08-11-2004, 07:01 PM
i fish the gorge quite regularly and i jig and my favorite is fishing with steel line. i would just like to say tothat the when you are fishing you should not get so close to those trolling to catch them while they are using steel it is very rude to need to get that close to someone else while they are fishing. i have had my encounters with the downrigger fisherman and i can assure all of you that this does and will happen. however you can cause them great problems if this bothers you as it does me. Just keep going and as you do yank and jerk your rod you can do multiple things by doing this. it will either break their ball off,tear their line up so much that it wont be usable to them or it will break the boom on the down rigger. I am not tring to sound rude but i do think that when you are out fishing that you should be courtous of others and give them there space.
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