Anchored or not anchored

[Long_Rod_Silvers]

For me, if I'm running into these scenarios, I'm not fishing in the right spots. If I wanted to worry about proper etiquette, I'd head to Portland and ask They/Them for a soy latte in a tiny cup and hold my pinky out just right.

Don't mean to be a stickler here, but....if we're talking etiquette, it's not a "tiny" soy latte. I believe appropriate etiquette dictates that it is either "8 oz." or "short". Appropriate ordering etiquette involves using the providing companies predetermined size lingo.

For example: "Hi, I'd like a short caramel crunch frappuccino with heavy cream, seven pumps of dark caramel sauce, double frapp chips, five pumps of frappuccino roasted coffee, extra salted butter, extra ice and a pump of the honey blend, please". They'd totally get that. But if you used the word "tiny" instead of "short".....you're going to get crickets. I know this because I asked for a "small" drip coffee at a starbucks recently and the barista looked at me like I had ordered the worlds most complicated drink....despite the person before me ordering something very similar to afore mentioned caramel drink.

 

[BDD]

Over the last few years I have come to find solitude so much more rewarding than when I was younger, to the point that I am fishing less but planning trips in a way that minimizes the amount of anglers I see (see attached photo). Yeah, courtesy goes a long way with avoiding conflicts, like communicating that was also mentioned. As much as my wife would love for me to go out and catch some coho for the table, I almost loath the thought of participating in harvest fisheries anymore for this very reason. Lake fishing, small stream fishing, destination fishing, and remote-area fishing as opposed to harvest salmon/steelhead fishing have become more my thing. Of course having access to a number of different boats and a shuttle driver; I understand not everybody has those options. But I'm guessing most on this forum have access to at least a float tube or a pair of legs.

In the event that I find myself in an awkward situation where there is a question of "who got there first" or "who's method trumps another", I find it useful to concede to the other party/angler and find somewhere else to fish. In two trips to AK and BC this year, 3 of the 4 trips there wasn't anybody else around and for the Kenai trip which saw plenty of other anglers, fortunately there is plenty of space to spread out and let folks fish how and where they want to without conflict.

More specifically to the OP's question, this might be a new etiquette that will need to sort itself out over time. My ignorance will manifest itself with this next part but I don't even know what "spot lock" is? I assume that it is a feature on new trolling motor technology that keeps the boat positioned in the same spot? If that is the case, things sure are more complicated than the old days when if you got to a run to swing through and somebody was already there, you waited until they had fished through and started at the top, above the angler that was already there.

 

[Chadk]

Don't mean to be a stickler here, but....if we're talking etiquette, it's not a "tiny" soy latte. I believe appropriate etiquette dictates that it is either "8 oz." or "short". Appropriate ordering etiquette involves using the providing companies predetermined size lingo.

For example: "Hi, I'd like a short caramel crunch frappuccino with heavy cream, seven pumps of dark caramel sauce, double frapp chips, five pumps of frappuccino roasted coffee, extra salted butter, extra ice and a pump of the honey blend, please". They'd totally get that. But if you used the word "tiny" instead of "short".....you're going to get crickets. I know this because I asked for a "small" drip coffee at a starbucks recently and the barista looked at me like I had ordered the worlds most complicated drink....despite the person before me ordering something very similar to afore mentioned caramel drink.

See, that right there is why we can't have nice things!!

Seriously though, I'm jones'n for a grande pumpkin spice latte with a pump of carmel sauce now

 

[Dustin Chromers]

Every inconsiderate angler I’ve ran into in SW WA is too old to fit into a new generation of fishers. Actually the experience is just the opposite.

When I say generation I mean the modern state of affairs as angling goes. Plenty of older entitled guys out there as well. People of all ages can be ignorant of courtesy or plain don't care. Generation is a poor choice of words on my part. "The modern angling populace" better states my point.

 

[FinLuver]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ THIS ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

It's not hard to be polite. In fact, I'd argue it's more work to be an asshole....

Not if you are proficient at it…

 

[Old406Kid]

Not if you are proficient at it…

Agreed, some just seem to have that natural ability.

 

[SSPey]

As a fisherman with a spot lock on his front trolling motor I have wondered does using my spot lock constitute anchored or just position fishing?

I have been reading that drift fisherman while boat drifting, sometimes let their path get too close to spotlocked fisherman who become upset. They state that I am anchored here.

Thinking about this situation, I believe without anchor rope out to an anchor then attached to a boat you are technically not anchored. You are a position fisherman.

So who has the courtesy right of way for the spot two fisherman in different boats want to fish?

Even if one of the boats is drifting, shouldn't they still have some sort of boat control so they can avoid collision problems.

I know (all) boats are to do what is necessary to avoid a collision but what is the courtesy rule?

I have never heard of this term … position fishing … and I’m not saying who is right or wrong, but if someone wanted to argue on the water about being anchored vs position fishing as an explanation for not moving, I’m thinking it’d be a pretty bad start to the conversation

 

[_WW_]

I asked for a "small" drip coffee at a starbucks recently and the barista looked at me like I had ordered the worlds most complicated drink

I never have that problem when I get my gas station coffee.

Not if you are proficient at it…

So one day at work the electrician comes stomping across the room cussing up a storm in a voice as loud as a freight train. Concerned, I asked him what the problem was.
"Nothin'...just practicing."

 

[Peyton00]

Referring to mean people:

There has to be a correlation between their internal personal review and the way people are treated.
Rotten on the inside.....rotten on the outside.

 

[Mossback]

So one day at work the electrician comes stomping across the room cussing up a storm in a voice as loud as a freight train. Concerned, I asked him what the problem was.
"Nothin'...just practicing."

I've done that, always good for a laugh on the jobsite...