Pulling a gun on anyone is BAD NEWS! All that will do is inflame tempers until someone blows up and does something real foolish. No fish, I repeat, No fish is worth getting shot over. Some of these bozos don't even know what they have done; yet other knows full well what the game is. The trouble with the situation is that no one has broken any laws by doing what these guys did to you!

Etiquette, now that a whole different ball game. Like it has been said, the best thing to do is TALK to these jerks first, if that doesn't get the problem resolved, then get their boat numbers, and boat make and post it on this BB. If it's a guide boat that doing it, report it to the local game officer. He can't do a whole lot about it either, but he can make life a little more miserable for the guide, i.e. check his entire boat for hidden fish (little things along that line) when he comes in each time.

If it was guide, little things like that will make his clients think twice about going fishing with him again. Sometimes, just putting the old note on the jerks windshield will get the job done. He (the jerk) knows that you know what rig he is now driving, and the old "fear" takes hold. He knows that 2 flat tires is real bad news. No one really likes leaving their boat alone to get 2 tires repaired. I am not saying to do this, but its a lot better then pointing a gun at someone.

Every time I see a fisherman carrying a gun on his side when he is out fishing in places like the Cowlitz, I say to myself, there is one real insecure screwed up JERK! I go out of my way NOT to give him any help!! If he was fishing in the L.A. River, that may be different story. One thing we don't want to do is to turn our fishing areas into a "war zones".

Cowlitzfisherman,

Is the taste of the bait worth the sting of the hook????