Board stabbed in dispute between angler, surfer

One time, at band camp....

I mean, One time at the Cocoa Pier, I was the only person in the water or on the beach just before sunrise. I was catching waves and riding them to shore and paddling back out and doing it over and over again when suddenly some douche canoe who barely spoke English showed up and decided to post up on the sand, right where I was surfing, and proceeded to cast out in my direction. He wasn't on the pier, he was next to it.

After I caught a wave and rode it in, I turned around to paddle back out and felt a tug on my ankle. Sure enough, the D bag hooked into my leash, and thankfully not me. I unhooked his line and gave it a good tug and yelled some expletives in his direction and told him that if it happens again there's going to be problems, or something to that effect.

I paddled back out, turned around, and he was gone. Why did he have to do that? There was literally nobody else on the beach or in the water. F man!

 

This is such a 90s CB move. WB is going downhill, while CB is on the rise.

How about said "fishermen" throwing weights at surfers?

Am I the only one that paddles out in the winter, only to have a squad of fishermen roll up & post up at your break? Quite annoying.

I'll have to find the thread - maybe 3-4 years ago - but I posted a picture of some dickwad dropping a line on the fourth of July with 30+ people floating in his immediate casting area.

15+ years ago, I would get out of the water and try and start some shit......never had anyone stab my board though. I guess that's a WB thing......

 

Without clicking the link I said “NC” for sure!

The only time in my life I’ve ever been fucked with by fisherman was at Jeanette’s pier. The North Carolina locals are a special (in)breed type of dip shit.

 

Happens to me all the time at one of my regular spots. I am usually the first one on the beach or in the water but there seems to be a fisherman or a group of them that will find me and post up right where I'm surfing. They could literally go anywhere else on the beach in either direction and find solitude but they prefer casting right into the peak i'm surfing. They never catch shit either, like ever.

 

Funny how fisherman-surfers have a problem with neither.

 

As long as I'm not slugged with a 5oz. sinker were all good. If I do, then reel my ass in and watch the show.
On a side note, monofilament cuts pretty easy on fins.

 

The last time I surfed it was low incoming tide about midway which translates into the water was 3’- 5’ deep for about 200yds our from shore ... I was literally standing in chest deep just waiting for the sets, and there were a family of four swimming right off the shoreline too - when a guy literally posts up beside them and casts out about 50’ away wth a surface plug. I swear to God some people are genuinely fucking dumb. I wave to him and the what gives hands up ... he looks right at me and casts closer!
Walked in about 50 feet and called him an asshole
And a few other choice words... and I swear he smiled, waved like we were besties and does it again.
No lie.
So the last 50’ feet was a stumbling run dragging my bort towards him with me describing where the lure, pole, and stupid hat he was wearing was going, and the lady next to him comes running towards me telling me he’s deaf and half senile.

Also, no lie.

Yeah, I threatened a deaf old senile Spanish guy with waterboarding.’

Carry on.

 

I've seen the clueless clowns start casting right where families are already swimming and wading...not infrequently using light to medium freshwater gear.

Another story:
Summer afternoon at First Landing State Park Beach on the Chesapeake Bay side of VB. Lots of families in the water enjoying themselves. Then from over the dunes, like ants from an ant hill appear multiple families of Chinese folks. Across the beach and into the water they come, jabbering away and having a great time.
Many enter the water holding a string attached to some unidentifiable object. The objects tied the strings turn out to be chicken legs, necks and other parts. In the midst of where everyone else is swimming, floating and wading, they're crabbing.

 

I just closed my eyes and saw that in my head and laughed my ass off.

 

That’s like attempted murder or something, wtf is wrong with people? lol

 

Agreed- once you have done and understood both - you learn to respect the other...

 

Watch your mouth (j/k). NC boys will be on the end of pier going for Cobia or king. I have had bottom rigs tossed at me over the years...dudes trying catch a croaker and getting pissed on the inside are the yahoos!

 

Don't mess with the Asians when they go about fish catching. They are OAM and got run out of whatever god forsaken part of the planet they grew up in, and lived to tell about it, so they ignore us round eyes. Unless we get in their way, then it's WAR, so you better be armed.

Redneck anglers surf casting are just dumb. Dumb, Dumber and Dumbest. One old dude, at Hobe Sound Wildlife Refuge, on a grey lonely day, he looked like he stepped out of an LL Bean catelogue, he started throwing treble hooked pyramid sinkers in my wife's direction as she was body surfing, I was way outside catching sets and saw it go down, got one in and walked up to him and said why? He was dumbfounded that I was part of the equation. They are all clueless rabid assholes.

Another time I was paddling out along the rip at the Juno Pier, a guy snagged a surfer in the ass right next to me and his kids cheered. Back when the old Juno Pier was standing, before cameras, they sometimes got tossed off the pier, followed by bait buckets, rods, etc. if they messed with the wrong local. Not now. We have a truce kinda, and the cops will be there in 2 minutes.

And don't help them get their lures unsnagged from the rocks while snorkeling and doing sand reconne. No favors for asshoooles. All they do is jerk the lure right as you free it up from the rocks, and snag your hand because they are so impatient and patently stupid, I saw them do it to a kind friend of mine one time, he was so naive and helpful,and I have warned lots of folks I snorkel with around the jetty, they are asshoooooles.

 

Whew! Glad I got that off my chest. Need waves. Bad. Now. LOL

 

never argue with a man with a knife unless you have a gun... you know , like a really big wave board

 

This one happened at the Skyway Pier on a hot Summer day...

I was fishing with a buddy and we had locked down the little nook by a wall where one can post up and not have anybody right on top of them. Or so I thought.

Well, this Asian guy walked over from like 50 yards away and steps right between me and the wall to throw a cast net, right where I was fishing.

There was literally like 3-5 feet between me and the wall and he just had to squeeze in there and crowd me and then drop the net over and over literally right where I was casting.

I first warned him and gave him a chance to relocate his operation. When he ignored me and kept doing it is when I started to walk at him while pointing and yelling to GTFO or I will “toss you in the fucking water, you mother fucker!”

He scurried off with eyes like saucers, as he thought about life and death. My buddy, beer in hand, was laughing up a storm and eventually called me off as I began to walk him down lol

It can get brutal on the Skyway with crowds, most people can stay in their lane but this guy went too far with having zero regard for others.

 

So, when I was a gr0M, I was on the beach beside Avalon pier. I was probably 8 or 9. Still on a bodyboard. I loved fishing and fished off pier and beach with my dad. I was always watching the fisherman while I was playing in the shore pound.

One day the whole family was down there chilling and I look up and point at some dude standing on the top of rail at end of pier. He basically tipped over and went in. I remember it was an onshore day and ocean rescue had to pull him out...he was drunk.

Ocean rescue brought him out right in front of us. He was a mess. He lived but he had a death wish!

 

No disrepeck. Every surfer I’ve met from NC has actually been cool AF.

 

fly to lax or San
Crash on an Airbnb couch and demo a board from a surf shop for the weekend.