Had a dock owner pull a gun on us at Fork. Long story short he spent the night in jail.

My comment about the dock not being a swimming area for her children was to point out that she doesn't expressly have rights to that water, it isn't a designated swimming area. I said exactly what I meant and what I said was 100% true. Don't try to make up issues where there aren't any. Owning a dock doesn't mean you own the water and owning shoreline property doesn't mean you get to manage the water there either.

If I wanted to "harass" her, I'd be entirely in my rights to come set jug lines all over the water right there so long as I was managing them within the law. It isn't her water. Period. No if ands or buts, get offended all you want, she is 100% wrong, and short of doing anything unlawful directly to her, no one is harassing her by being in the right legally... saying anyone is harassing her by being there is absurd and 100% reinforces her behavior.

I don't even have to call the game warden. No one does. They are within their right to go fish there all they want and all she can do is hen away. Again, ignoring her unlawful harassment =/= harassing her. Quit empowering the unlawful party by telling people they should respect her choice to attempt to break the law... what kind of mentality is that?

Karl Dietz,

I was a member of the boat club for about 3 yrs and my father was or about 4-5 yrs. there were about 8 fisherman in that entire place. I crappie and bass fished. There are some good people out there so don't think I'm saying they are all like that. I'm no longer a member bc they told us fishing is not allowed any more. We had some retired railroaders out there and when [censored] was hitting a fan.. They walked in the main office and put 3k on the table to continue fishing and they said no. Another story.. After they kicked all the fisherman out, the commodore, the head honcho of the boat club, had a son and he wanted to fish one day instead of riding his sailboat.. So he did but there were some members that started complaining..little did they know who's son it was and so he fished. This came from a worker I know who watches over the place. Are u or were u a member Karl?

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.

Had a dock owner pull a gun on us at Fork. Long story short he spent the night in jail.

I don't have a problem with people on the water near "my spot", but I do have a problem with the notion that someone is driving around the lake in a boat whose ballasts they have filled with water so he can throw the most enormous wake possible. Does it ever cross his mind that the people he is pulling behind his boat aren't the only ones getting to "enjoy" the four foot high wall of water he is intentionally producing?

We run with the ballast empty actually, but loaded with people it's plenty of weight still lol... that said, I honestly have more bass boats trying to swamp me than wake boats generally. Guys are VERY comfortable vaulting by very close on pad... wake boats are usually only much an issue when fishing the calmer waters out of the wind behind the dam/spillway at most lakes I frequent, witht he exception being around marinas which rent pleasureboats.... but those aren't actual boaters and are generally very hazardous people on the water regardless lol. I do really enjoy watching the shenanigans near those boat rental places sometimes though

End of the day, his wake may impact you but if you aren't in a no wake zone and he isn't unreasonably close to you, his wake is none of your business even if it rocks your boat. It's a lake, it has waves whether he makes them or not. Most nerve racking experience as a boater has to be bass tourney guys running on pad in blinding fog on Squaw though... that was beyond nuts! Had a boat end up treed like a raccoon that the faculty spent a lot of time assisting, what a way to ruin your day *Smh*