I have seen more than once local jackpoters have brothers,cousins or friends set on their holes at 5am and hold their spots.

Sorry to hear this

I was fishing the brides in Ledbetter 90% of the day Saturday and didn't see the confrontation

It was a very busy place since it was sort of out of the wind
There were 2-4 boats on each bridge most of the day

LilLouie- Don't think it would be on his dime. The first problem would be proving it. His word against yours. Second your not gonna keep him there until police show up that's false imprisonment. I've done this twice had a ski boat that just insisted to keep circling me i hit the side with a 1oz weight guy stopped got all pissy told him it was an accident said he was gonna call police. I told him call the gw that way he could get a ticket for endangering me. Not saying what i did was right but he stopped and hopefully he had a learning experience. Same with a jet ski works everytime. Think your boat would look sweet on your own dime if this happened to you.

Yeah, the proof is the part that get's ya. Just because I said I will do it, Doesn't prove I did and it sure doesn't prove what happened to your glass.

I don't want you to take me wrong, I am not some bully on the lake, but I do stand my ground. I won't move in on anyone period and I am not likely to let them push me off a spot.

Now if you ask, I will probably not have a big issue and more than likely let you in but don't push, because I will push back

Admitting it was an accident is admitting fault. Nobody ever said the Police being able to do anything about it. Thats what insurance companies are for and civil court as well. Either way your responsible for the damamge to the other guys boat. yea my boat would look sweet but it wouldn't be on my dime. Either way, I dont crowd folks so I doubt this would ever happen to me. I'm just saying I don't think it happens as much as some folks on here act like it does. Maybe I'm wrong...pretty dang childish IMO but I'll be danged if I would allow anyone to throw something at my boat and just get away with it...

I hear ya Shawn... Just friendly conversation here bud. I just hear folks say they are gonna throw things at other people all the time. I don't move outta the way either... but I'm not gonna throw anything at someone's boat. I'm just not a good liar when it comes to lying to the Police or anyone for that matter.

i hate to say lil louie but in no way could you get the guy to pay for your boat, but as you said you dont crowd people so this will never happen to you. i never have to worry about it cause no one likes my spots they dont have fish on them.

The guy MAY have violated a tournament rule and probably did violate the unspoken rule of good sportsmanship on the water, but as far as I know, he did nothing illegal. Anything you do to get back at him will be looked at as you being the instigator. Sometimes you just have to pick your fights and I am not sure if this one is worth it.

I mean, if everyone solved their problems on the water, what are we going to read every Monday morning on the TFF Bass Fishing forum?

Ok so your insurance calls me i say don't know anything about it. Then we go to small claims court i say i don't know anything about it. You have no proof so nothing happens you wasted your time and your boat still has a ding. Just saying if people didn't act rude they wouldn't get rude treatment. I'm not pointing this at anyone like you said you don't do this so you don't have to worry about it just like i don't do this so i don't worry about it. People that do do this have to worry about it when they pull up on someone. If they would just ask they would get a whole lot better response.

The bigger question here is, "Did you catch any fish on the submerged road?"

so youre a good liar then... congrats

Waa Waa Waa, half the posters on here were probably your guy lol! He will never post, he will not say he was in the wrong. But he will do it again. He's a serial fisher lol. He should be caught and registered lmao....

If my lying taught you a valuable lesson then i'll take one for the team. Look at it this way had a friend years ago drive over some lines at cali here in San Antonio The guy shot him with a 357 mag almost died. So be grateful it's only a 1oz weight

It was early...first thing in the morning. I know the bridges are community holes, but there were only two of us there at that time. He could have easily moved toward the other end of it and we would have been fine, but he obviously wanted to fish exactly where I was sitting. He even said so. It wasn't much of a confrontation. I just wanted to let him know I'm not stupid or naive and I knew what he was doing was BS.

I also hope someone new to the sport who reads this kind of stuff will learn that it's not cool to crowd a fellow angler before he even starts doing it. The lake is something like 25,000 acres. If there's someone sitting on a spot you want to fish when you get there, show some courtesy and respect. The other guy got up in the middle of the night and paid his money to go to the lake and fish in the wind and cold, too.

No. I got good bite on a C-rig but I missed him. Not even a slap at it on a crankbait. It was kind of the story of my day.