ppl you hate seeing most in the water - poll

Has anyone ever seen someone catch something worthwhile when surf-casting? 99% of the time, they don't catch a damn thing.

 

I've only ever had one physical altercation on the sand....with a fat foul fishermen...

 

I hate the fukkin fishermen, too, but the title of the poll is who do you hate _in_ the water.

 

We were at CB one July day. Hot as ballz, usual 8-15 mph onshore wind, dead low tide, and this guy gets his kayak with a big chunk of fish and big hook (like a half arse shark rig) and paddles it out right past the break and dumps it. Then goes back and just leaves it with the ticker on. Before long the drift has pulled the line in an arc about 1/4 mile down the beach. The bait hasn't moved so now he has a giant loop running through the water. Kids everywhere are getting tangled up in, getting clotheslined, everyone getting ticked off so I go tell him to tend his line. He cops an attitude with me. I tell him he's an idiot, that I've fished these waters for decades and he's not going to catch a dam thing in these conditions, and he's clotheslining kids with his line. Tend your line, I tell him again. He still acts like an arse about it so I go to angry dad number one beside us and ask to borrow his fillet knife.

He decides he'd rather do the deed, wades out in the water, starts tugging on the line like mad. After about min dumbarse fisherman finally realizes his rod is jumping up and down and runs to set the hook. He then notices angry dad yanking his chain and can do nothing but stare as he cuts his line. He says nothing to knife wielding angry dad. About a half hour later he left.

 

Voted for the kayaks b/c those guys in plastic tubs are heavy enough to outright kill you AND they seem to have even less control than the average SUPer. That said, fishermen are my real #1. How hard is it NOT to cast directly in front of me and my buds? And maybe I don't know much about fishing but it seems to me that's the last place you'd want to put in a line. Call me naive.

 

Sups should come with a noose , If you ride one your life is pretty much over.

 

Fishermen probably say the same thing about surfers when they see 25 guys bouncing off each other over a waist high peak.

 

Very true.

 

This oughta cheer ya up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDccdvAAQNY

 

That was hilarious and precisely the reason I don't mess with wind sports.

 

cracked me up.
especially that dood suspended in the stratosphere...

 

+1

 

Lol, I remember that day. Oh wait that happens almost every day there are waves. You forgot to add how one of your friends freaks out and starts paddling away and disappears into the distance.

 

True but only SUP-douche is capable of taking every set wave. If there'a paddle-battle rippers around, I'll change strategy and still find something to ride... until SUP douche shows up.

Then there is literally nothing- the combo of both douches can reduce a smorgasbord of shoulder high peelers to mere blackness, a veritable void of waves on an otherwise fine day.

F*ck them both.

 

Tourists are the worst thing on the list by far.

 

My brother and I had been in one spot by ourselves for a good hour and a half, and the fisherman shows up and throws his line about 20 feet from me on the inside. And then got pissed when I told him to move down

 

The fishing thing has always been a huge problem in NJ. Saw a fight at Sandy hooks second jetty back in the late 70s. One of the many fisherman there that day literally casted his line, hit and hooked a local guy in the leg. That was a short jetty and there were always 10 or more fisherman casting lines right across the path of the surfers. You were doing a combo of surfing and limbo as you tried to make it under and around all the lines. I've had less issue in Maryland.

 

Its not that I hate SUP'ers, its I hate SUP'ers that frigging wave hogs, There are some out there that have no consideration for anyone but themselves and that pisses me off. Ok I'm done venting.

 

Tourists and fishermen are tied for the worst things in history.

At least fishermen give me tasty seafood...

tourists do ONLY bad for me. Nothing good for me, except maybe more surf shops/chick-fil-a's.

 

i love chick fil a def best fast food of all time. i ate there once a day for a month lol.