How about showing some courtesy out there!

[PURPLE FEVER]

Last night we were an hour into our drift, on the 00 and the 48 when a another boat goes by and stops 300ft outside of me. I shine the spotlight on him and tell him its an offshore drift could he move before he puts lines out. The googan giggles like a little girl and says" we want to watch you miss fish, and besides we are only going to be out a few hours".WE IGNORED THEM , later on AFTER PUTTING A FISH IN THE BOAT ,we could clearly see every ballon on his spread. Having no other choice we cleared our lines and moved to get away from this Richard Cranium. You might have guessed, while resetting our lines here comes this a-hole and he sets up just offshore of me again. I guess he watched us catch our next fish before we went in at 10:00.I would expect this on a weekend, BEWARE the ignorant googans are out every night.

[hannaman]

I wouldn't put with that garbage. I would of run his lines over.

[jerry]

Hey SC, congrats on your fish x2. I got an idea for you, see if that pirate RT can lend you one of those bow mounted cannons for occasions such as these. A 10lb cannon ball may just make them move. One of the good things about fishing in Jamaica is the lack of boats we have to contend with while fishing.

[Mike]

Thats terrible.. I can put up with that stuff on the reef occasionally, but when swordfishing that can't be tolerated...

[Threesenough]

SC32- heard your conversation with that idiot last night. I was amazed you remained as profesional and calm as you did.

I could not believe how close everybody was last night. We weaved around a tight group of boats right around sunset and kept on moving to get away from the herd.

Maybe when the more consistent weather returns it will spread out the number of boatings going out over a greater part of the week. Hopefully these offenders will go back to fishing the weekends and leave the weekdays to the rest of us.

[soundownsam]

I had someone set up so close to me a few weeks ago that I could hear the clickers on reels as they fired out the spread. BTW that person has also already posted on this thread.

Sam

[Threesenough]

Sam- did you offer them a cold beverage?

BTW - I wasn't out that night! ( anyway I don't think I was), and I know I would have heard about it by now if it was me.

Dan

[hannaman]

Soundownsam : You need to post who is being ignorant out there. Teach them a lesson. When a nice fish gets on and has more than half of your spool, thats over 300 yards out. That means boats should be at least a 1000 feet away from each other.

[PURPLE FEVER]

I agree, since the guys that set up on other people probably never caught a big fish they don't have a clue to what you are saying.

[LHPfish]

I usually ask them to check my far balloons.

[LuNaSeA]

a 12 gage might scare them away i would start shoot out there ballons if they set up on me and talk $hitt i got a 26 seavee by the way ive been catching swords before there was a website about swordfishing

[PURPLE FEVER]

YOU'RE response kinda sounds like the little girl that set up on us. What kind of boat do you have?

[hannaman]

No girls on my boat.

[tunaman81]

It sucks that there are people like that out there. There is plently of ocean for everyone to drift, no reason to set up within a 1/4 of a mile of another boat. I see the same things off NJ at the Huidson canyon. Boats set up on top of each other chunking, and Ill just head away from the fleet and normally outfish them!

[RiskTaker]

We setup last night before sundown. As we got to our spot we observed that two boats were already in close proximity, 1/2 mile apart, of where we wanted to setup. So we squeezed in. Still there was probably 300 meters between us, each direction. We drifted a little ways to review our drift. We rigged up some squids in the meantime. At that point we moved up-wind and tried to balance our distance between the two boats, and make some more space before letting lines out. We figured that they were there first so go further upwind to allow them to pass over the zone first.

The distance seemed to be a little close for my complete satisfaction but is was dealt with in a courteous fashion. I think others are less considerate than that.

After dark, someone moved like only 150 yards away from us. We thought for sure they would crowd our drift, maybe outpace our drift even. But they were setting up anyway. We did not get upset: but I was thinking in my mind that they do have lots of space farther upwind and they are the ones obligated to pick up and move if they got too close. But if a fish took our far balloon and swam a circle around the boat at that distance, the fish would have swam under their tips lines for sure.

Later a boat was on plane heading for our spread. I was crinjing that the boat would not take out our far jug. He went outside but I thought that maybe he was doing a slalom course around that marker. Seemed to be very close to the jug, ie. 150 ft. But at least not between jug and our boat. Another boat buzzed our down wind beam by about 100 yards later on that evening.

It seems that sometimes people can easily crowd your boat at times. It is just a shame that it is still done when there is plenty of space between their boat and another drifting farther away. A quarter mile is about 440 yds. and 150 yds. in about a third of that distance. So think of it as 150 yds. is pressuring someone's comfort zone and a 1/4 mile sounds just about right to fish the same zone. And please let the first arrival patrol the drift first; ie. don't cut in front. Besides if you follow behind you may just pick up something that their chum line brougt in closer to investigate.

Be courteous and yield to people that are there first.

[Mike]

We didn't see too much crowding other than the usual... but there were a ton of boats with no lights on when we reset...

Mike

[Unreel]

Besides if you follow behind you may just pick up something that their chum line brought in closer to investigate

do many people chum for swordfish or are you talking about tunas

[Disco Lady]

COÑO!!!!!!!!!!

[billspilingup]

What the hell, this is three years old.

[Broadbill-Pro]

WTF? When I saw that Burt had 2 fish in ONE night I figured it must have been the Twilight Zone.

[PURPLE FEVER]

I cant believe somebody brought up that old thread! Ah the good old days

[BLUELIGHT SPECIAL]

Oh

I thought this was last week.

[NightCrawler]

nobody is fishing on top of anybody anymore...most nights its dead.