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I don't know about you but it seems every time I fish some "weekend Warrior Yahoo" in their Clorox shaped water toy comes out of no where,full bore yards away through four or five other boats while we fish! This time I captured this Yahoo in his Clorox bottle with fender flapping in the breeze. http://capeannimages.blogspot.com/20...ng-harbor.html
A few years ago I was about 10 miles out and no one in sight. Off in the distance I see a 40+ foot sportfisherman coming my way. When he was about 100 yards away he was still on course @ full speed heading right at me. That's when I fired up the engine and grabbed a herring ready to throw at him. About 50 yards away he slowed down,came about and four girls @ the transom flashed me! I was then more mad I didn't have the camera in my hand instead of a rotten herring! http://capeannimages.blogspot.com/20...ng-harbor.html
LOL... threads like this are a big part of the reason I joined the forum.....as a new and first time boat owner I want to make sure I'm never that "yahoo".
Soooo aside from not driving with the fenders out ..... what is considered appropriate distance when approaching / passing boats that are fishing.... in order to be considerate??? Fill me in please.
I couldn't agree with you guys more. I've been fishing a lot of weekdays this Spring because of my work schedule, but the weather was so nice this past Sunday, I felt like doing some Sea Bass fishing. I left my dock at 5:30 am, snapped the below pic. with my cell phone while in the State channel, just before leaving the Jones Inlet. I had a nice morning catching some feed frenzied Blue fish and took 2 nice Sea Bass off a rock pile. So, around noon I decide to head in....... well, I didn't take a pic, but lets just say the same State channel that was so serene about 6 hours earlier, was filled with idiots on waverunners with NO CLUE and only concern seemed to be jumping a boats wake, and idiots in ugly boats (read Renker, bayliner...sorry, it's true) again with NO CLUE about navigation. I'm glad I spent most of the day in the Atlantic, but next weekend I'm out of the inlet, I'm waiting for dusk before heading back (weather permitting).
LOL... threads like this are a big part of the reason I joined the forum.....as a new and first time boat owner I want to make sure I'm never that "yahoo".
Soooo aside from not driving with the fenders out ..... what is considered appropriate distance when approaching / passing boats that are fishing.... in order to be considerate??? Fill me in please.
Hard to really answer that. Number of variables. Not just distance, but speed (yours,) amount/type of wake your vessel throws and what it is the anglers are fishing for. Often common sense will give a good start to answering the question. Also, sometimes, the shoe is on the other foot, and people insist on fishing where they are asking for others to come too close too fast (in a marked channel, near the pier of a bridge which is next to the marked boating span, etc.)
How close you should get to some guys still-fishing or poling in very shallow waters for easily spooked species (like in the Florida Keys back country) is one thing, and how close and how fast near somebody trolling in the opposite direction in fairly heavy wave action in the open ocean are different deals. Often, it is OK to come closer if you slow down and restrict the wake.
Sorry not to be more specific....I'm sure others will chime in.
I was about 3 miles outside the harbor in about 110' of water. What gets me is they see a group of boats miles away and don't change course the slightest but insist on barreling through the group. The group I was in were probably spaced out to fit inside a football field. Common courtesy at least tells you when you see a boat anchored or drift fishing in which I was doing, to watch your wake. http://capeannimages.blogspot.com/20...ng-harbor.html
Hard to really answer that. Number of variables. Not just distance, but speed (yours,) amount/type of wake your vessel throws and what it is the anglers are fishing for. Often common sense will give a good start to answering the question. Also, sometimes, the shoe is on the other foot, and people insist on fishing where they are asking for others to come too close too fast (in a marked channel, near the pier of a bridge which is next to the marked boating span, etc.)
How close you should get to some guys still-fishing or poling in very shallow waters for easily spooked species (like in the Florida Keys back country) is one thing, and how close and how fast near somebody trolling in the opposite direction in fairly heavy wave action in the open ocean are different deals. Often, it is OK to come closer if you slow down and restrict the wake.
Sorry not to be more specific....I'm sure others will chime in.
Thanks for the advice.... everything you said makes perfect sense
First, THT's membership is both widespread and numerous.
Second, most of you guys work straight day, M-F jobs.
Thrice, We have all read threads here on THT where a fellow member is either the do-er or the do-ee.
Ponit is we have all met the weekend warrior and sometimes he is us!
Consideration comes with a sliding scale, I have noticed it is measured both going and a commin, not always in equal measures. Common courtesy is usually the first thing that goes.
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Elmo the Boat Dog
My favorite type of boat going thru the fleet is a cargo ship. In the last few months, they have been running right down the ledge in 100-120ft of water off of Palm Beach County. Last time I was there, a tournament was going on so the ledge was packed with hundreds on boats. So here comes this ship honking his horn and barreling thru people kite fishing and live baiting. Almost everyone had to move..
First, THT's membership is both widespread and numerous.
Second, most of you guys work straight day, M-F jobs.
Thrice, We have all read threads here on THT where a fellow member is either the do-er or the do-ee.
Ponit is we have all met the weekend warrior and sometimes he is us!
Consideration comes with a sliding scale, I have noticed it is measured both going and a commin, not always in equal measures. Common courtesy is usually the first thing that goes.
bumpers displayed like that are called Canadian flags
And uneducated people call fenders "bumpers."
*edit* gotta love these boat snob threads, I guess every single one here was a perfect non yahoo boater. The guy left his fender out?!?!?!?!?! OMG, he is the biggest yahoo in the world.
Clorox looking boats??? Sounds like someone is jealous.
Maybe instead of being a scredy cat and writing in a blog, help the people out who are making mistakes, it might make it safer for all of us.
Weekend Warriors Are Out There ! 
