This may be because the muskie fraternity is smaller statewide and many of you know each other, but consider your group as a whole lucky. I base this observation on 40 years of watching salmon, walleye, and perch seasonal traffic jams and nasty space competition. The nastiest crowds are the illegal river snaggers mixed in with the shoulder to shoulder river fishers.

Musky medic, I am sure that if you were to have a decoy spread set up on Bondys point he would not troll through it. He would move into the spread and sart casting . He doesnt troll, he throws 7 ounce rubber bondy baits. The guy has no respect for others on the water. The place in question was a point on the detroit river where the rocks come out to form this current break. Will was casting in there . We waited until Will had drifted off the structure and attempted to make a short line trolling pass when Bondy passed us in a no wake zone and cut in front of us and ended up 10 inches from Wills Boat. He then hovered there for three hours while his clients caught 4 fish. Every other caster was lining up and drifting the shore line. That was by and far the rudest most unethical move Ive ever seen by another musky fisherman. We were fishing with Bob Devine that day and Bob was not one to back down. We ran an out rod almost under his boat when we passed about 10 feet from his boat. He ended up basiclly pushing Will down the shoreline. I n the parking lot after the day was over Bondy was pulling the same time we were. He offered no apology and didnt say a word to Bob. I wont even buy one of his baits. Mike and Michelle

wow..well I went through and re-read this post.
I have respect for people fishing areas, and if I do a fly by, i try to keep a very wide distance, but if there are hazards or sunken islands or something, where you have to get close to someone to move by them, I always idle by them showing the courtesy anyone would want shown to themselves.
That kind of scenario is tough to avoid, but you can do it the right way, I think we could pretty much agree on that. Other then that, unless your creeping up on a good friend to say high when it looks like he/she isn't in a fish stalking mood. Say, like when they are sittin in boat, or doing a slow bait change, whatever, you kinda get the idea. There is a proper way to do this out on the water. Now if someone decides that they were "wronged" out on the water in some manor, and feel that it was so severe of a fishing crime that they take it up with cutting your tires or doing damage to your truck, rig whatever. Well, first off that is pretty chickens**t. If anyone is going to be big and bad and want to do that, they should have the guts to wait for you to pull your boat out of the water and take issue there. I for one know that if I went up to my truck and seen someone slashing my tires or in their vehicle waiting for a reaction, well I have to say I might go as far as breaking out the glock 9mm under my seat and just shoot up their boat. Now is it wrong, of course, is it way illegal, very. But I can't honestly say what kind of emotion it would bring out of me seeing my truck, trailer ruined when i walk up to it, thinking I am just going to pull my boat out. So as far as anyone gettin so pissy out on the lake cause someone did something that was unbearable that they have to do damage to someones rig, well you shouldn't be fishing. You can either blow it off and say oh well, really. Or go fist fight. Leave all that other crap alone. Fishing is my favorite thing in the world to do. When I am out in my boat I am not worrying about anything. I'm just fishing, and there is nothing out on the water that can drive me to a point where I would snap and go absolutley crazy. because I am fishing, doing the one true thing that I enjoy the most, and I did see someone say.."it's just a friggin fish"…there are always more.

first i would have to say if i went into the detroit river and seen 40 boat trying to fish from the stone yard down past WYC i wouldnt bother trying to troll trough there,but then thats just me,i also wouldnt drop down in front of anybody,but not all club members are like that, i have had one club member go flying in between me and the weed line i was working about 10 feet,,and another club member trolling down by the bridge on sanford come close enough i could tell what kind of rods they were using.i think most people go fishing with a plan and regardless thats what they do