[last minute]

Originally Posted by sk2008

don't rant much, what do you think of this situation? what would you have done?

went out to chain lake to record some fishing with the kids, 3 of us was there first(see pic) and about 30mins in, a boat was trolling slowly nearby...at the same time i caught a fish on my line, so i shouted to my kids to let them know i got one, the guys on the boat heard/saw me, and decided to anchor their boat nearby to cast their spoons.

they(2 guys 1 with tatoos on his arm) are so close(see pics) that i can hit them with my 1/2 oz. weight if i wanted to, and their choice of words around my younger kids, ***** this ***** that out of their mouth....
i almost wanted to throw my weight at them, lol. anyhow after while we decided to moved away from that spot, well.. they also moved away too after few mins. like.... WTF! then it rained on us, so we left.

anyhow..why fishing off shore when you have a boat..?
almost fell bad when they had trouble starting their ****ty boat engine lol.

Not a dam thing you could of done or try and cast in there direction and hope you don't hit them with your 1/2 oz weight

People pulling up close to you is a fact of life when you are catching. That won't change weather your on shore or in a boat - just seems to be normal. I always try and maintain a distance and very rarely do you pull up close to someone who is catching - I generally move on.

The bigger issue to me is swearing around the kids - that's simply poor behaviour and classless, but again, seems to be the norm with some of those young tattooed, pierced, cigarette smoking, heavy metal listening, wiper snappers.

this is well said ^^^^^^^