Was I justified?

Group: rec.outdoors.fishing.bass Date: Wed, Jun 29, 2005, 10:30am
(CDT+1) From: (alwaysfishking)
I was camping these past few days at a State park. Well Saturday morning
comes and I head out to the lake for some early morning fishing.
=A0=A0As I am fishing a particular shoreline and I see this bass boat
coming behind me from the other side of the lake. Two guys pull up and
go right in front of me, maybe 50-75 feet away. I yell over to the guy
that I'm fishing here and that maybe there's somewhere else he wants to
try. He responds with. "Are you fishing a tournament?" =A0 "No" I reply.
He states " Well we are and we won't get in your way, we're just gonna
work our way down" =A0 again I voice my displeasure at his inabiltiy to
grasp the concept that I'm fishing there. He ignores me now and
continues to keep fishing. I put down the rod and troll in front of him
about 20 yards ahead to a laydown tree in the water. Cast my speedworm
to the outer limbs and feel a solid thump, I set the hook and get into a
nice fish, I boat a nice 2.5 lb bass, hold it up and yell this one would
be a good tournament fish huh guys?, then release it and motor away. A
few comments I could not make out from the duo but I didn't care I was
happy. The boater seemed a little more than upset.
Question: Was I right in doing what I did? Or should I have trolled to a
different location considering I wasn't in a Tournament. What would you
have done. One suggestion was to try and see what I could snag from
their deck with my lures. What are the groups thoughts? I would do it
again in a heartbeat.
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
I'm sure you were justified in the action you took. Maybe in my younger
days I would have reacted the same way, but as the years go by, I now
avoid conflct...I've fought my wars !

Now days, discretion is the better part of valor for me....I would have
just motored on out of there to quieter waters....and went fishin!

John