Disagreements while steelhead fishing

H3Fisher
Where to start... lol
 
Guys not reeling in their lines when someone hooks up, but that same person flips out when no one else does.
 
Guy walking right in the middle of someones drift they were fishing. I thought they were gonna fight, had the phone ready! lol
 
Netting a fish, guy see's where you were fishing. and walked right on top of your stuff as you walk down to net the fish. This has happened several times. Best excuse, I have a licence, I'll fish where I want. What you going to do about it. And.. If there is an issue we can settle it now.
 
 
Did hear the one year a guy up the stop sign or battle wall pulled a gun on someone. I was down stream and heard the cops pulling in.

CAPTAIN HOOK
See that does affect me when people feel they are above the law and blatantly flaunt it. No one has to enforce the rules, but calling out someone who is breaking the law isn't wrong. I hate to tell you that is an assault, when someone punches you first and there are consequences legally. I agree there are some nuts today that carry weapons and one should judge carefully before a confrontation of words or actions.  Maybe I wouldn't have pushed it to that limit with words if that's what the old guy did, but the other guy went way overboard punching that guy. What if that was your dad that just got popped ? Wrong is wrong and sometimes someone is bothered and has to step up as that older guy did. Was it worth it ? Probably not, but I'll give the old guy credit ....he spoke up to that foreign snagging bully! 
 
Like I say I wasn't there so I might not be judging this right.
 
Hope the old guy has some big sons that like to fish and fight !

rmcmillen09
Was fishing walnut at the gap to the ramp north side ,fish were only 4' from wall and we were just flip dropping baits to them. A guy south side of gap started throwing like a #4 roostertail over our lines repeatedly crossed and tangled jerking hard just completely ignorant. Finally I walked back to my truck and got my heavy fiberglass musky rod with 20lb mono and set it down on the spot. He casted it right over my heavy outfit and I ripped it so hard his rod about came out of his hands reeled it in just as hard cut the roostertail off and told him to come see me for your lure. He never came over ?

bassackwards
 Man, Pellet-head chasers are some bad a** mo-fo's. A force to be reckoned with wearing their funny little waders and big snagging rods. I have pellet-head fished on and off for 20 years, and other than one or two incidents, really everyone stays quite and vents later to their buddies. I just can't do it anymore. Everyone is a snagger, everyone crowds everyone, everyone is beneath everyone. It kills me that everyone laughs about the guys on the opening day of normal trout season, yet you guys do that same crap everyday. 
 
I don't understand the pellet-head scene......why can't you just walk into the stream, pick out your favorite 3.....scoop them up and head home ? The way you have to fish in Erie, it really would be more of a sport to just pick em' up. You could toss 1 or 2 brown trout in and give a prize for the token brownie. The kiddo's would go crazy. Heck, slap numbers on the side of them and give prizes based on the number you get. 
 
 However.....I still say, the worse thing about the concrete dock pellet-headers is the lack of respect to reel up your line when we come in to dock. Arguing with a fisherman over a spot is kinda stupid to me....same with arguing over snagging....but you get your line caught in my prop.....the cops do get called (not the fishy cops, the real cops). I have more in my motors than I have in both of my trucks, and car combined. The fish cops should be working that scene rather than worrying about stocked trout. 
 
 
 
 

bassackwards
 Man, Pellet-head chasers are some bad a** mo-fo's. A force to be reckoned with wearing their funny little waders and big snagging rods. I have pellet-head fished on and off for 20 years, and other than one or two incidents, really everyone stays quite and vents later to their buddies. I just can't do it anymore. Everyone is a snagger, everyone crowds everyone, everyone is beneath everyone. It kills me that everyone laughs about the guys on the opening day of normal trout season, yet you guys do that same crap everyday. 
 
I don't understand the pellet-head scene......why can't you just walk into the stream, pick out your favorite 3.....scoop them up and head home ? The way you have to fish in Erie, it really would be more of a sport to just pick em' up. You could toss 1 or 2 brown trout in and give a prize for the token brownie. The kiddo's would go crazy. Heck, slap numbers on the side of them and give prizes based on the number you get. 
 
 However.....I still say, the worse thing about the concrete dock pellet-headers is the lack of respect to reel up your line when we come in to dock. Arguing with a fisherman over a spot is kinda stupid to me....same with arguing over snagging....but you get your line caught in my prop.....the cops do get called (not the fishy cops, the real cops). I have more in my motors than I have in both of my trucks, and car combined. The fish cops should be working that scene rather than worrying about stocked trout. 
 
 
 
 

CAPTAIN HOOK
Not a bad combo Bob......
 
Your right probably best to just avoid the situation over a stupid fish.
 
If the old guy was over running his mouth and carrying on he should have known a little better with that low life. Still don't think he deserved a sucker punch!
 
Your a better and calmer man than me though. If somebody like that popped my dad, or son, or good friend ,for expressing his opinion against someone (as long as he's not screaming or carrying on crazy like, or threating that person )  who is snagging fish sorry to say I'm in that battle too! I'm not a passive type person, but at an older age I'm aware now of my physical limits. 15 years ago.....would not hesitate a second to retaliate on a scum bag like that if he sucker punched one of mine..... just my Italian temper. 
 
 

bassackwards

CAPTAIN HOOK
See that does affect me when people feel they are above the law and blatantly flaunt it. No one has to enforce the rules, but calling out someone who is breaking the law isn't wrong. I hate to tell you that is an assault, when someone punches you first and there are consequences legally. I agree there are some nuts today that carry weapons and one should judge carefully before a confrontation of words or actions.  Maybe I wouldn't have pushed it to that limit with words if that's what the old guy did, but the other guy went way overboard punching that guy. What if that was your dad that just got popped ? Wrong is wrong and sometimes someone is bothered and has to step up as that older guy did. Was it worth it ? Probably not, but I'll give the old guy credit ....he spoke up to that foreign snagging bully! 
 
Like I say I wasn't there so I might not be judging this right.
 
Hope the old guy has some big sons that like to fish and fight !

Nope, you read it right. It was what it was. We were all a bit appalled by it, but I could see the point where the old man had it coming. However, none of us were going to step into the battle, and certainly no one was going to pull a gun out. That is where the real trouble would have began for everyone. It was two guys who disagreed (whether above the law or not), and one guy lost. I think most people on the stream that day were wishing the old man would shut-up. The snagger thought he was above the law, and the old man thought he was above the law by trying to enforce it (which is illegal as well).
 
It if was my old man, I would have ask him what he learned, just like he did to me when I was a kid. I also would have asked the age old question, "was it worth it" ? And just for fun.... On Christmas day, during dinner, I would ask him to tell the story about the day he got his a** kicked on the stream.  
 
It is a fish......not someone trying to kidnap your kid. There is a place to fight, and a place to not fight. However, once you start running your mouth, there are consequences as well. Being "right" does not always win. 
 
 
 
 

bingsbaits
Mabee some of you snowflakes should just stay in your Safe Space....