08-31-2011, 04:49 PM
I was pretty far down the river up near Lower Mesa falls last year, walking down the river. I had seen a couple drift boats and have never had any problems sharing some of the better holes with them since there is plenty of water and usually not many boats. Well I was standing near the top of one hole fishing the riffle and here comes a guy that I kid you not pulled about 3 feet right out in front of me and dropped anchor. I usually have a pretty calm head about me but all I said was " Are you serious?". This guy flew off the handle at me and told me some crap that he thought he had taken me on a guided trip or something and that I was walking the river fishing out all his holes so he felt it was his right to pull in front of me for his lively hood. I have never been on a guided trip for one but I basicly told him in the nicest words I could find that he was dumb. I stepped a little ways down below him and made him look fairly bad out fishing him and I guess it was a client. So with competition being much less on that stretch of river I was on, I can see the SF having a bunch of asses thinking they are owed something for being guides or long time fisherman through that stretch.
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