Like InTheClear said above...none of them were that good, most action was up north Saturday in the Jungle

Wow they pulled a gun on you and threatened you? Did you notify the local authorities or the TPWD?

I would have gotten a little closer , then asked them which tourney they are fishing ---- then contacted law enforcement and advised them your life has been threatened . I would have written down the their boat numbers , then also advised the tourney director that one of their participants is threatening other boaters with a weapon . I 100% guarantee that guy NEVER does that again .
THe only thing that changes the behavior of guys like these , are consequences . If you actually caught them on video threatening you with a gun ----- he goes to jail !!!!

Yeah, tournament fishermen are really serious. That's taking it to an extreme. But in a way it does not surprise me. I was at Toledo Bend fishing a tournament and a guy wanted to beat me up cause I was fishing in the same medium sized arm of a cove.

I often wonder where the line can is drawn on distance people expect. It seems like when fishing a bridge its ok to just be 1 set of pilings away, but if its a cove its like you shouldn't even enter if another boat is in there.

And I will just add, that I dont get within 100 yards of other boats unless we are headed in opposite directions towards each other and start off much further away (or I am fishing a bridge). At which point I am almost always the one that swings wide to go around and give them the shore/docks/etc. But I just think people get to crazy over closeness, especially when most of them are just beating the banks all across the lake anyways. This is actually another reason why I prefer fishing deep structure on spot lock so I dont have to worry about other people coming or going. If our baits arent touching or lines crossing I dont have a problem. There have been a number of times when I am on a school out deep and invited another boat to cast in from the other direction.

I agree JP. But as long as they keep the 25 foot to 50 foot boat rule these guys will keep pushing the limit.
There is a trail I have fished for years and we are just now getting these guys that will pull on top of you not look at you and cut you off. I had never worried about the distance rules because rarely if ever would the guys we fished with pull withing 300 yards less feet. I found out the distance rule was 25 foot! I said heck that is one boat length! That is way to close.

Stay in your lane bro......

getting told you are going to get a gun is different than pulling one out an pointing it at the op if I can cast an hit your boat with a lure you are too close not much common courtesy on the water anymore or on the land with the look at me society we have now.

Was shot at during a tournament on Palestine in 2010 in flat creek. Some idiot racked off a full clip from an AR over our heads. We were the only boat back there and out in the middle clearly visible. Game wardens never did anything. Some sketchy humans live around that lake...

Should have taken a picture and posted it for everyone to shame them....I always lie and say I am too..even if I'm not...

I had some friends of mine shot at with a shotgun while fishing a dock on Palestine a few years ago. They just when on. I do not have that much control. I would have pulled out of range of the shotgun and called the law. They just moved on .

If you are talking about that very small C-shaped cut right by the Ramp by the dam then there is not enough room for 2 if you don't know each other. You can easily pitch a bait across that area. However, that does not excuse them from threatening to shoot you or pulling a gun. But if you fished that cove with them then you were crowding them.

Jody

Was the Triton aluminum or fiberglass? Did it have a white stripe?

Dang Palestine sounds scary with all these people getting shot at. Why does anybody fish this lake. Sounds like it would be safer to go somewhere else. I know I won’t ever fish it again. I value my life.

Over there by the horse farm. The orange was my path starting where I put my trolling motor down by the dock and went through the cut. and the red dot is them when I can around the corner. The trees are pretty thick back there so I didn't see them until I was coming around the corner. But there was no reason I couldn't slip past them and keep on fishing.

Triton was an older glass model with an early 2000s Merc 200HP. Super faded and dingey