Watching the MLF last Saturday I was pleased to see Tac Omouri stop by and fish my dock. If I had been there I would have told him it doesn't usually hold any fish. He did get a 1#er next door though. Darn TV show did remind me the dock needs paint.
Watching the MLF last Saturday I was pleased to see Tac Omouri stop by and fish my dock. If I had been there I would have told him it doesn't usually hold any fish. He did get a 1#er next door though. Darn TV show did remind me the dock needs paint.
LMAOOriginally Posted by ken1okie
There is a dock right next to a public boat ramp here on the St Johns river with cameras on it. The owner is a complete ******* and would yell and cuss at you and threaten to call the law if you fished his dock or got near it , and he even went as far as calling my friends wife a whore one day as they were trolling by his dock going to the boat ramp. Everyone here knew what kind of guy he was. The other day I was loading my boat and there was an older gentleman, in his 70's I'm guessing, sitting on a park bench watching the river and people load their boats. He and I got to talking and he said "Well I guess all the bassfisherman will be happy now" as he pointed at the *******s dock. I asked if the old man had moved and this guys response totally shocked me. He said " Nope even better the man got mad at someone fishing his dock and shot himself in his garage. And now the neighborhood will be having a party." He said " The old neighborhood that guy and his wife had lived in before moving to the river had a party when they moved away and it was only fitting that their neighborhood now would have a party now that he was gone." I was in total shock and got me to thinking about how crappy it would be to live life being the biggest ******* there was that your neighborhood celebrated your death.
Agree with Mark. Never fish a dock/pier with people on it. There is no need to create anything that would possibly turn out bad.
I had a cup of coffee thrown at me when I was told to leave and I said no! If I get pestered now, I just tell the person that I'm fishing for $10k, usually that starts a good conversation and they leave me alone!
I have only had a couple issues in the past. I always pass by docks if people are out on them. The worst was in northern MN when my brother and I took out my grandma (in her 70's at the time) fishing very early in the morning.....like 5:30am-ish. We pulled up at a shallow area with docks and someone, that was likely still drunk from the night before, yells down from the house. "If you don't get away from my dock, I am getting my gun." Needless to say we hightailed it out of that area. Nowadays I would likely call the sheriff or something, but this was a few years ago when I was younger and didn't want to deal with it.
2 of the good:
Fishing a line of docks with multi-million dollar mansions. Coming up from the side, we didn't see the homeowner until we came around the front of the dock. Total trophy wife in a bikini sitting out sunning herself and playing on her phone. She saw us and struck up a conversation, so we continued to fish while she continued to play on her phone, all while we continued the conversation. Had to keep my buddy focused on boat control since he was on the trolling motor. HA
Same lake, different set of docks. Guy had a huge yacht, a couple of jet skies, but also a nice Lund on his dock system. Wasn't there 20 seconds and down comes the homeowner, so we thought "here we go". Turns out he wanted to see what we were catching, share the story of how he wrecked his prop on the Lund on another lake and what he caught there, pointed out a couple of weedbeds where guys normally get a few, and the best part.....to bitch about the wakeboard boat that kept going by within casting distance! Turned out we had more in common than expected.
2 of the bad:
Approaching a dock and made our first pitch to it. Down runs this old man from the house, bitching and complaining about the bass fisherman leaving lures on his dock. He was throwing so many F bombs in the conversation it would make anyone blush. Went on and on about his grandson having to worry about getting hooked with a lure, continuing to throw the F bombs in every other word. I finally just smiled and said "I feel sorry for your grandson. With a mouth like yours, you're one hell of a role model". That really got him going and we just trolled away laughing, the whole time he kept swearing.
Fished an isolated dock that wasn't connected to shore or anything else. The owner had to take a small v-bottom boat with a 10hp or something to even get to it. We fished it early in the morning thinking he wouldn't be around, as he's known for hating bass fisherman and not afraid to encounter them. Well, it wasn't early enough. He saw us approaching the dock (held 4 or 5 speed boats) and he came running down his dock, hopped in the little v-bottom, and proceeded to come over to us and literally did donuts around us and the dock trying to throw the biggest wake he could on us and the dock itself. Then tied off and got on the dock, and started sweeping all of the duck and goose crap into the water. We let him go for a bit, but once he started sweeping out at us, we finally had to have words....(had it happened in the current age of smartphones, I would've just videoed him and called the authorities, but this was years ago)
Yeah I typically don't fish docks when people are on them, the encounters are usually when people run down from their deck or lawn as you approach
I go out with a slingshot and run em off.
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