8ft leader, I think your post hit the nail on the head (pun intended0. I to have been on both sides of the coin at one time or another. When boats need to move through an area I give them room so they don't have to go over the water I am trying to fish. sometimes they do anyway...inconsiderate but chucking lead or rocks at them won't do any good. In my boat I have anchored in places and fished right below my boat only to have bankies retie their rigs with more weight so they can try and hit me...never did but that's another point. There was no way they (the bankies) could ever fish the water I am over but that doesn't stop the epitaphs from flying. Wrongs are committed on both sides and maybe the original situation was created and initiated by the boaters but firm and polite convrsation will get you farther than violence...it would be assault!