oh yeah and you can pack a gun while fishing even without your cwp...but you have to have it out in the open.

and that right there although legal is just asking for problems...not my the law but from fellow fisherman.

not many people are comfortable with guns just being out in the open in places where they arent really needed. and fishing really isnt one of them to have a gun just displayed.

BUT you would get all your fishing spots lmfao

i know that if a big kitty put me on the menu, i'd likely never see it coming until it's too late, anyway. if worse came to worse, i do keep a very sharp tactical knife in the pocket of my vest for a last ditch scenario. hope it never comes to that though.

the only nasty confrontation with 2 legged vermin i've had was this past summer with some hack guide that decided to drop his kicker and pull bait divers in front of me on a 50' wide section of river while i was fishing.

i've never really felt the need to carry, i wouldn't be opposed from bringing a rifle in some areas i fish, though.

I know all to well the kind of scum that haunt secluded spots and act predatory when they think they have someone poor guy outnumbered or outmuscled. So yes, I carry, but I keep it concealed. No sense in them playing nice then running back to their rig to raise the ante. I'd rather them show their stripes before the cards are laid down.
Best plan I have is to take their keys and cellphones, toss em in the river, and beat feet.

2ND Amendment...........the right of the PEOPLE to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

It is funny to me that people don't want to carry a gun.

The US Supreme Court will hear a 2nd Amend case, 1st time since 1939, about the individuals right to bear arms. If they don't gives us back our right to carry our guns without worry, they will cause our founding fathers to turn in their graves.

Do I pack heat when I fish? HA! Charlton Heston said it for me, "From my cold, dead hands."

The guys cooking meth on logging roads might have guns, I might as well have one too.

I have never found it necessary to pack a gun with me while fishing.
However I do have a concealed rod permit and I pack this little baby with me whenever I go hunting.

Never packed a weapon on the OP. No need in my oppinion and jsut asking for trouble. Now when I am river fishing in AK that is a different thing. The thought there is never leave home without it. I guess cats are a worry here but I know an old lady(70 years) that beat one off with a walking stick. If she can manage that I should be able to defend myself with a knife or stick.........unless he jumps on my back and the gun would make no matter anyway.
Besides, if you had a gun you would have that desire to shoot many of those idiots on the river that so desperately deserve it.

You bet I do .



I don't want to get cold toes.

Never even occured to me that I might need to.

No,but have thought about it alot in the past two/three years.Good luck,
STRIKE ZONE

I was fishing a hole in Gold Bar that has a trail that leads out to it that is sponsered by Trout Unlimited well marked and fenced on both sides. Myself and a buddy had walked out there to fish and had been there about a half hour when a crazy older man came out of a house brandishly waving around
a two shot Daringer. He was yeliing that we had walked through his yard and were trespassing.

I did not have my pistol with me, but have a concealed weapons permit.

Adrenalin is an amazing thing! You know the fight or flight syndrome.
Well my buddy was flying and I was fighting. I yelled in my most fearful voice. "If you miss I'm going to shove the gun up you A$%!" Ok before you reply I was scared and wasn't thinking clearly. It worked and he went inside.
I went to the Gold Bar Police station and sat there for over an hour waiting for a King County officer to show because it was on the South side of Hwy 2.

I don't know if anything ever got done about it but they new the guy and had issues with him before.

Ok, so what I'm trying to get at is, if I had my pistol with me what would have happened? I honestly think it would have ended bad!

I only pack heat if I eat those burritos from the Mexican restaurant or too many green peppers and anchovies at Chicago Roo's.

You and Vhawk.

Actually, I think Vhawk get's his ammo from a Kwiki-Mart.

Ugh.

Dang, green peppers and anchovies?? Hope you were fishing alone that day!

Yes and no. I do have a CWP. I usually have something hidden in the car and have it handy if spending the night somewhere with boat and gear out. I don't leave anything in the car when in tweaker country. You can guess if I have it ready, or left it home.

My looks usually scares the $pit out of anyone willing to cause a problem. if not my looks, the way I swing my fishing rod should.

Steve

Camping, all the time. Fishing, twice. Unfortunately we have tweaker prob's down here as well - the game refuge on the Feather river is a spot where stolen cars get stripped and dumped, among other things. I would never let anyone know I had a gun - the only reason to pull it out is to kill. I make sure to have a buddy with me and that's good enough for piece of mind while fishing.

Happy trails, Mike

I may have done the same thing, HOWEVER: What your friend did is illegal. It's called assault with a deadly weapon. If you have a CWP, then you are licensed to carry a CONCEALED weapon. The second it is not concealed, you had better be firing it in defense of your life, or you could go to jail. I have heard more than one story of a person being arrested under these conditions. Telling someone that you are "packing" is the same thing as a threat.

...Certainly not worth going to jail for "threatening" a tweaker!

That's why I don't carry. I am licensed too, but I seldom, if ever, do.

If I ever have to pull a gun on someone, they are dead. Or, at least shot at.

Really bad things happen to those who kill people.

Even if it was "justified", the odds of you getting a civil suit slapped against you is, well, damn near 100%. Last thing I want is my financial "fate" determined by a "jury of my peers."

Never mind the trouble you will be in if there is even the HINT that the killing was not 100% justified.

I would not do well in prison. I'd have to have "BITCH" tatooed to my forehead, and that would NOT be cool!

Way too many bad things can happen. I don't like bad things happening to me.

Personally, I just try to avoid those situations. Run away. Hand over my wallet, etc.

I like the odds of me NOT dying by violent criminals.

Sorry Hohbomb but reread the orig post, the guy continued coming on even after he had been ___warned___that the guy was armed. I give the guy credit for not killing the dumbarse, really lucky guy. I just pack a 12 gauge when I am out and about. Gives me peace of mind.

"Nobody move, or the snigger gets it!"---Blazzing Saddles