MyFishFinder.com Just like iceshanty but warmer
remember when 30 guys could set up in an area and have a bunch of laughs? seems those days are gone.
Couple days ago I got into it with another fisherman on the ice. Here is the story.I pull up to a spot I fish when I am pressed for time. Last year I pretty much had this area to myself. I hammered the fish all winter long. Kept it to myself as much as possible. Unfortunately word got out this small little area had perch, crappies and gills just stacked up in their. It is super easy access.I drop my grandson off at school and I head to the spot. When I get there the main spot I fish two guys had tip ups strewn all over the area so I look at plan B. Another shack set up., Third spot occupied. So plan D. As I am loading my sled some dipcrap gets out of his minivan with another guy and a small child. He shouts out loud "HONEY HOLE". I just laugh, gigs up my spot is ruined the idiots found it. So I drag my sled to spot D. It is a nice overcast day, light wind 31 degrees. So I am going to sit outside and not in the shack. I drill three holes because I can have three lines and I spread them out 15 feet about between them Soaking two minnows and jigging with the third. I am not taking up that much area, this is a large flat that the fish roam so it is ok fishing all over. This is quite a story that such morons are allowed to participate in such a tranquil sport and try and make it hard on people. Where has common courtesy gone. This kind of thing just ruins it for those that just want to have a little fun. You know guys can work together and figure out what's working and it's a better experience that way. Why do people want to sit right on top you and make all kinds of racket. You did the right thing. As I get my first dead stick placed the honey hole guy comes over and drills a hole right next to me. Less than four feet from my second dead stick hole. I kindly let him know that he drilled a hole pretty close and I was fishing that hole. He laughs and says, I;m gonna be like those internet guys and tell you you don't own the water. I said your right.........you can fish there if you want but so am I and I am not moving. ( I have been bullied out of my spots too many times over the last few years by guys that decide if they make it hard for you to fish you will leave, so now I refuse to move). I give people plenty of space and I avoid fishing most weekends to avoid assholes.....this was a Wednesday. So the guy says to me you have a hole there, there and there but I can't fish here? I said, I do not care where you fish. I am just telling you I am not leaving. He starts getting even dumber. He starts puffing his chest and talking stupid so I just say your a real tough guy huh! I said it's pretty crapty for you to crawl up my ass like this. He then shouts, relax dude, it's just perch and crappies! I said exactly, its just perch and crappies so why are you crawling up my ass. I can tell his buddy wants no part of this as he never once lifts his head or says anything. As I am setting up my line I just said out loud, I can not believe you are gonna fish right on top of me. His buddy finally just pulled his ducer and started walking away and the dipcrap followed.I watched as he avoided all the other fishermen and gave them a wide berth. If the guy would have just said, hey you mind if we fish next to you? I would have said sure, I have a hole right there, maybe give me about ten feet so we don't tangle lines that would be great. Just be courteous. Another fisherman walked over after and said I agree with everything you said. He walked over to see where he drilled his hole and shook his head and asked if he wanted to jump in the shack with you too?Was I wrong? What is proper etiquette in this situation? For the record I didn't even catch a fish out of that hole. The spot has been over fished and I didn't catch a fish over 7" that entire day. I drive past on the weekend and there is 30 guys there fishing it now. I get off the ice and an old guy pulls up, hows the fishing? I say it sucks. Oh really he says, I sat down here on my lawn chair all summer, I was catching perch and crappies. I ate so many my wife and I got sick from eating them. He leaves and another guy from out of town pulls up. I heard they are nailing perch and crappies in here. Guys were nailing them all fall. My FIL told me about it and says he fishes here all the time.Less than one season the parasites fished the area dry.
IMO you weren’t wrong , the guy was just another (Richard Cranium) , plus he’s teaching a child bad habits , crappy role model
x2 RC’s are everywhere. Dipcrap wouldn’t of stood a chance here with us if he pulled that crap!! End of story!!
Your 100% right! I had the same thing a few years back. But it was a old guy about 70 yrs old and I said to myself it's not worth say anything to him so I let him go. But in the past it happened to me so what I did is fire up the jiffy and put a hole inches from him, ice chips flying all over him! He is yelling and screaming! He left right after I drilled the hole!!
You muricans seem to go apecrap over "your" spots. What he did was just being an idiotic googan, sure glad I've never had to deal with that kind of crap on ice up here. As stupid as some newbies here may be, they seem to stick to open water, have never run into an ice googan in over 20 years of ice fishing.
It's fairly common down here. A few years back I was the ONLY one out on a pond. Been fishing maybe an hour and heard someone else rustling around... rustling stopped really close. Reeeeally close.I got out of the fish house, and some dbag was popping his hub up right against mine... like literally touching it. We had some words, and his sawed off runt azz moved.
Speaking of entitled people: I allowed a guy to ice fish my private ponds two years in a row. The third year I wanted to give the pond a break and he came unglued! It was like I owed him to fish the pond!
maybe he was winning money somewhere with your trophy raised fish? lol