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Saturday prior to Memorial Day frustrating ending to a nice day
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stew1tx
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SALTWATER FISHING
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06/01/2008 12:52:32
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Took my uncle, Randy Steward, and my tournament
partner and part of Team Castnshoot, Brandon Marshall, fishing. We hit
many areas with nothing much more than some undersized fish and of
course the oversized red Brandon is holding in his half naked pose
showing off his unmanly frame (hehehehe just joking Brandon) which
makes that 32-34" redfish look like a 25" fish. We ended up at one of
Brandon's favorite places.
He bailed out of the boat, I was reorganizing some tackle as I was
going right up against the shoreline. We were sitting there as Brandon
was a few feet away and here came a Majek Extreme loaded with people
running about 65 getting ready to plant themselves upon the sandbar we
were getting ready to wade up against. They would have run inside my
boat, and it was anchored about 100 yards off the shore.
We managed to wave them off, and brandon makes his way to the dropoff.
About the time he gets to his most productive water here comes another
uneducated boater, to put it nicely, right at him in a Blazer Bay I
think it was. I could not get to my camera fast enough to get my shots
of it getting ready to happen. I got a little concern for his well
being, they were heading right for him, he was waving his arms, had his
shirt off so you know they could not miss him. They kept coming and I
could tell they would at least miss him at this point.
So, I dug a little more diligently and found it about the time they
shut down whether they wanted to or not 10 yards from him AT THE
FURTHEST! I know he was fuming, they ran through his fishing water,
they almost ran over him, then shut down right as they got to the sand
bar. You can see the smooth water behind Brandon in the pictures, it is
amazing. Then they tilt up the motor and try and jump up and throw
bottom everywhere. Brandon and a guy in the boat exchanged some words
and we thought there was going to be a fight as one of the guys was
crawling out of the boat. I told my uncle I bet Brandon is going to
handle both of them without problem as I started taking pictures.
So later after I got to Brandon he explained what all the bickering was
about. He said the guy asked where deeper water was, Brandon pointed to
the ICWW since he was in a much deeper v bottomed bay boat. He then
said well I ran through here yesterday. Brandon was in shock that
someone would run that close to another person fishing, especially in
that kind of boat when he could see brandon was in less than knee deep
water. Then finally he said he was sorry as he jumped out of the boat
when it was already in deeper water to push. That was after motoring
through where Brandon was headed all the while he was walking only 20'
away at best. The pictures will tell the rest of the story.
I told Brandon that these guys were probably from the Port
O'Connor-Houston area as they had NO CLUE as to what they were doing in
a boat. I am not generalizing about an area or even saying that there
are not locals that have the same ignorance but it seems to be much
more prevalent in the mid coast area. So, please do not take this short
story that way because most of the serious fishermen up that way would
agree with me there is a serious problem on the water and that area is
probably more serious than the rest of the area from the large number
of boats they have on the water. Again, another classic example of why
we need MANDATORY boater's education before your allowed to title a
boat. I would be willing to sacrifice my time and even a little money
to go through it to see to it that this becomes a thing of the past,
sacrifice a little for the better of the whole.
I told Brandon that I would not have been so kind, he said well it
was obvious they didn't know any better and I could tell he wanted to
be the bigger man and walk away. Hell, if I was his size I would have
at least scared them a little or climbed in the boat with them saying
let me help you and then started a lecture. Yes, I am that brazen and
that is probably the best thing for new uneducated boaters, a good
short and sweet lecture of OTWE (on the water ethics) and why they
should be more attentive. There are some people I know that really are
not even close to that nice and have thrown topwaters rigged
intentionally with big treble hooks across in front of boaters that
have run within casting distance if there was another route and had
lost many'a lures in clothing, skin etc.. over the years.
So, enjoy the pics and remember, try and give another fishermen as much
room as possible, if they are wading, run around them deeper, if they
are drifting to and run either as far down wind so as not to disturb
the rest of their drift or way upwind realizing that they might have
caught some fish and they will run back upwind and make another drift.
Try and not anchor in channels and realize some boaters will run
through that channel, just part of the game especially with channels to
back lakes and marshes. If someone is running up on you and your
catching fish wave your arms and tell them to stop. I have no problem
sharing fish but when someone runs up on me and runs them out we are
going to have some choice words.
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Regards,
Brian W. Steward
Staff Professional Tournament Anger- www.castnshoot.com
Johnson Outdoors
Minn Kota
Humminbird
Tran Sport Boats
Billy Stix Custom Rods
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