what bothers you the most when you out fishing [Archive]

jakeou812

02-15-2009, 12:05 PM

the first thing that comes to mind is when i moved from one spot to another only to realize that i forgot to pull my minnow bucket out of the water to make a long story short i did nt have any minnows when i arrived at my next spot it did nt bother me as much as it bothered my guests....LOL

alanexpup

02-15-2009, 01:03 PM

prov1900

02-15-2009, 01:26 PM

pooo

Pooo? Try to fish away from the sewage treatment plants. :D

brwhite

02-15-2009, 02:40 PM

HI. thats a good question. I dont think I have ever seen a fishermans ettiquet list of dos and donts. space is probably an important one, how far do you stay away. :frypan:Noise? My father used to want perfect silence but in my experience it does not seem to matter. In fact playing the radio seemed to help. my 2 cents.

I'll tell you one thing that bothers me... When a couple of guys motor right over your fishing line and cut it and you yell what the <<heck>> and they tell you it's the only place to catch fish on the lake.

This was 2 years ago in Webster Bay...

if thats the only place you can catch fish then you might want to consider something other than fishing...

tackleman

02-15-2009, 03:55 PM

running out of minnows when the fish are biting, I guess that's why I carry Gulp as a backup

Pooch

02-15-2009, 04:47 PM

Even in Canada, guys fishing etiquette is going downhill. We go there to be away from the crowds and when someone motors right over within jigging distance to you on a hundred thousand acre lake, good grief. There isn't anyplace in the lake that you can't catch fish for crying out loud!!

It speaks in general of the breakdown in civility within our society. A selfishness that carries over to our fishing. Nobody is that ignorant or are they?

I'll tell you what else bothers me when fishing. My wife picks out the most inappropriate spinner rigs, color, size whatever and proceeds to kick my fat butt all over the place then lays her pole down, says "what's so hard about that?" and goes back to reading her book..........

Pooch

joeman79

02-15-2009, 05:33 PM

What bothers me most about fishing in Canada. #1 Is having to wait a year or two to go again!!!!!!!!!!!! #2. When my selfish self doesn't catch the Biggest and Most Fish in Group!!!! LMAO And the only guys I pull in on is others in our group who are catching more than me. Not really!!

Glenman12

02-15-2009, 06:16 PM

Similar to yours, the one that gets me is this...when we are trolling a shoreline, and its obvious where we are heading, a few times we've had a boat pull in about 50 yards ahead of us, stop, and start jigging/casting...

phishfearme

02-15-2009, 08:14 PM

since we do the "rent your own lake for a week" type fly-in trips we don't have what seems to be the main gripe - other inconsiderate fishermen - but the wind can really screw up a fishing day. it can make trolling near impossible and holding a strategically placed anchor just doesn't work. being restricted to fishing the "lee" is very frustrating.

phish

cspierings

02-16-2009, 10:07 AM

Drunks who can barely stand up navigating by their GPS screen instead of looking outside the boat once in a while, at least spend some bucks on radar and a collision alarms.

People who aren't catching fish running right over the hole you are fishing when there are miles of water on the other side of the boat much deeper and safer to drive through. Happens at least once a trip not just in Canada but in Devils Lake ND too.

Musky interupting perfectly good walleye fishing.

Northern interupting perfectly good walleye fishing.

Smallmouth interupting perfectly good walleye fishing... actually I like that.

Bear interupting perfectly good walleye fishing.

Having to leave Canada to go back to the States away from the perfectly good walleye fishing.

Flip Silverlake

02-16-2009, 10:53 AM

Having a guy thinking that your marker was placed in the water for his use, in fact you can't even get close enough to your marker to retrieve it for fear of raming the idiot that pulled in where your fishing. The second thing is some idiot showing off in a wake boat pulling a whale behind him with in 25 feet of where your fishing. I know why Canada won't let us NON-CANADAINS bring firearms into the country becasue they know we'll us them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MN_Moose

02-16-2009, 02:34 PM

when a 32 ft cruiser pulls up (picture Rodney Dangerfield) on the reef we're fishing, 38 miles out in the middle of Lake Of The Woods, drops anchor right on top of my yellow marker. Gets out the jet skis trying to fish from them. I say wtf you stupid mf??? He says it's the only place on the lake that his anchor will hold. ?ya, well it won't hold at all when I cut the rope!

camp chef

02-16-2009, 03:06 PM

Nothing bothers me for very long when I am fshing. That's why I fish

VMS

02-16-2009, 04:45 PM

When I'm getting so many bites I have to put my rod down....

To slap, swat, shoo, and swear at those darn black flies that always seem to like the flavor of my ankles!!

Steve

Backwater Eddy

02-17-2009, 04:14 AM

Cell phones, Texting and BlackBerry addicts :cookoo:......too much Yada-Yada-Yada..Yada...........................Yada-YADA-YADA.....calls .

If I have no compelling reason to have my phone on, or the phones of anyone else in the boat...there OFF!!

SHUT UP AND FISH....EH!!!

:D

Dan G

02-17-2009, 05:41 AM

Binoculars in another boat bother me. Find your own **** fish! Or, following me as I head out to my favorite fishing spot....another good reason for my 200 Optimax....lol.

Obabikon

02-17-2009, 06:25 AM

When I'm guiding and we're casting. No matter how many times I tell him to reel all the way to the tip... all that line is begging for me to get hooked.

Lazy Fisherman

02-17-2009, 06:27 AM

Probably the flys going for my ankles.

jmor1717

02-17-2009, 09:44 AM

Well, this bothered me last year. On our annual trip to my buddy's cabin in Ontario, one of the guys decides to not bring the proper gear. So I offer my extra rod, reel, line, and lures. Then, right when I think I've caught the biggest walleye for the week, 25", he hooks into this monster!! A 34", 13lb walleye!! I think I was more jealous than mad. Maybe I should be a guide....

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c319/jmor17/Picture008.jpg

Moondog

02-17-2009, 10:47 AM

Obviously the boat that decides that they want to drift fish the same shoreline as I am but in FRONT of me. Other than stupid people..........the wind bothers me. Can't fish where I want to. Oh, and there is always the malfunctioning fish finder.........grrrrr..

guested

02-17-2009, 02:55 PM

hey mn moose i think i know the cruiser you speak of. you wouldnt happen to have been fishing that 23 or 24 ft'er south east of rope were ya?had the same thing happen to me while i was trolling that reef.the guy came from over 6 miles away and could clearly see me trolling back and forth the whole way there.and then pulls up right in the middle of the reef and dropped anchor and just offered a weak smile as an apology.ah well the fishing sucked on that spot that day anyways ,and i'm glad i didnt spend what he spent on gas to find that out.

bingo

02-17-2009, 03:11 PM

3 things:
Fear of running out of gas in the middle of no where.

Having motor problems at about dusk.

Fishing with my brother-in-law who just so happens to get snagged about once every two minutes and will not break off his line but have to go back and get it out!!!!!!!!!!

prov1900

02-17-2009, 04:06 PM

You and I must have the same brother in law. I had both of them with me once...once. Snagalicious and Sir Snags Alot.

jus surfing

02-17-2009, 06:38 PM

boat # 24

Hot Runr Guy

02-17-2009, 06:45 PM

You and I must have the same brother in law. I had both of them with me once...once. Snagalicious and Sir Snags Alot.
Add my brothers and I to that group! I believe that I have recovered the cost of my transom TM by the # of Rapalas we have retrieved from the shore, and branches overhead!:bangin:
HRG

bassface44

02-17-2009, 08:26 PM

I think my biggest pet peave on the water echos phish's but is a tad more general. For years we have fished lakes with camp boats, and continue to to this day. These boats have no sonar unless we bring it and no bow mount trolling motor.

My biggest problem is knowing how to fish a spot and being unable to do so due to weather and boat constraints.

I have been trying to focus more on what is possible but the mind will wonder

Pooch

02-18-2009, 10:22 AM

When we fished some of the drive in lakes we took along our own trolling motors. Decided that with a 9.9 or 15hp motor that it was unnecessary. Most small camp boats with smaller motors really back troll nice. The weakness is not having some kind of splash guards when moving into the wind.

I learned from others and through experience that fighting the wind will only frustrate you. After learning to use the wind and feel the boat in the wind, I now love to fish the wind. Then again we are mostly troller's and a good drift over a reef using the wind is a delight. Reading the wind and understanding how it is going to turn the boat are key.

Last fall I had the opportunity to fish with a new group using their boats with consoles. Really nice boats. It was tough if not impossible to back troll for the driver. They mostly anchored and jigged. Some drifting too. There were a couple days I would have loved to have had a tiller on that trip and worked the wind. They were good at working the wind at anchor and were top shelf jig fishermen.

Stay flexible and maximize the great maneuverability of those camp boats.

Pooch

Mike Kansas

02-18-2009, 01:19 PM

My wife is what bothers me. She has this knack of catching the Biggest Fish. She is a wonderful person and an awesome wife but for a couple weeks every year she turns into the B FROM H.

She not only catchs the Big Fish she Brags about it all year and always has a picture of it with her. I drive the boat , bait her hook, use the landing net for her fish, take her fish off the hook, take her picture of her and the fish, fix her shore lunch pretty much kiss her A. I hate it....just kidding dear

Mike Kansas

Larry Mac

02-18-2009, 02:37 PM

When fishing in the states it is Jet skiers, but I must say they put up a good fight when hooked. lol

Thank you,
Larry Mac

Moondog

02-18-2009, 03:45 PM

We also have a friend that we refer to as the "Unconscious Fisherman." He generally has no clue where to fish, what to use and ALWAYS uses old 35lb test bright orange mono with a 2 pound jig. He reels before he sets the hook. He has a great boat but throws it in the hole so hard he tosses his wife and anyone else back into the motor well or outa the boat. He uses the trolling motor backwards on the highest setting and is often seen running in circles. The b#stard always catches the biggest fish.

geez.

2Labs

02-18-2009, 06:15 PM

Well, all my peeves have been mentioned. Except one ... and this one is just frustrating as heck because there is nothing I can do about it.

FREAKING HIGH WINDS!!!!!!!!!

Not the 10 or 15 or even 20 mph wind. But wind so bad I can't keep my 80# 60-inch trolling motor in the water -- 25, 30, 35 mph winds. Last year the wind was so bad for our July LOW trip I bent the latch pin on the 80# motor as the prop would cavitate and then dig, cavitate, and dig. Very tight sine curve on those waves! Incredible strain on that MinnKota! Usually I can cope by using that big TM or firing up the kicker ... but not last year. With the kicker we just got the snot beat out of us ramming waves. And that was nearly every day of that 2-week trip. GRRRRRRRRRRR!

I finally gave in and started looking for fish in sheltered spots. First time I have ever done that in 27 trips.

Babamel2

02-19-2009, 10:42 AM

Kansas Mike, your wife must be related to mine. The first time she went with me to canada she caught the biggest small mouth and Pike. She will never let me hear the end of it. Oh, what the heck, Im so happy she enjoys coming along. sure makes it easier to justify fishing expenses

Catcrazy3

02-19-2009, 11:42 AM

My biggest irritant is at the landings: people who can't wait their turn to get in/out of the water when other are also waiting OR the idiots at the double landings that pull into the middle so no one else can land/launch:banghead:

lund rebel

02-19-2009, 12:35 PM

when you been waiting in line to launch the boat and the guy in front of you backs in to the waters edge, then starts to uncover his boat and unloads a bunch of junk out of the truck and unties his boat, WASTING ANOTHER 15 MINUTES!!! WHEN HE COULD HAVE DONE ALL THIS WHILE HE WAS IN LINE, LIKE THE REST OF US DID !!!! But I just took a deep breath and kept telling my self I WELL BE FISHING SOON LIFE WELL BE GOOD. :banghead:

Mike Kansas

02-19-2009, 02:51 PM

way2goofy

02-22-2009, 10:28 AM

Wind bothers me the most. I'd rather fish in the rain than have a strong wind to fight while fishing. Many times you can go to a sheltered bay but if you are trying to hold on a reef in open water it's tough.

Limiterr

02-22-2009, 11:26 AM

I don't like jet skiers that buzz boats and cottages. I had the experience a few years back at our cottage in NW Ontario. I had to pur up with a pair of them buzzing our dock and being PITA. Finally peace and quiet. We went fishing a little later and I found them miles up our lake out of fuel. I could not leave them for the wolves and bears to get so I towed them back. I did not even get so much as a thank you. They were from the city with a pair of rented machines.

When fishing in the states it is Jet skiers, but I must say they put up a good fight when hooked. lol

Thank you,
Larry Mac

Bigfishhunter

02-23-2009, 07:15 AM

You are way too nice a guy Limitter. I would have made them sit right beside me in the boat all the way back and given them an earful all the way home. If they would not have said a thank you - ooh boy I don't know how I would react, I am sure I could hold back on the violence but I am sure they would learn their lesson that is for sure.

Like my uncle always used to say - too bad we couldn't carry the .357 - three below the water line sure doesn't let them get very far.

Fishin Fun

02-23-2009, 07:28 PM

What irritates me is the fact that it takes 12 hours of driving to get to my fishing spot and I can't stand to wait that long! Otherwise fishing in a cold rain I hate.

wolverine fan

02-24-2009, 09:57 AM

What really gets me is when you slowly, quietly, stealthily motor into the most awesome spot and....your first cast misses by 12 feet!! or the lure gets hung up on the tiniest little branch overlooking that perfect spot if it would just fall.............nope-wraps around the finger sized branch and come to find out the branch is stronger than schwartzenegger!! pull till you know it has to come loose or break and thats about the time it zings right at you and your partners (who were not paying attention ) and the trebles now look like the anchor racing towards you!! the last one has to be when you have a great spot to throw to and that little piece of weed will not come off the lure..and you are sure you'll never catch a fish if its stayson there but you are not gonna bring it up to your hands until youve done all you can by slapping it on the surface, jiggging rod tip up and down a zillion times, faster and faster, swear at the lure, jerk it quickly thru the water wondering if this happens to anyone else but you!! HAHA those are some of the things that bother me!!

dfghtrs43

02-24-2009, 07:43 PM

1) Hooks in the anchor rope.
2) Forgeting pliers.
3) Stepping on a rod eye.
4) Spilling the spinner rig beads.
5) Backlash.
6) forgeting my hat.
7) dead batteries.
8) unhooking my boat on a roller trailer before going down the ramp! Boom!
9) Finding bait in the live well from last week.
10) No rain gear!

goldman

02-24-2009, 09:57 PM

One of many things comes to mind, that is my wife wanting to put her rod down, I say put it in the rod holder, no, she puts it down against the side of the boat, and wham! gets a hit on it, and it breaks the rod tip right off!
(insert expletive here).

Another one. A couple of years ago, my wife and I were enjoying a leisurly Sunday, casting for some Bass. She throws up into shore, and her lure goes right into a tree. So, ok, I motor up there, put her right where she can get her lure out of the tree, and a snake falls out of the tree, right behind her shoulder into the bottom of the boat. (a copper head). I say "hunny, just turn around real easy like and sit down in the seat, and go ahead and get your lure, and then we'll see about losing this snake. Well, she starts looking at the water like she might like that better, but decides against jumping in. She got her lure out and we went back to the dock, there was a guy there with some of those long handle hook remover pliers, he reached in and grabbed the snake and threw it out into the water. The next Sunday we saw those same guys and they wanted to know if we had any copper heads in our boat today.

Sorry for the extra long post. Looking back, it seems kinda comical now.

Goldman

Pooch

02-25-2009, 11:05 AM

Scott,

My wife is absolutely terrified of snakes. It doesn't matter if they are alive or long dead, she just comes unglued. About ten years ago on a fly in the plane drops us off at the dock and there on the dock is the biggest d*** black snake I've ever seen. She didn't see it until we were unloaded when it made a run for the water. If the snake hadn't been in the water I think she would have made a dive to catch up with the float plane.

Had my wife been in your boat with a snake she would have exited the boat no matter that she can't swim a lick.

Good story.

Pooch

Jahloaf

02-25-2009, 03:46 PM

running out of beer
running out of bait
ice melts

lightning storm interrupts the bite

Captain Ron

03-02-2009, 03:23 PM

the thing that bothers me the most is not when i'm fishing. it's when i'm at a the camp and somebody comes in with a trophy fish. like a 40 inch pike or a 30 inch walleye and cuts it up. take a picture and put it back:stick:

AllenW

03-03-2009, 12:14 PM

Been there, done that to most of what's posted, wife caught a 27# Musky while crappie fishing, I was musky fishing and got to watch her catch that on 4# test crappie rig....grrrrrrrr

I have admitted defeat, I now pick out half of the tackle I think will catch fish and let her pick the rest....you know which catches the most fish...

Got towed in with the new boat, dead battery, two days later found out you can pull start the T-8 kicker motor.
That was in the manual that I just glanced at.

Had a buddy who in Canada would let out about 50 yards of line and drag the jig across the bottom.....for about 8 foot, then it'd snag.
I finally had to threaten him with violence before he finally went to vertical jigging and keeping the jig just off the bottom.:D
He had finally run out of jigs and the fact I wasn't gonna give him anymore may have helped too.

Even worse than leaving the minnow bucket overboard is leaving the stringer out and finding it empty when ya finally stopped, thank goodness for live wells nowdays.

And there was leaving Mpls and getting 150 miles up the road and stopping for breakfast and finding you left your wallet home, then trying to get the wife to meet ya half way....she did btw but I'm still paying for that one..
On the water, I'd agree with those who don't like high winds, wife and I were on milacs once during a storm and they had winds of about 45mph, nothing I'd fish in, much less wanna be on the water with.

The list goes on..:D

Al

Lovetofish

03-03-2009, 02:40 PM

Larry Mac

03-03-2009, 03:27 PM

What bothers me most is knowing that on my last boat ride back to camp on the last day of my week in Canada I have to load up the boat for home. I hate that part. The second to the last day I go into depression just thinking about it.

Hello Lovetofish, I can identify with your post. There is an old saying I use to help me with that it goes something like this

"Do not be sad because it has ended, Be happy because it has happened"

Thank you,
Larry Mac

oldntired

03-03-2009, 10:08 PM

People that eat popcorn or chips in my boat and make a mess of the carpet, that bothers me. However, one day I was setting out some planer boards off the back of the boat and my 100 pound yellow lab came running back and was trying to jump off the back of the boat (something he has never done) just when I asked him what the heck he was thinking I got a whiff of something that would curl your nose hairs. I turned around and there on the bow deck was a dog rocket. (hes never done that before either) I calmly told the dog that it was o.k. (I quess I should have paid more attention but hey, Im fishing) and since I dont keep a flat shovel in the boat I used the cover of my lowrance unit to scoop away the unmentionable items.
Later the boat got a good pressure washing and total detail so I would be ready for the popcorn and chips that no longer bother me on the floor of my boat, Ill take them any day.

Bill Krejca

03-04-2009, 07:40 AM

When I'm in God's Country, hardly anything bothers me; that's why I go there. If the fishing is good, that is just an extra bonus.

If I could think of anything that maybe annoys me while fishing, maybe it would be steering the boat back to get someone unsnagged, and they get off 1/2 way back, but think I am watching them like a hawk and don't think to let me know they are free. Along the same "line", maybe, it would be a boat mate using other than a visible line, so I have no idea where the heck the snag is.

It's still better than a good day anywhere else,

Bill Krejca

Pooch

03-04-2009, 08:16 PM

Bill,

Good attitude. Did you learn that from those early trips? I've told my wife that if we can design our own version of eternity a lake in Canada with only her would be mine.

The friend I mentioned a year ago who's early adventures with his dad almost paralleled yours stopped by today and showed me two old Kodachrome slides of him holding his first northern on a dock somewhere near Red Lake, ON when the only way there was gravel. Too bad the old Kodachrome had lost most detail and also turned blue. We scanned it and brought back a small percent of the detail and recovered some of the color for him. better than what he started with. He really appreciated the signed copy of your book I got for him. Thanks again for the good read.

Good luck this summer. If you ever decide to try Savant let me know and I'll show you some of my sweet spots! We will be making two trips again this year. First trip will be with my wife. Second trip will be with four guys and six others from our other group at the same time. Group was getting too big and evolved into two groups. Logistics are much easier. My foursome will be there for two weeks the others just a week.

O'Sullivan again?

Pooch

Bill Krejca

03-05-2009, 07:43 AM

Hey, Pooch,

Yeah, back to O'Sullivan in July. Taking my son, 2 sons-in-law, friends. Expecting another great walleye trip.

I've started my second book, on MY fishing trip experiences from around 1940's on, mostly about the LOW area.

Once the north woods gets in your blood, like malaria, maybe?, it never leaves:)

Bill Krejca