11-26-2003, 07:08 PM
I usually fish streams here in Colorado, and don't run into the problem very much.
On one occasion while on one of our Southern streams which see a lot of "fishermen" from states to the South, I was having pretty good luck at one spot when one of those visitors barged in. He started fishing no more than six or seven feet away!!
I packed up and moved forty or fifty feet upstream and started pulling trout out of that hole. Guess what? The guy was soon along side tossing his rig with that big 1/2 oz. bass sinker out to where I was drifting my crawler.
I packed up and moved back to my original spot. I pulled out and released a couple more fish and he was back at my side again!
This went on about five times with us moving back and forth between those two spots before the guy finally gave up (or lost all his hooks and sinkers) and waddled back to where ever he had come from, undoubtedly to open a can of pork and beans for dinner.
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On one occasion while on one of our Southern streams which see a lot of "fishermen" from states to the South, I was having pretty good luck at one spot when one of those visitors barged in. He started fishing no more than six or seven feet away!!
I packed up and moved forty or fifty feet upstream and started pulling trout out of that hole. Guess what? The guy was soon along side tossing his rig with that big 1/2 oz. bass sinker out to where I was drifting my crawler.
I packed up and moved back to my original spot. I pulled out and released a couple more fish and he was back at my side again!
This went on about five times with us moving back and forth between those two spots before the guy finally gave up (or lost all his hooks and sinkers) and waddled back to where ever he had come from, undoubtedly to open a can of pork and beans for dinner.
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