Fishing Report

Date	April 26
Location	Spoils, Wilson Bridge, Ft. Washington
Water Temp	57
Visibilty	1 foot

Spent the morning in the Wilson Bridge area. My partner caught 3 dinks and 1 barely 15" on Caronlina Rig in the spoils and off the barges out front. I caught 2 keepers (including one in the 2.5-3 lb range) from Ft. Washington Marina in the afternoon.

The weather was kinda nasty first thing in the morning -- nothing like rain in your face at 60mph to wake you up. Apart from that it was a pretty good day.

Well, it was good except for all of the ignorant peckerwoods who think that it's okay to just motor right on into your spot. And then do their best to block you out of it. I was fishing the barges out in front of the spoils. I was the only boat there and had been for at least 1/2 an hour, probably longer. My partner caught a fish and as I was helping him land it and retie (he doesn't fish much) a couple of peckerwoods came roaring into my spot and proceeded to catch my fish. Bastards. And when I started trying to move back into it they kept casting right between me and the place I had been fishing. There is no way in hell that they could have failed to know that I was fishing that spot. I guess in Peckerwoodia that's how you fish. Assholes.

I don't mind sharing, really. I'm perfectly willing to allow someone else access to whatever I'm fishing, provided they don't try to hog it. There are plenty of peckerwoods out there that don't feel that way though. When you're fishing a community hole (and are there any other kind on the Potomac?) you don't own it just because you got there first. When another boat comes in and gives you ample room to keep fishing don't start getting snippy with them. The next peckerwood that starts casting between me and my target is likely to take a rattle trap to the head.

Another set of morons did something else that I really hate. Have you ever been trolling or motoring towards a particular spot -- one you've been waiting on to open up -- and have somebody see you heading for it, pull up their trolling motor and go racing into it? That burns me up. You couldn't have gone before? You had to wait until I was heading for it? Ass nuggets.

Ignorant peckerwoods aside it was a pretty good day. My partner had fun and caught some fish. And after executing poorly all morning I was still able to stick a couple good ones before the day was over. It's just too bad there's not a minimum IQ requirement to be allowed on the water.

Posted by John at April 27, 2003 12:58 PM