Any of you guys are more than welcome to fish around my dock.
I never have time to fish anyway.

i'll just watch from my window....lol.. good luck catching them!

Wasnt there a big threat not to long ago in a BASS tourny? I forgot who and where it was, but someone shot at one of the guys fishing a dock. Makes you think twice about some of these people.

If the person is rude, just move on and forget about it. There are plenty of docks and bass in the lake.

yeah some 80 yr old guy got mad at a bunch of bass fisherman because he thought they ran over his catfish lines and shot one of the guys with a 12 ga and killed him. them old people are crazy

Yea there was another incident though. Anyways, just watch out, those crazy B's are out there

Good post.

Here is a story that relates pretty good to this post.

My Mom and Dad own a place on Lake Conroe. Dad feeds the fish on a daily basis. Accordingly several local fisherman have figured out that their boat dock has a pretty steady population of fish in residence. Not to long ago there was a fisherman anchored a few yards from their dock (he fishes around their dock quite regulary, older gentleman, nice guy). Dad saw him fishing there and went down to the dock and told him that we were having a family gathering that day and he was hoping that his Grandchildren would be able to catch a few catfish. And would the gentleman mind fishing somewhere else that day? The gentleman said no problem and went somewhere else. The Grandkids showed up later and had a good day catching fish.

Everybody won.

Life is not near as complicated as some people would like it to be.

Life is too short to get bent out of shape about much of anything short of someone threatening the life of your loved ones.

Does not matter what you are doing, if you think of your Grandmother looking over your shoulder whatever you are doing and act in a manner that she would approve of you are probably okay.

It was the Bass Masters Classic in LA. A guy shot at Gary Klien. Heres some links.
http://www.bassfan.com/docktalk.asp?archive=8/22/2003

http://www.bassfan.com/rayscott_article.asp?ID=25

But there have several more including 1 involving Stacy King. Not to mention the 1 reported here last year on Lake Worth.

yea, that was the one I had heard about. Some people!

The former owner of the Benbrook Marina found out what would happen if he shot at a boat. Charges were filed and he plead it out.

Since this tread won't die, I have another comment. It is interesting to watch people fish my dock. You can tell the crappy fishermen, they just buzz by making a couple of off target casts and wonder why they don't catch anything.

Then, about every 20 boats or so someone comes by who knows what they are doing. I hate to see those guys. They pick the dock apart with casts right in tiny spots and always catch at least a couple of shorties, even if you think they are not biting.

I usually jump in the water and splash around when those guys show up. Just kidding, don't get excited.

Yeah, I hope that ol RipnLip reads this ... them grumpy old men have done lived their life, so what you gonna threaten them with ????? They ain't really got much to lose. And they don't really care about your $100 and your T.

TB guy eh?

Where are you at.. I'm in the Pendleton Harbour sub, at the 21/6 highway bridge.

Anyway.. it is pretty funny to watch boat after boat come into my cove throwing whatever baits. During tournaments, if I was a fish, I'd be shell shocked having flashbacks to Viet Nam.

Later when the herd has left I use my trolling motor and cruise around the area with Carolina rigs and take my time.

meh.. just saying.

Well. I don't own a dock but I'm gong to put my 2 cents worth in about the attitudes of certain fishermen, specifically, the amateur bass tourney fisherman with the $30,000 bass boat who paid the $100 entry fee and thinks he owns all the water in the lake, even the water I'm anchored on with my several lines in the water waiting on catfish on a hole that I baited.
This happened several years ago on Lake of the Pines at Johnson Creek during some pretty big tournament. I'm sitting about 20 yards off shore and here come the whole parade of bass boats single file up one side of the creek and down the other. They didn't seem to realize I was there. The tossed their baits around my lines, across my lines, one even hit the side of my boat. One guy even cussed me out cause he got tangled in one of my bottom rigs and played it like he had a big bass on.

It's the attitude that these imbeciles portray that make dock owners irate. If they get snagged on a deep set trot line the dock owner has running off his dock, the idiot get mad and cuts the trot line. If he gets his treble hook snagged on the boat carpet, dock carpet, swim ladder he leaves it for the kids to get caught on.

It's the attitude that "I spent my hard earned money for this fancy boat and high priced gear and entry fee and I am going to do anything I can to catch that bass under your dock" that makes people mad. When I was fortunate enough to live on Big Cypress Bayou above Caddo Lake I've had ski boats drive by close enough to spray me and my kids sitting on the dock.

Last year while fishing off a huge dock on Lake Fork my wife was complaing about me forgetting the ice. Out comes the dock owner from this little building on the dock carry a big bucket of ice to the boat, she said "My husband always forgets ice too."

I've seen a few dock owners give us the evil eye on Fork but that been about it. Most of the time on the smaller lakes i fish it's more like visiting neighbors.

Now that's pretty cool!

I have a special saying about these guys "Ignorance Breeds Arrogance" You have someone who was raised lower middle class and down by possibly less than wonderful parents and then they accidentally get a great paying job that they believe makes them the upper crust of this country.They are some how entitled to more than the people they grew up with and better than the people who earned all they have got.I do feel better knowing the foreclosure situation will weed out some of these types and dock them for a while, while all the time slapping the Hell ouuta them into reality OOOPPPSSSSS sorry i made a biblical naughty word.