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Marking the spot. #12773387 05/29/18 09:26 PM
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Twice yesterday morning I was fishing a couple different humps and had the same guy come off pad and idle completely around me and I could hear his GPS beeping as he marked the humps. While I was fishing!
Come on men, if you are going to do that at least do a simple drive by and turn off the sound on the unit.
We still know you are potlicking the spot but at least try to fake it.

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Musta been on Fork.


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Re: Marking the spot. [Re: 9094] #12773412 05/29/18 09:55 PM
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Re: Marking the spot. [Re: 9094] #12773438 05/29/18 10:28 PM
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I dont worry about people like that. Not like they can read a map for themselves anyway

Re: Marking the spot. [Re: 9094] #12773439 05/29/18 10:28 PM
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*BEEP*

"Don't mind me! *BEEP* I'm just *BEEP* checking a *BEEP* text *BEEP* from my wife *BEEP. She *BEEP* wants to know *BEEP* when I'll be home *BEEP*. Anyway *BEEP*, gotta go *BEEP*. Hope you're *BEEP* having good luck *BEEP* catching em *BEEP* today *BEEP*."

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Re: Marking the spot. [Re: 9094] #12773452 05/29/18 10:42 PM
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It is SAD that some people fish that way, because they do not know how to find anything on their own. They should go hire a guide to learn the lake or spend more time of it themselves. There are all kinds of people out there and I try not to get riled up about the silly goofy ones. LOL. I laugh at them as they pass, because that makes them made, but such is life. Takes all kinds to make it go round. Tight lines, keep safe and good luck.

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I know I'll probably get blasted here, but it seems some put way too much stress in your fishing. I know, I don't fish for a living, I just fish to live.

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Originally Posted By: GIG'EM AGGIES
Musta been on Fork.


I Crappie fish with my wife, and have bass guides drive by, wave, all while adjusting their fishfinders.
no big deal.. fish

Re: Marking the spot. [Re: 9094] #12773482 05/29/18 11:10 PM
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No shame anymore and people just dont care to find fish. Much easier to see a guy catch a fish and hit a waypoint. I had a few choice words with a couple guys last week on granbury. I knew better than to stop on this spot with them close but against my better judgment did. I can get mad or I can get over it. I said my peace and moved on.

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Honestly......what's the big deal? If they can't find spots in their own, certainly they can't catch fish either.

On the positive .....at least they just marked it a left.

I think you are getting bent out of shape for nothing.

You know that they can mark a waypoint from across the lake, right? Move the cursor to where you sitting and press a button. It's the new age. Get used to it.


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Originally Posted By: JIM SR.
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Musta been on Fork.


I Crappie fish with my wife, and have bass guides drive by, wave, all while adjusting their fishfinders.
no big deal.. fish


Right, I camped on a brush pile heading up into Birch long enough to have bass boats enter and leave. A lot seemed very interested in what I was doing and why I was in the same spot when they left. Why is it that if you have a nice boat, poles and all, people think you know what your doing? I never noticed that in my tin boat.

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Had a guy do the same thing to me this weekend on a deep rock pile.

The whole mentality of I have one day a week to fish and I just want to go catch them not look for them ticks me off. I wouldnt call It bent out of shape over nothing, it took a lot of time to find thatpile.... go find another one.

It produces about one month a year as it is. Dont need more window lickers around it when they are eating my secret bait.

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The person didn't happen to have a you tube channel did They?

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Originally Posted By: WAWI
The person didn't happen to have a you tube channel did They?


Haha. Has your spot produced some 8 pounders recently?


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Re: Marking the spot. [Re: SteezMacQueen] #12773586 05/30/18 12:59 AM
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I can't imagine where this world would be if people did not borrow, steal, or use ideas of others. If you ever see me in the middle of the lake don't mark the spot, I am probably just peeing, lol. How do you put that beeper on silent in case i want to try that tactic ? Just funning man. grin


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Originally Posted By: SteezMacQueen
Honestly......what's the big deal? If they can't find spots in their own, certainly they can't catch fish either.

On the positive .....at least they just marked it a left.

I think you are getting bent out of shape for nothing.

You know that they can mark a waypoint from across the lake, right? Move the cursor to where you sitting and press a button. It's the new age. Get used to it.


On this particular lake it has happens to me many times. Im not bent out of shape as much as amazed at the gall of people. And believe it or not there are a lot of people that that can catch fish if someone else can put them on them. They are just too lazy to read a map.
That said just buy a good map chip like lakemaster and they spell out exactly what is there.
Yes I know exactly how to mark a waypoint from a long distance but my point was that these people get 50 foot from you and drive in a circle. It is really no different than the guy that thinks its ok to move in 50 yards ahead of you even if it is obvious you are fishing that direction.

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Happened to me twice on Fork this weekend on stuff that is very obvious on Navionics. Very strange

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I typically dont fish structure spots I have found when boat traffic is high-on weekends or holidays for this very reason. However, I fished a lake yesterday and was on a certain pattern fishing brush piles. Most of these are community holes with gps on the maps. One of my prized secret spots I found years ago isnt too far from a brush pile. Sure enough, I pulled up on a brush pile and there was a boat fishing the spot I found years ago. So much for that secret. I had never seen a boat fishing that spot in 15 years....Even guides who fish the lake....Between technology, map reading, bent pile drive by, who knows...secrets on lakes nowadays dont last. what happened to you is frustrating, no question. Time to find some more spots, on a weekday no less.. That is my plan..

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The person didn't happen to have a you tube channel did They?


Haha. Has your spot produced some 8 pounders recently?


Lol, we have our own heathen over here on this side of town. He is a massive scavenger. I think we all know who I'm talking about

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If they aren't trying to move in and fish it beside you, who cares? I can assure you that your secret spot isn't a secret on a public lake. I make a mental note of where I see boats fishing while I am out. If I saw them catching then I would probably drive by there when no one is there and see what type of structure was there and log that away in memory when I come across it somewhere else on the lake.

Heck Steez gave me info on my home lake where to catch big fish. I've been on the lake for a few years and didn't know it existed. I still haven't bothered driving over there to check it out. I see people sitting on the spot all the time. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know it is a good spot.

Too many people get their feathers ruffled trying to protect something that isn't even theirs to begin with.

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There are very few secrets today.......... electronics, YouTube, friends, guides......get over it. There are plenty of fish for everyone.

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Originally Posted By: WAWI
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The person didn't happen to have a you tube channel did They?


Haha. Has your spot produced some 8 pounders recently?


Lol, we have our own heathen over here on this side of town. He is a massive scavenger. I think we all know who I'm talking about


Does he fish for LUNKERS?


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Its annoying if nothing else. I throw out a bogus marker buoy sometimes just to mess with people but I dont always feel like taking the time to throw it out and go get it back. But if this stuff isnt a problem then why do all these guides blur out the background on pictures? They probably deal with this [censored] on a level most of us could never understand.


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I find it intriguing that many people assume that the person(s) are not doing their homework, he didnt stop and fish. Maybe they have done their homework, found the offshore spots on their maps and were coming to explore. Saw someone fishing so instead of coming right in and joining, ran around the outside looking at how the fish were stacked and moved on?

It is not something I would do, but I have dropped off plan when I was headed for a spot and saw someone on it to scroll my map looking for the next feature along the creek channel, in the general area, or in a similar location somewhere else.

I admit I am still trying to get confidence finding bait/fish before fishing an area. I have to stick to the higher probability targets. Therefore, I assume people coming in on me knew the spot was there before they idled around scanning. Maybe, just maybe this person already knew about the spot and wasnt obvious in his pot-licking, just scanning and moving on.


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Of all the things that happens on lakes these days, that is one I just laugh at and not worry about. Heck, I've gone back and looked at and in some cases marked many spots I saw someone else fishing over the years....I just do it after they have gone. smile


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This used to drive me crazy and still irritates from from time to time. The thing that finally settled me down was realizing that there ain't no way those guys are going to catch a bass that the good Lord intends for me to catch.

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Why do some people think they are the ONLY ones that can find a spot & when they DO, want to whine about someone 50' away marking something. At least he was idling. Do they THINK only THEIR chart/map shows there's a hump, channel bend etc? Geez... Everyone spends big $$$ nowadays to buy good graphs to USE. Just because they are marking something & YOU happen to be sitting on a spot DOES NOT make them a pot licker, bent pole pattern fisherman. Get over yourself & enjoy your time that you DO get to be on the water. By some of yalls standards,, EVERYONE else would need to turn off their graphs when within 250' of you & never look towards you without being called a potlicker. How bout this? A man has fished a spot for years. He gets a New graph & Autochart card . He is running around marking his own waypoints on his new graph. You HAPPEN to be working the spot. He idled by marking a breakline, but he's thinking," THAT Dude is fishing my spot I've fished for years. I'll be courteous & just mark my break line or begin a new map using my new Autochart feature . Maybe I'll come back later to pinpoint MY old rock pile". Maybe he's thinking you saw HIM fishing it one day & YOU are the Pot Licker.
Believe me, when I go to a lake I don't get to go to often, I'm GOING to use my high $ graphs to mark as many spots on my mapping, which obviously shows humps, bends, funnel points,etc etc. so I CAN come back & check them out when someone else isn't using it. That's the way it's SUPPOSED to work. I'm not potlicking,bentpoling, or whatever you want to call it. I'm doing EXACTLY what you guys are wanting. Hunting, mapping, finding structure. No one can "claim" a certain spot as their own, because its
1. Public
2. Available for EVERYONE to find with a graph
3. Its stupid to even THINK you're the ONLY person that's ever found it.
I CAN find & locate structure/fish on my own. I have for years.That's WHY I bought my equipment too.
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Thank you for following up my mild version of this with your comment! Now theyll flame you instead of me... roflmao

Just kidding. I know how you feel, and I wholeheartedly agree.


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How do you know they weren't just changing screens? My Lowrance doesn't beep when I drop waypoints, but does when I change screens out.

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Originally Posted By: Bobby Milam
If they aren't trying to move in and fish it beside you, who cares? I can assure you that your secret spot isn't a secret on a public lake. I make a mental note of where I see boats fishing while I am out. If I saw them catching then I would probably drive by there when no one is there and see what type of structure was there and log that away in memory when I come across it somewhere else on the lake.

Heck Steez gave me info on my home lake where to catch big fish. I've been on the lake for a few years and didn't know it existed. I still haven't bothered driving over there to check it out. I see people sitting on the spot all the time. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know it is a good spot.

Too many people get their feathers ruffled trying to protect something that isn't even theirs to begin with.


But they think they are the ONLY ones that ever found it. HOW did THEY find it?? By using a graph & maps possibly? The same way ANYONE else is using their graphs & maps for. They want to throw accusations, claim a spot on public water as their own, REALLY??? Maybe no more graphs & mapping charts & cards should be sold because , heaven forbid, someone may ACTUALLY use it the same way THEY themselves did. Rotflmbo


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I do NOT care what others think OR are doing when I'm on the water at the same time. It may distract me from MY enjoyment & use of the hard earned high $$& graphs I bought. Actually I think it takes a VAIN type person that THINKS everyone else is potlicking off HIM & no one else is capable of performing OR achieving the great,unique talent, that ONLY HE possesses!!! MY opinion is they're conceited, arrogant & think of themselves as superior to everyone else & should have exclusive control over other fishermen. Hahahaha...Yes Margaret, there are people like that in the bass fishing world like that & we HAVE to share the PUBLIC resource with them too. I just hope little Timmy doesn't get all btthrY, take his widdle toys & go home sulking. Lord have mercy,he SHOULD be the ONLY one that's allowed on the lake when he goes!!

EVERY single fisherman HAS fished at LEAST one spot someone else showed or told them about at least once in their fishing. Period!!! It's a FACT. By that reason alone, anyone calling someone a potlicker is a hypocrite. We can wait to see who'll be the FIRST one to respond saying they've NEVER EVER done it & be truthful when saying it.,That's the bottom line truth & I Do NOT care whether anyone agrees OR disagrees with it. Its true.
I bought it, I'm using it to MY advantage & enjoyment to enhance my time on the water, ANY time I WANT. Not even gonna try to measure up to Their standards. That ain't me.

Yes, I'm bored today so I'm stirring tha pot. Not lickin it, just stirring. But its true also.


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Originally Posted By: David Burton
Thank you for following up my mild version of this with your comment! Now theyll flame you instead of me... roflmao

Just kidding. I know how you feel, and I wholeheartedly agree.


I'm laughing right alongside of you & prolly 80% of everyone reading this post. de roflmao popcorn stir pollo
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We won't mention the OTHER 20%.


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The 20% are most likely Pro staffers (look up You Tube Pro Staffer/Thank you WAWI, that was hilarious) & under strict public media guidelines from their full ride sponsorship companies that provide everything AND pay a very lucrative salary because of their expertise in fishing. A rebuttal may cause loss of customers so they'll prolly not comment.
We ARE still waiting for the FIRST reply disputing the challenge presented earlier.
Too funny.

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Maybe its just me but when I'm standing on the front of the boat marking a spot and my line start swimming away should I set the hook and clean up later?

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Originally Posted By: steven gillock
Maybe its just me but when I'm standing on the front of the boat marking a spot and my line start swimming away should I set the hook and clean up later?


Set tha hook. Just make sure If you save spot as a waypoint to make SURE it's NEVER been found before, or risk being called a potlicker/bent pole pattern fisherman if someone else is there when you return. They just know you're going to clean out every bass there & THEIR spot is & forever more will be ruined by YOU, the potlicker.

Heck yeah , set the hook, mark it, return to it, win tournaments off of it, catch a 30# bag off of it, YOU bought & paid for your graph, boat, tackle, licenses, fuel, etc etc.
I will be the FIRST to say good job, congratulations on a lunker, way to use your graph, glad you ENJOYED the benefits of your well earned time on the water!!!!! I hope it only produces for you too. That'll learn em, durn em!!!


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The 20% are most likely Pro staffers (look up You Tube Pro Staffer/Thank you WAWI, that was hilarious) & under strict public media guidelines from their full ride sponsorship companies that provide everything AND pay a very lucrative salary because of their expertise in fishing. A rebuttal may cause loss of customers so they'll prolly not comment.
We ARE still waiting for the FIRST reply disputing the challenge presented earlier.
Too funny.


Ive seen this somewhere before...

Re: Marking the spot. [Re: steven gillock] #12774394 05/30/18 07:47 PM
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Maybe its just me but when I'm standing on the front of the boat marking a spot and my line start swimming away should I set the hook and clean up later?


I see what you did there. thumb


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Thanks Happy there for a moment thought I was getting in trouble for marking my territory the old fashion way smile

Re: Marking the spot. [Re: Curtbass] #12774565 05/30/18 09:55 PM
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Originally Posted By: Bobby Milam
If they aren't trying to move in and fish it beside you, who cares? I can assure you that your secret spot isn't a secret on a public lake. I make a mental note of where I see boats fishing while I am out. If I saw them catching then I would probably drive by there when no one is there and see what type of structure was there and log that away in memory when I come across it somewhere else on the lake.

Heck Steez gave me info on my home lake where to catch big fish. I've been on the lake for a few years and didn't know it existed. I still haven't bothered driving over there to check it out. I see people sitting on the spot all the time. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know it is a good spot.

Too many people get their feathers ruffled trying to protect something that isn't even theirs to begin with.


But they think they are the ONLY ones that ever found it. HOW did THEY find it?? By using a graph & maps possibly? The same way ANYONE else is using their graphs & maps for. They want to throw accusations, claim a spot on public water as their own, REALLY??? Maybe no more graphs & mapping charts & cards should be sold because , heaven forbid, someone may ACTUALLY use it the same way THEY themselves did. Rotflmbo


I wasnt claiming sh/t in my post about the spots I was on being my private spot.I was talking about the oblivious actions of other people. Yes they can read a map and find the spots but why do that just watch for the bent rod? With the map software out anyone with a lick of sense can find a spot. Anyone can also go onto google earth and look at the history when the water was low. Then again why go to that trouble? But regardless of the rhetoric you are spilling a lot of these guys are stopping to mark the spot they see you on. I claimed no part of the lake was mine. But most likely I guess the people dissing my original post are the ones that do your homework like these other guys Im referring to. Just be running wide open and happen to shut it down in the middle of the lake next to someone fishing, go in a circle and take off. Sure your just changing screens roflmao

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Re: Marking the spot. [Re: 9094] #12774582 05/30/18 10:16 PM
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Catching fish is fun. If you see my rod bent over come on over by me and Ill tell you what to do and how to catch em.

Re: Marking the spot. [Re: Notaguide] #12774588 05/30/18 10:35 PM
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Catching fish is fun. If you see my rod bent over come on over by me and Ill tell you what to do and how to catch em.


So will I if you speak to me and not pull up and try to ignore me like you can see me there roflmao
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If anyone marks a spot that I am fishing they will probably be disappointed....


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I honestly don't care if they mark where I'm fishing. Or start using what I'm using. It makes me feel superior.

So....all you dudes, when you see me standing on the front of my black and white Skeeter with the red seats, please stop and watch me. Copy cat me. Mark my spots, etc. it makes me feel like a bad [censored].


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Similar to the original post, I have a serious question. I was fishing. With a friend and he told me that there are GPS units that can drive close by your boat and scan/save all of the waypoints from the unit on your boat. Anyone else heard of this? If so, how do you lock a 10-year old Hummnbird side scan?

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Similar to the original post, I have a serious question. I was fishing. With a friend and he told me that there are GPS units that can drive close by your boat and scan/save all of the waypoints from the unit on your boat. Anyone else heard of this? If so, how do you lock a 10-year old Hummnbird side scan?
fake news.....impossible. Now, post a picture on this forum from an iPhone and I can download the pic and get the GPS coordinates of where the pic was taken. Real deal truth.


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Re: Marking the spot. [Re: 9094] #12774962 05/31/18 03:05 AM
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I figured this was BS. We had a few cold beverages prior to this revelation coming out...

Re: Marking the spot. [Re: 9094] #12775062 05/31/18 05:49 AM
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Originally Posted By: Bobby Milam
If they aren't trying to move in and fish it beside you, who cares? I can assure you that your secret spot isn't a secret on a public lake. I make a mental note of where I see boats fishing while I am out. If I saw them catching then I would probably drive by there when no one is there and see what type of structure was there and log that away in memory when I come across it somewhere else on the lake.

Heck Steez gave me info on my home lake where to catch big fish. I've been on the lake for a few years and didn't know it existed. I still haven't bothered driving over there to check it out. I see people sitting on the spot all the time. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know it is a good spot.

Too many people get their feathers ruffled trying to protect something that isn't even theirs to begin with.


But they think they are the ONLY ones that ever found it. HOW did THEY find it?? By using a graph & maps possibly? The same way ANYONE else is using their graphs & maps for. They want to throw accusations, claim a spot on public water as their own, REALLY??? Maybe no more graphs & mapping charts & cards should be sold because , heaven forbid, someone may ACTUALLY use it the same way THEY themselves did. Rotflmbo


I wasnt claiming sh/t in my post about the spots I was on being my private spot.I was talking about the oblivious actions of other people. Yes they can read a map and find the spots but why do that just watch for the bent rod? With the map software out anyone with a lick of sense can find a spot. Anyone can also go onto google earth and look at the history when the water was low. Then again why go to that trouble? But regardless of the rhetoric you are spilling a lot of these guys are stopping to mark the spot they see you on. I claimed no part of the lake was mine. But most likely I guess the people dissing my original post are the ones that do your homework like these other guys Im referring to. Just be running wide open and happen to shut it down in the middle of the lake next to someone fishing, go in a circle and take off. Sure your just changing screens roflmao


You are taking what I said entirely wrong. Not dissing you personally at all. You HAVE a valid very logical point, but so do I. Yeah, some are obvious in doing things like that. (Running wide open, shut down & come circle you) . watch till you catch a fish & come over to you & do it. That ain't right or acceptable in ANYBODIES book.) Don't let it bother you. Enjoy your time on the water.
I won't do that kinda carp myself & wish no one else would either. If you're set up on a spot in an area I wanted to look at, I myself will wait to graph it out for my own mapping. But on a busy day IF a man waits till no one is in an area fishing, then hell' never get to do ANY looking, searching & mapping ,hunting his spots to fish in the future. Even 50' is too close in my book. Especially on smaller lakes. I'm poking fun at the ones who DO think like I was describing. That its their spot ONLY. Sometimes I'm to the point nowadays of thinking there's too many straws in the soda bottle. But we're STILL catching fish out there & THATS what it's all about . Technology has brought forth lots of good things, but why did courtesy, manners, & etiquette have to change? Its the arrogant rude attitudes of those that do claim" others only mark spots that someone is on" & call names potlicker, bent pole fishermen that I'm poking fun at. And that's ALL it is. Way too serious dude. It really don't matter. roflmao

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Re: Marking the spot. [Re: 9094] #12776033 06/01/18 01:05 AM
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Originally Posted By: Curtbass
Originally Posted By: Bobby Milam
If they aren't trying to move in and fish it beside you, who cares? I can assure you that your secret spot isn't a secret on a public lake. I make a mental note of where I see boats fishing while I am out. If I saw them catching then I would probably drive by there when no one is there and see what type of structure was there and log that away in memory when I come across it somewhere else on the lake.

Heck Steez gave me info on my home lake where to catch big fish. I've been on the lake for a few years and didn't know it existed. I still haven't bothered driving over there to check it out. I see people sitting on the spot all the time. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know it is a good spot.

Too many people get their feathers ruffled trying to protect something that isn't even theirs to begin with.


But they think they are the ONLY ones that ever found it. HOW did THEY find it?? By using a graph & maps possibly? The same way ANYONE else is using their graphs & maps for. They want to throw accusations, claim a spot on public water as their own, REALLY??? Maybe no more graphs & mapping charts & cards should be sold because , heaven forbid, someone may ACTUALLY use it the same way THEY themselves did. Rotflmbo


I wasnt claiming sh/t in my post about the spots I was on being my private spot.I was talking about the oblivious actions of other people. Yes they can read a map and find the spots but why do that just watch for the bent rod? With the map software out anyone with a lick of sense can find a spot. Anyone can also go onto google earth and look at the history when the water was low. Then again why go to that trouble? But regardless of the rhetoric you are spilling a lot of these guys are stopping to mark the spot they see you on. I claimed no part of the lake was mine. But most likely I guess the people dissing my original post are the ones that do your homework like these other guys Im referring to. Just be running wide open and happen to shut it down in the middle of the lake next to someone fishing, go in a circle and take off. Sure your just changing screens roflmao
If it is your home lake I would be potlicking your arse too, lol.


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