Fishermen's attitude

[MountainWalk]

in most states, HH also encompasses fishing...... never said talking too loudly would qualify,, but throwing rocks and such,, well,,,,,, tha way i look at it is,, if i dont want anyone doing it to me, i wont do it to them.

[robodad]

WOW you guys sound like it is a complete pain in the ass to go fishing anymore, I find it just the opposite, of coarse I am usually over friendly while on the river or anywhere for that matter and I can't think of a time I ran into any rude or obnoxious folks. I find that most folks are quite friendly and are just having a good time, I just try to act like it is my first time and most folks just leave me alone or offer some advise that I promptly file away in my brain droppings. 

[ICEMAN]

Actually I have found that having some asswipe plow thru a hole very often stirs it up and repositions fish into catchable positions. I have landed steele on the Nooch, and had three guides swarm my fishin hole like flies to *censored*. No class at all. Just-get out of the way, I am trying to make a living putting fish in the boat for my paying customer. Like I wasn't supposed to be there or something. I can barely handle the river fishing. Never really could. I cannot stand next to someone in the river as they smoke a cig, and belch and stink it up. I would rather fish a crappy section of river than compete over a "honey hole". Alot of these 'fishermen' are a different breed. They have no problem fishing right between other guys all day long. Nothing ruins a quiet foggy morning on a river than having a boatload of whitetrash show up and start yapping it up as they snap gear off in trees and yell back and forth to eachother. I call this "trailerpark fishing".

We pull the anchor and move off when they show up. This way nobody gets hurt....

[Head-shot]

...Nothing ruins a quiet foggy morning on a river than having a boatload of whitetrash show up and start yapping it up as they snap gear off in trees and yell back and forth to eachother. I call this "trailerpark fishing".

I had always heard it called something with more of a southern redneck twist to it, a lot less PC to it. But yep thems the same boat load of turds. 

[MuleySniper]

You guys are referring to fly fisherman right?
MS

[billythekidrock]

Actually I have found that having some asswipe plow thru a hole very often stirs it up and repositions fish into catchable positions.   

I have had guys on shore ask us to "stir it up a bit" when going by in a boat...and I have seen it work enough to know that it can bring on a "bite" out of aggression.

I cannot stand next to someone in the river as they smoke a cig, and belch and stink it up. I would rather fish a crappy section of river than compete over a "honey hole".

Same here... Sometimes I don't want people..or fish..to bother me while I am fishin'..

[Ray]

I think there are jerks everywhere but the problem you had was the purist LL bean, Orvis crowd!

Bingo. That's it. Oh and yes it is fishermen mostly because they know they can get away with it. It's too hard and not really worth it to stop and confront people who think they can launch an attitude across the water as if they are tough guys or something.  Behavior which never seems to come up on dry land and that is the reason they do it - because they know that nobody else will confront them.

[jackelope]

I think there are jerks everywhere but the problem you had was the purist LL bean, Orvis crowd!

i love ll bean...used to go there every summer when i lived back east. and orvis...their customer service and warranty are second to nobody.
you guys friggin amaze me sometimes.
a couple on here know me well enough to know that i am not an elitist purist snob...but some of you guys posting in this thread talking smack about fisherman are the same guys who speak down about guys who are not willing to walk 5 miles to shoot a deer and who don't understand why a guy would shoot a deer thats not a booner, then flip a guy *censored* for shooting a dink buck.

my point i guess is that there are a-holes in every crowd...hunting, fishing, boating, etc. the driftboat guys don't like the jet sled guys and the bank guys don't like the boat guys and the blah blah blah. it comes down to courtesy. i own a driftboat and float a  few rivers a few times a year. if i am fishing a steelhead run swinging a fly and some dude low-holes me in a a boat, i'm gonna get pissed, it's a courtesy thing. if other people bother you, fish somewhere where there are no other people. it amazes me every time i float the sky how people get pissed about being crowded in a hole that is known to hold fish...welll duh....there's only so many holes and there are 8324 fishermen out here today...what did you expect??

[Ray]

I'd say that during my small experience drift boating there is an overwhelming stench of arrogance among that crowd. I'll stick to something else. You don't have to be upset about the facts 

[jackelope]

it's not everybody.

[sisu]

I hate the new breed of fly fisherman, fly fisherwoman, etc. Ever since A River Runs Through It came and went fly fishing has gone down hill. I've fished flys, worms, spinners, plugs, etc. since I can remember and the new breed fly fisher sucks the big one. Pompous, arrogant, ignorant asses from high density urban areas coming on with their I'm better than you attitude, Oh, you're going to keep that fish...we catch and release etc. Who ever started this thread got me fired up now.

I love it when these types are on a river during a big run and I'm cover with blood, slime, and stink like a friggin' fish. I usually try to shove a cigar in my mouth at this point and explain that fish, deer, moose, duck, birds are all protein and I love protein.

Drifting, jet boating, sitting in a lake fishing every butt hole-e-o has an opinion, but if it's my boat it's only my opinion that counts.

[boneaddict]

Who chit in your wheaties this morning?    Now go vote on pic of the month.

[Tall Chief Hunting Club]

i agree....the flyboy these days seems to think they are the ultimate. the attitude is wrong and the way they talk to some people is rude. i have had my fair share of run ins with them on the snoqualmie river in the summer and it seems that they don't think i should be there. the river is open to everybody. i just don't like it when they think i ruin their fishing when my boat goes over "their" hole.

[huntnphool]

I fish the Cowlitz a lot and for the most part the guys I have been around are pretty cool. Its when you get someone trying to fish a different way that gets their hackles up. Most boats will drift single file in a long line and head back up river after making drifts. Occasionally you will see someone that decides to anchor right in the middle of a drift or pull plugs through it, I generally just reel up until I pass them but some of the guides get downright nasty yelling at these folks, get out the popcorn and listen some times

[sisu]

Who chit in your wheaties this morning?    Now go vote on pic of the month.

I was fishing this weekend. Saw "multi-use" of a small lake by fishermen and pleasure boaters. The lake is too small in my opinion to have a boat on with a motor bigger than say 10hp. Kept waiting for fist-a-cuffs to fly but only verbal action.

Saw too many people keeping very small cutts to eat, people blasting music, telling their small children to shut the hell up, not paying for their camp site because they know no one is checking, litter, human *censored* in my immedate camp site area, and the smell of raw sewage that I believe one of the motorhomers released into the camping area woods.

I could add more to the list Bone but why, all it does is make me dislike the human race more than I do now.