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Thursday my friend and I went paddy hopping. Slowwww fishing in the early part of the day, quite a few paddy's with good temp up to 75.1 south of Laussen. About noon we found a very nice kelp with lots of life. We work for 15 minutes to chum up a nice mix of dodo and yt's and hook one up. In the distance we see a boat, as soon as it see's us hookup it comes racing over and starts circling us about 25 to 75 feet away.
There was no to slight wind and current so we are dead in the water about 25 feet from the paddy and hooked up. Next thing we know this mid 30" range boat comes right up next to us with twin engines which they left running. Thats bad enough! It gets worse!
As all this is going on, here comes another boat. A 30' or so proline with twin outboards and 5 guys ob. They were cruising past about 1/4 mile off, then make a hard turn towards us and the first boat. They motor right up to, then onto the paddy with engines running. In the process they run over the line of our hooked fish! Needless to say the bite died and my buddy was bummed he lost a nice dodo (it jumped twice). At that point we cleared our lines and left to look for another paddy. The others were still there.
I know no one owns the paddy (or the fish), but a little courtesy sure would be nice to start with. Common sense would be even better!
Up to that point we had not had a boat within a mile of us while stopped fishing. It appears that good judgement and courtesy have given way to greed. Why look for fish and paddy's on your own, use the motto - "There hooked up and i'm going right in to where they are - screw-um". These other boaters just barged thier way in and killed the bite for all of us. No waves, no radio call, just slammed thier way in! I guess this is the way they do it now.
Just think, this was on thursday, wait for the weekend!
Just my personal rant, thanks for the chance to vent.
There was no to slight wind and current so we are dead in the water about 25 feet from the paddy and hooked up. Next thing we know this mid 30" range boat comes right up next to us with twin engines which they left running. Thats bad enough! It gets worse!
As all this is going on, here comes another boat. A 30' or so proline with twin outboards and 5 guys ob. They were cruising past about 1/4 mile off, then make a hard turn towards us and the first boat. They motor right up to, then onto the paddy with engines running. In the process they run over the line of our hooked fish! Needless to say the bite died and my buddy was bummed he lost a nice dodo (it jumped twice). At that point we cleared our lines and left to look for another paddy. The others were still there.
I know no one owns the paddy (or the fish), but a little courtesy sure would be nice to start with. Common sense would be even better!
Up to that point we had not had a boat within a mile of us while stopped fishing. It appears that good judgement and courtesy have given way to greed. Why look for fish and paddy's on your own, use the motto - "There hooked up and i'm going right in to where they are - screw-um". These other boaters just barged thier way in and killed the bite for all of us. No waves, no radio call, just slammed thier way in! I guess this is the way they do it now.
Just think, this was on thursday, wait for the weekend!
Just my personal rant, thanks for the chance to vent.