My spots all suck.

Kick his a** sea bass!

The best way I've found to make your point without getting your a$$ whipped or having to whip someone else's is this:
Me: Hey bud, do you know how many acres this lake is?
Him: 25,000.
Me: Any reason you need to fish the 100 yards I'm fishing?
Usually they'll either just move on or apologize. Lots of fishermen, just like MANY people who dive cars, are oblivious or just plain ignorant of basics. Sucks but it is what it is.

Sorry but couldn't help myself. I would say handle it the way you feel is best! no matter what you do, someone will find fault in it. I most likely would have invited him to come aboard but that is not necessarily the right thing to do. I am sure it took him a while to get all your line out of his trolling motor. Its no different than road rage IMO! most of the folks that run their mouth like that, outside of those circumstances are great folks....they just let the situation and distance give them a since of security that is not well placed depending on the other parties propensity for violence

Was that you on the boat? There was another way to get to the spot he was going to and as you can see from the information I gave, another fisherman didn't have a problem going through about 100 feet of very spaced out "stickups" with the trolling motor. I have gone through a lot worse.

Nope, just giving another perspective on the situation....as I said.

I get cut off from time to time. I just laugh it off and catch fish anyways.

It wasn't a cutoff, we were stationary. We were fishing in four feet of water and he trolled right over the water we were fishing.

Don't let people like that upset you, just keep enjoying your time on the water. Or let them control your life by getting you so upset.

When I finally get to retire.. I will never fish on the weekends! I be a week day guy only! When my dad was alive he worked shift work and most of his days off were in the week. He loved it! Lol.

I'm retired. I agree with you.

Hate to bring you bad news Coolarrow, but some of those same people fish during the week. I only fish during the week that's how I know. You can still enjoy your time on the water by ignoring them. Time on the water is too precious to let someone take away your joy. There are certain areas on every lake that attract the most anglers. Find other areas to fish and you lessen the chance of having a conflict.

I like to leave as soon as possible, with my prop on top of the water chopping up a good old rooster tail..
See ya I am stupid as stupid does...HeeHee.
Also I dress like a game warden and have a Center Console. They don�t get stupid around me that much anymore.

If your in the boat lane expect to get a flyby. I will not but there are plenty of others that will on all lakes.

On the other side of the same coin, we were fishing a tournament on Lake Tyler and the wind was blowing pretty good out of the north. We pulled into a small cove on a south facing bank where we have caught a few fish over the years. There are 6-7 docks in the cove and just as I got up to drop the trolling motor my partner and I both saw a guy come trolling from behind a dock 75 yards away. We both said at the same time, "I didn't see that guy over there."

I could tell he was yelling something at us but because of the wind I couldn't hear him. I asked him what he was saying and this time I heard him yell, "I know you saw me fishing here!"

I pulled up the trolling motor and told him that no, we didn't see him but that we were leaving. He kept yelling that he was headed that direction and that we were cutting him off. Even as we were idling out he kept yelling. I thanked him for being so courteous.

Ha try kayak fishing! Half the glitter boats behave as if you arent even there!

But to be fair that number goes up to 95% when you talk about ski boats...