Ronnie, are you responding to me? I never said anything about a wall cloud. .

If he really wanted cover, he could of had it...at the marina he launched from...

So, are you saying that after the 20 minute break you headed back just in case another storm blew in, or did you continue fishing??? Interesting to know, because it indeed shows how much actual "danger" you believed yourself to be in, and exactly how you dealt with it in relation to the tournament. If you stayed and fished, then to myself you did not consider the situation that dangerous. But, if you left when there was a small break in the storm, now I believe that was prudent thinking and that your finding cover within a drivable distance was more than necessary.

Now, once again, threatening violence toward another for using their property??? That sounds like something unsafe and reckless...I don't need to talk to anyone to figure that out. Doesn't sound like a conservative angler to me at all...

So you keep huffing and puffing, using your little smileys and whatnot, and throwing names out here and there, but when you say that you are going to utilize someone's dock anyways without their permission and that they can't stop you, there's a name for that type of person...

As to you, GClark, no, I am not saying that taking shelter in someone else's dock is perhaps a malicious attempt to fish it... not at all, nor am I suggesting that the fisherman does not deserve the shelter...what I am saying though is that when someone else tells you not to use your property, and then they try to use it without your consent to get out of a situatiion in which they put themselves into with possible undercurrents of violence, doesn't seem so acceptable to me. Frankly, I don't care how old, or how experienced, or what the heck you think you are. I don't appreciate being called foolish by no one, especially someone that can't seem to watch the weather station or listen to it on the radio. You wanna go fishing when there's a possibility of a storm? Great. But know that you are putting yourself in danger. Do not act surprised when you are caught in a big storm. I am not hating the boater, "dude", but perhaps you should stop hating the dock owner so much and at least place the majority of the blame on the boater, "dude."

First of all, there is no need for your apparent aggression toward me. I never called you foolish and I never said I was hating the dock owner. In fact I only said that the regs provide for safe harbor using any means necessary of any boater caught in inclement weather. I never addressed the violence issue you speak of so directing your comments concerning that to me are mis-directed. No need to get heated about it, we are merely discussing here. If "dude" offends you as you seemed to imply with your seemingly quoted sarcasm, then I take it back. I think your attitude of the angler putting himself in that situation is selfish one. For someone to think of it in that way doesn't make sense at all to me. Once again regardless of how or why they are caught in the storm, they need help. For someone to deny them shelter from a dangerous storm tells me a lot about that person. You always go back to someone being the blame. It is not about placing blame, it is about doing the right thing to help a fellow human being when they are in danger. I never said that I go fishing when there is a threat of a thunderstorm either. You need to keep your facts straight.

A few years ago, I witnessed an altercation here on BP that was a classic. I am chucking and reeling along the bank. I hear a woman cussing out a dock owner like a sailor. They were TIED up to his dock and keeping every Crappie they caught. The owner was asking calmly to please untie from his dock. This got a barrage of cussing in response.

They finally left, I talked with the owner who said these people had been doing this several days straight. He had called the GW who had not caught them yet.

A few days go by, I am in the same area again, and here is the same boat on the same dock. This time the owner is livid and the old woman is letting fly with the vulgarities.

The dock owner comes back with a power washer and starts to clean his dock, drenching these idiots. They have not returned since.

So, are you saying that after the 20 minute break you headed back just in case another storm blew in, or did you continue fishing??? Interesting to know, because it indeed shows how much actual "danger" you believed yourself to be in, and exactly how you dealt with it in relation to the tournament. If you stayed and fished, then to myself you did not consider the situation that dangerous. But, if you left when there was a small break in the storm, now I believe that was prudent thinking and that your finding cover within a drivable distance was more than necessary.