Run in from last Saturday evening

[Smalls21]

Very good of you to stay calm in that situation, it could have gotten out of hand quickly.

[Terrierman]

Good job staying calm and dealing with a bad situation in a very adult manner. Don't go down the gun road unless your life is in danger. No one wants to shoot someone or get shot over anything short of that.

[Bill Babler]

Bill Beck and I had a similar situation this past week. I did not stay calm, I went ballistic. Beck was about 50 yards awayt with his group, and he said he could see steam rising from my head as this unfolded.

We have really been catching quality fish, and quite a few of them in the Kimberling City area. These fish are pretty deep, they are way off the points suspended over trees with the tops of the trees in the 20 ft. range. You have to make a good effort to get there early and to get your clients moving as this bite last from about 5:30 till no later than 7 and it is flat over.

We have been getting up at 3:30 every morning to get around and be on the water with the clients by 5 AM to get to these locations and get ready to catch them. The fish have been a mixture of all of our 3 black bass species with some very nice fish up to 6 pounds.

Long story short, Bill and I were set up, both with our boats off the point making long casts with the Dixie Jet, letting the spoon flutter to just above the tree tops when the first boat came in at about 6 AM. Bill's client had a fish on and this guy drove around him, threw down his trolling motor and starting fishing while sitting directly on the fish, not a half a cast in front of where Bill's client was tusseling the fish. When you run a boat over the spot like that you force the fish down in the trees and for gosh sakes, come on how can you possibly do that to another fisherman.

About this time my client hooked up and I'll be durned here came another boat out of the same resort and threw down right between Bill and I and started to come and get directly in front of me. As you can guess, I did not handle it as calmly as Bill did. My first scream could have been heard to Shell Knob and we were fishing between the dam and Kimberling City. I'm afraid my language was a bit off also, as the "What the $$$$ are you doing, you silly $$$ $$ $ $$$$$ is still ringing thru the timber at the point.

My client said I handled it perfectly as he said in Texas someone would have gotten shot or at least Bull Whipped for a move like that, to pull into and in front of people that are fighting fish.

I simply told my client to reel his fish in we were leaving. I netted the fish we loaded up and I plowed 3 circles around the tree tops and two circles around the A-$$$$$ that pulled in on me.

Bill tried to get away from them being much more of a gentleman than I was and the fools cut him off again. He made a pretty strong statement in their direction and took off for other parts.

Not 2 hours later we are fishing the ned down a bank and I had a guy with a boat full of kids troll in front of me and catch my ned rig. How close if that. I pulled my rig and snapped it and I'll be durned if the guy did not throw down his trolling motor and start fishing within 25 yards of me. I just looked at him and he looked back and said "What, you don't own the lake." He had a boat full of kids and I had a guide client or this would have ended differently.

Right before we came in we were fishing another point with the ned and a guy pulled a wake boarder right in front of me between us and the bank, and we could cast a ned to the front of the bushes if that tell you anything.

It was time to go in.

[Champ188]

It's ridiculous out there anymore. Just completely ridiculous.

[buddygr53]

What a bunch of a-holes

[GNSfishing]

It's just a sign of the times, no respect all around. That goes for some of the fishermen now days as well for the pleasure boat operators. They just have the me only attitude and to hell with anyone else. Boy what I'd give for the time to roll back 30 years to the time people respected their self and others not only on the lake but world as a whole.. Including the supreme court.... ;-) ...........What a crock..............

[Ketchup]

That aint no joke. ^^^^

[ness]

Yeah, leave the gun at home. I'd rather get my butt kicked a hundred times than live the rest of my life knowing I killed somebody over a spat at a boat ramp, regardless of the situation. There are a-holes out there. Figure out how to live life with them. You won't cure them.

[Mofloatjunkie]

Good point Ness, but me personally i wouldn't lose a minute of sleep if I HAD to shoot someone that was trying to harm me or my loved ones.

[InPiney]

I can't even imagine what the 4th is going to be like this year with lower gas prices and nice weather.