what a f*@kin dickhead, you shoulda just threw a jig straight into his eye lol, thats stupid aye i woulda thrown a flare into his boat haha

Post the photo!!

This is the way things are going ,maybe you were on his spot ,he could have been cursing you , thinking you my have pinged him at some stage. I move as soon as i see a boat coming saves the agro .as there are a lot of boats that drive from boat to boat ,as they now nothing themselves.

I dont meen to sound rude but, is it possible he had done exploration in the area also and you both happened to be there on the same day??

It has happened to me before.

Go to your favourite spot and theres someone sitting right on top of it.

Even 25 miles off shore!

post the photo! name n shame! name n shame!

not good. nothing can realy be done about these sort of things, yes it could of been a spot he had on his gps or he did ping you but curtosy should have been there and stayed away from you.

This is not the first time I have heard of similar stories, was the idiots name on the water or sea floor, tell him to eff next time.

Jim.

It's like a dog or a cat laying it's mark. Others will follow and there is no claim to territory I am afraid. maybe the pinger was the original pisser? So why do the youngies here say post the pic? Just get over it.

Same thing happens on the beach and lack of tollerence can often result in a blue. Sorry mate.. shit happens.

dont put all us youngies in the same boat please trigger!

Post the pic mate I think anyone will mind?

Spot on Kane.

that pisses me off too
if there's someone on a mark , go elsewhere
there's plenty of ocean

Bit hard to get up and move when the picks been set and the berley trail established.

What boat are you saying should move?

If everyone is at a comfotable distance then what's the hassle? If things get too close well then I guess it comes down to personalities and arrogance for the pricks who decide to muscle in. Life is all about respect for others. Sure; there are some real wankers around. At 40 meters in a swell it's kind of frustrating but gives the chance to bang chests without incident. On the beach it's different. Again, remember that we all like to get to our favourite spots but sometimes we have to find another. Stay smart and safe guys.

For me if someone anchors or drifts a couple hundred metres away, no problem. But i'm not a massive fan of having been anchored, set a berley trail and maybe catching something, only to have someone come that (30-50 odd metres) close to me. Not in a big area like FFB or say he 3 mile stretch.

I think you have to be prepared to move on if someone is already on a spot you like, having said that, if it is a bigger site what distance apart at anchor is "cool". 30m , 50m, 100m????

Even more so when a boat is displaying a dive flag. Nothing quite as surprising as seeing a bit of lead and bait fly past you. Some guys must think that fish are exhaling to make all the bubbles on the surface.

Had a boat set up right on top of a kayakers anchor/anchor rope yesterday morning ,kayaker was not on any special spot just general ground,,no other boats within a mile of them either.

I would like to see the photo because their is a serial offender in that area,,the boat has been pictured on another site up to the same tricksand theirs a few reports from other guys about him.

Now thats just crap.
got to give the yakkers some space.
There doing it hard enough as it is..
LOL

Less than 20 metres is illegal and would be getting reported if this happened to me. its about respect though and if you dont have any towards me, karma will step in and reign supreme. sounds like you had fun anyway and but sorry bout the prick tease..

Ha Ha we have had pingers too.  Funny though because we just have a fish around. They probably thought they had  pinged themselves a great spot. 

Hubby gets a bit upset if they park themselves so close that they are in our anchor swing.  It means we have to shorten the anchor rope and possibly drag a bit in the current.

if they anchor that close they derserve to have their boat hit , not with your boat either , a nice sharp jab to the side with the gaff . plenty of ocean so why come so close especially when you have a yak on anchor. no respect

 Put up a dive flag even if you are just fishing- most people will give you a wide birth and if they dont start yelling about the safety of the people in the water

I guess thats why I love going out during the week, you can be out all day and only see one boat, on the move and off in the distance. The only time I have had problems is on the weekend, and then I had to laugh as the bottom wasnt anything special, I was just drifting while I sorted out my gear.

Wow, it seems we have all been the subject of this sort of activity however, having been on holiday (Phuket) for the last couple of weeks and only returning last week I have only just caught up with all the posts on the site generally whilst I have been away. Having done so I must say it causes me concern that I see personal attacks on the views of some web site members..........we are a family here, we are ALL entitled to a view / opinion and what makes this web site so different from several others I could mention has been the real spirit of comradarie (??spelling) so evident here and the willingness to help others new to the game. With that in mind I will not post the photo, if he is a site member then he knows who he was as there were so few on the water yesterday.

Let us keep this site positive and friendly which was what drew me to it in the first place ........coincidences do happen, we might indeed have been in a spot he had previously found and marked himself, the back of FFB has some brilliant structure but it is isolated so perhaps it is not such an unusual circumstance. I personally would never have anchored so close to another craft but that's my ethical approach, I suppose they might have thought two streams of burley were better than one. Again thanks for the responses -it further evidences the quality of people that enjoy this site

Disregard the boat on a yakker comment,seems the boat ws doing a drift in the same area as its a good spot for him,,in the pre gloom dawn he thought the yakker was drifting as well as could not see any anchor rope,(still darkish) called out to the yakker a couple times to ask if he was drifting also but got no reply ,,as he got closer he realised the kayaker was in a fixed position and moved off,,,perfectly good explantion, alway two sides of the story.

Just commenting, but most people have more than 1 spot to fish.

If someone is in close proximity to a spot im heading to, i head to another spot. Just common curtesy.

I think occurences like this are all too common these days. But hopefully airing them online may well educate a few as to what is deemed common courtesy.
Personally it makes my blood boil when boats bee line me from afar in the middle of the ocean, then follow me to the next spot as I move away. Not much I can do about it other than to keep moving.

The only defence is to keep exploring and find lots of alternate spots to fish.

Sure some may be better than others, but by spreading the effort around you give your best spots a chance to recover and if I see someone on or close to one of my spots I make a big detour and fish somewhere completely different. If I am desperate to fish that particular spot I might head past on the way back in and if nobody is around I will fish it.

The worst offender so far pinged me from 5 metres away and had the cheek to say "Hi guys, our gps is busted, are you catching any around here?" as he watched us put a 20kg plus Dhuie into the esky.

yeah i had one come and circle me out in the 200m mark, and i guess because his sounder couldnt read the bottom. Circled only 15m from us. watching and waiting to see what we pulled up.

yep we got pissed!!

Was fishing off a beach with a mate down from Margaret River when spotted a light on a three wheeler bike come down the track then turn towards where we were.Quickly we buried our fish [2xgood mullas and a shark just leaving a few herring out.Sure enough it was who we thought it would be,he stopped and asked how we were going stating "we wouldn't tell him anyway and probably buried the fish so he couldn't see them".How right he was,parked right on top of them.
We told him after the weigh in for the comp what we'd done,he was pissed as he'd gone some 2 miles further away and caught nothing worth weighing in

So what are we supposed to do at a spot like the D9?

Bit different at an isolated well known spot, to a big area such as the whole FFB or 3 mile reef system i reckon.

This is a really interesting thread and excuse me for having some input on several occasions. Personally, at times, I am a really agro bastard so to speak and I have experienced similar problems many a time. As I have posted before I think the best way for me now is to abuse and run so to speak. The bad experience posted here originally to create this thread is another example of how life is, not just on the water. There are a lot of inconsiderate wankers out there and let's face it; it makes for a great group discussion over way too many beers to come up with a fix for this. LOL.

Vince,
I concur with your comments, maybe as we go through our age group we see things in a far different light.

Jim.