Fishing etiquette

[Fuze13]

Let me start off by saying all situations are different before this causes a rucus.

What is more aggravating then being on a school of fish that you have worked hard for all day to put your people on and it suddenly ends because somone either runs thru them or decides to troll up in the middle of them? NOTHING

Yesterday SaltERedneck and I finally got on that school of fish we had looked for all day in the dreadful wind. We had caught a few fish and a passing boat decided to stop about 100 yards away from us. No big deal, right. We continue to put fish in the boat one after another and before you know it, I can underhand flip my bait into their boat. Worse than that, his trolling motor is on top of where we were casting. Am I wrong to say this is unbelievably rude? We didn’t say anything and he eventually wondered off about 50 yards in disgust has he wasn’t catching a thing. We decided to give the school a break and fish a spot that had no action visible on the surface, but we knew there was fish there. We trolled out a way to be courteous to his space and then started up and ran to our spot. Looking back as we put the trolling motor down, he was riding right behind us the whole time and basically drifted 100 yards behind us starting his motor every so often to get on the same course as ours.

After catching a few flounder and reds, we decided to go hit the trout again. As lady luck would have it, the person cranked up and RACED us back to the hole and was unsuccessful doing so because his motor died. We get back on the fish by the time he makes it back and he motors right on over to us, drops trolling motor and begins to cast in the same 10ft area we are

I understand when fish are schooling and we all try to get a piece of the pie, but when is enough really enough? When do we lose our cool and make a scene to the people that are being straight up rude? I think Lady Lake had our backs by treating them with about 10 fish to our 100 or so. The point to this is to remind everyone the proper way to share a spot and a way to fish a school while being etiquette all at the same time.