Combat Fishing on the Columbia

[AKBASSKING]

As I turned the corner from the marina, this is what I saw. Some of these boatman do not have VHF radios or a chart as some of them (lets call them idiots) are anchored in the shipping channel! A few days ago down river and around the corner a ship hit a recreational fisherman's boat and sent it to the bottom of the Columbia River. The Coast Guard had to fetch him out of the water with a helo! Today a small cutter and inflatables were patrolling the channel making several folks in the pic below to pull their anchor and get out of the channel!

 

[wyrman]

Holy smokes!

 

[Pyrojodge]

Yep, three types of boaters...

1. Power
2. Sail
3. Fishermen


I have the same issues here. They are busy fishing in the channel not realizing they are taking up the entire thing. I have done everything but fire my flare gun at them. Very frustrating.

The other thing I hate is early in the morning they will fish right out side of my bunk and have actually bounced their lures off my boat. Bunch of A-holes if you ask me.

 

[Gofirstclass]

That's when you want to just get almost on plane so the wake is huge, and be sure to give 'em a friendly wave when you pass by.

You should see it on the downstream end of Bonneville Dam with the fish are running. It's wall to wall with fishing boats.

 

[fwebster]

That is a common problem here, particularly when tourists are in town during the summer. It isn't at all uncommon to hear a 300 ft coastal freighter on his horn as some guy in a 16 ft center console drags his lines across the channel right in front of the freighter. We just drive around them.........


I am convinced that fishermen have an extra idiot gene in their physiology that makes them do seriously stupid stuff the first week of fishing season and the last week of summer.

 

[MarkNewbie]

We have red and green bouys that mark the channel in/out of the marina. Cannot count how many times I have seen a bass boat sitting in between them fishing. When you go by them they give you those blank red-neck stare downs that tell you they don't have a clue. LOL

 

[tdschafer]

I see the same crap here too! I love when you're trying to head out of the inlet and all of these tard's are drifting in the churning waters trying to catch whatever and sh!tting up the whole channel. I don't understand why they don't get ticketed. It seems to me that they are creating a ridiculous navigational hazard!

 

[Pack66Dad]

That's when you want to just get almost on plane so the wake is huge, and be sure to give 'em a friendly wave when you pass by.

Hey, I thought I patented that move :smt043 although I'm sure it is MUCH more effective in your 550!