As an Eagle Mountain Lake property owner & fisherman this will make this particular dock owner like fishermen that much more. Just because Dave had a confrontation with her let's all make it a point to go out of our way to do the same. That will teach her.

As a dock owner I have had issues with fishermen fishing my dock before. One did not think i should be able to fish off my dock even though I was on the dock fishing an hour before he showed up to fish my dock. Then there was the guy fishing the side of my dock that thought I should wait to come in from a morning of fishing myself & proceeded to cuss me out for putting my boat in my lift. Then there was the guy trying to crappie fish under my dock in a 20 mph wind from the south that let my dock poles be the stop for his boat. In the 20 years that I have lived on the lake most encounters with fishermen have been pleasant.

In 30 years of fishing Eagle Mountain I cannot remember any issues with other dock owners. If someone is on a dock I go to the next one.

All I am saying is nothing anyone does is going to change her attitude. If you happen to be fishing that area & she chooses to confront you move on or call the Game Warden, but don't be like her & and stoop to her level by harassing her.

Wrong. Doing nothing will do nothing to change her attitude. Reporting her to the GW enough times will change her tune. Make it inconvenient for her to be a heinous ladydog to random strangers and she might just stop. Also, eventually it'll stop being worth her time. You can only blindly rage out for so long before your body just forces you to stop.

You aren't stooping to her level by sitting there calmly fishing and ignoring her, or by calling the GW to handle her. By moving on whenever she confronts you, you are reinforcing her negative behavior with the reaction she wants. I can't help but assume or hope you don't have children if you think giving her what she wants when she throws a temper tantrum is the best solution... that's literally the worst thing you can do, because it empowers her and she will continue to behave in that manner and continue to escalate thinking she has power. That will literally only make matters worse.

If someone is fishing their dock, I won't bother to fish near them, same if they are on the bank, or parked in their boat. I am beyond courteous when it comes to sharing the water. Owning a dock doesn't mean you own the water, and the dock isn't there for her kids to swim off of either. They have roped off swimming areas for that, otherwise she can accept that it isn't 100% safe for them to swim in the public water. Owning a dock or shoreline property unfortunately does not give her the special privileges or power she thinks it does and she needs to learn that.

Your comment that her dock is not for her kids to swim off, makes you sound no different than her. Her kids have as much right to swim there as you have a right to fish there.

I personally would not swim there, I have seen too many snakes swim in & out of that rip rap.

Unless she approached me with a weapon I would just keep fishing and invite her to call the game warden if she felt I was trespassing.Hopefully he would set her straight.I wouldn`t argue with her or say another word to her.

What makes anyone different from her if you go there just to have a confortation?