Just got home from fishing the Cowlitz all day. At around ten AM I was backtrolling a plug and a driftboat was anchored in the exact center of the slot below Blue creek. No big deal, I thought, I will just go out around him. I pulled over to go around him and just when my plug was about fifty or seventy-five feet past him he heaves his drift gear upriver across my line. Now it did not manage to get tied up with my plug (I don't know how) but he would not have cared. About an hour later he hot holed me twice in a row. I made up my mind that if he did manage to get tied up with me, I would just pull up the kicker, start the pump and motor down river w/ his gear. I am confident that my braid would have won that fight. It did not happen. The cast-across did tweak me for a bit. I guess there are obvious consequences for not demanding manners and civility in our day to day lives. Had it happened AFTER I realized that I had once again been skunked perhaps I would have made a comment............Fishing is not nearly as relaxing with an empty punchcard........better day tomorrow........