BP's are community property once they are in the lake. Only time I say anything to someone that is fishing a BP I built/sank is when they are anchoring on it by dropping their anchor straight down. Then pull/tug it up out of the brush because it didn't hold and throw it out again. When I do say something I try to be tactful about it and let them know their anchor would not get stuck if they were to learn how to use that thing on the front of the boat called a trolling motor. Also let them know that once they disturb that BP the fish are gonna leave. Watched one of my piles most likely get destroyed this morning that way. It is still unacceptable for a guide to act in the manner that you said this one did.

It's a shame, and really childish that people have this concept of ownership around fishing spots. The idea of "my spot", or "my honey hole", is flat wrong on any public body of water. I don't care who you are, guide or 'joe fisherman'. People need to 'grow up, play nice, and share their toys', instead of acting like 8 year olds.

Mutual respect and open, polite communication goes a long way.

Scott

Maybe she was Potlicking?

That sure seems common place nowadays, why find your own fish when you can let someone else do all the hard work.

Sad. This thread could be her best anti-advertisement. No call for unprofessional behavior.

Yee yee!

That just baffles me. I came up on some guys swimming in the pool I wanted to fish on the Lampasas River last night. One guy said sorry, and I told him don't be because there are plenty of pools to fish from. It's not like that one brush pile holds every crappie on the lake.

Going to catch a lot of flack over this, but once a brush pile is in a public body of water, it no longer belongs specifically to anyone. If you want the brush pile you built to be yours and yours only, then it needs to be built in a private body of water. I have built multiple brush piles in different lakes. I have seen others fishing them and know when they have been fished, not one damn thing I can do about it.

Does anyone know if she actually built that pile? If she did, too bad. If she didn't, then too bad. I can promise you she would only do that once to me. . .

I don't know ... anyone can have a bad day, I would go talk to her or book a trip and see how she is. I think we need to spend most of our time building people up. If I had a dollar for every stare or look I have received over the years, well I would be fishing not working right now. I just think well they are not having a great day, I hope it gets better.

Take care and tight lines.

Ok, wait a minute. It doesn't matter if she built the pile, and showed you were it was. Just because a guide fishes a spot/put brush in there doesn't mean they own it. If she is that poor of a guide that every spot you are fishing is the only ones she can get fish on, she should find a new profession. Now, with that being said. I'm not going to rob a guides spot the day after they show me where it is. If I come back to the lake a month later and can locate it, to hell with em though. Its a public lake and I have every right to fish it as well. She better never get caught fishing someone else's piles either with that kind of attitude either. I'd start bringing a camera and filming the circling activity since that is illegal.

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Why just a brush pile, could have just as easily been a tree, point, stump, bridge pilling #7.....no one owns anything on public water. I learned long ago, if you put brush in the lake expect someone to find it. Now with all the side scan tech. etc. makes it easy. Not a professional stunt IMO,

I only have good things to say about Terri Moon,I promise you that Terri knows her way around the lake very,very well.Terri has forgot'en more good holes than most of us will ever know.Anyone can have a bad day,however I have never seen Terri lose her composer in the 28 years I have been guiding.And that's all I have to say about that.

Tony, I don't know you personally, but know many people that do. And while you have nothing to say but good things about Terri, if she did in fact act this way toward this guy fishing where he was, that's completely unacceptable. I don't care who you are or what everyone thinks about you that knows you. No one ever questioned how well she knows the lake, I've heard that she is an excellent crappie guide on Fork. But this kind of behavior is not very professional.

I've had run ins with guides on so many different lakes it's not even funny. For some reason, "some guides" think they own certain spots on lakes. This has been going on since the early 70's when I was fishing on Toledo Bend. But I'm sorry, it's a public body of water, no one "owns" any part of it.

This has nothing to do with a bad day. She has done this to me at least 5 times at different locations. This is the only time she has tried to knock me out of the boat but I have been circled like hungry shark many times. The good thing is she must be good luck because several times while being circled I have set the hook on a nice fish while she was there!