
The bay/point is two places at the same time. When the trout are mainly on the outside reefs and rigs, I love it because most times you can find a spot where you're fishing alone and limiting out. Last summer was probably my best summer, we caught limits nearly every trip, and only a few times did I fish with other boats around.
When the fish come in, its a whole different story... I've had a 24' skeeter hit us with his boat. We were anchored off the main point catching, when this guy kills his motor 150' off of us and drifts straight into our anchor line with his trolling motor with leads his boat directly at the nose of ours. I wasn't ugly to him, because he's obviously an idiot and probably already knows that. The worse I've seen it though, was there were these two guys in an aluminum boat, and as soon as someone would catch a fish, it was full blast with their trolling motor and they'd go directly where you were casting. I can't even count how many times I've reeled up trout on the sides of other peoples boat, because they don't give people any room. I'll be power poled down catching with not a soul around, and 5 minutes later I'm playing bumper boats with the biggest idiots who want to be friends asking you questions like "you catching?", you tell me MF you the one who came straight to the middle of nowhere where I KNOW you've never fished before, because we just came across a random school of fish.
SO to answer your question. Vbay during the fall is the absolute worse. FULL of potlickers and people who purely cannot fish. You can always tell who the fishermen are though, and its nice when you come along them. You may cross drifts, they see you catch but they don't bother you, and you do the same to them.
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