What is your opinion. My buddy and I headed out to West Van in a boat early this morning. We left the launch when it was dark enough that we needed our navigation lights on. We arrived to the pink apartments early, and well before the masses. We dropped anchor and began fly fishing. We were pretty close to shore sitting in about 25 feet of water. As the day got busier we noticed that more and more boats were driving really close to us. It was a real piss off. These useless scum bags feel it is there god given right to cruise wherever the hell they want even if it means driving within 30 feet of our boat as we are trying to fly fish. Many times we had boats on both sides of us. I'm not asking for a 100 foot buffer around my boat when I'm out on the water but I feel like some people look at a fly fisher and think we are in the way. It's really frustrating. Myself, I occasionally troll too, but would never in a million years intentionally drive over someones fly line. One fat douche bag says to me "you better strip your line in" as he is cutting in between 3 of us anchored. I can't remember what I said to him, but he tells us we are in a trolling lane and then says don't make me come over there. I understand if there were 10 boats anchored in front of a popular location like the mouth of the cap, it would cause some problems for the 100 boats that like to troll, but when it's 3 guys anchored and trying to fly fish it is very frustrating especially since we are off in our own little area. I know it is a busy time of year. I know it is a busy stretch of shore. I know some people are oblivious and don't realize what they're doing, but this rant isn't about that. This is about the fact that there seems to be a disregard for anchored boaters out on the ocean. Who has the right of way?
Oh, and to cap things off. We managed to land 5 Coho, and lost another 5 so in the end it was a good day, but most of the morning was very stressful.
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Topic: Fly fishers vs. Trollers (Read 3526 times)