Jerk of the Summer Academy Awards

July, 2003

OK bass fishermen, this one is definitely up there with jerk of the summer academy awards. Yes, these are the special ones, probably dropped on their heads as kids. Too many drugs during the 80's... a candle short special. Joe X and I were chunking with clams at one of the bridges. I had a good clam slick going and we were on our sixth bass (of course, we released all of them on circle hooks). When all of a sudden, up pops a scuba diver with a spear gun... and another... and another. Forty feet off the back of our boat. These so special gentlemen had swam over two hundred yards from there boat without any diving markers. And beyond that, they were right in our slick which is beyond words from yours truly. They could have been blended by our boat and it would have been their fault. And personally, I wouldn't have shed a single tear. So I'm screaming at this guy with a short speared striper, "Dude, what the hell are you doing in my slick and where the heck is your marker?" So he gives me the finger and says that favorite line, "I can go anywhere I want, it's a free ocean." Sure you can dude, but there is a thing called fishing etiquette, you don't spear fish behind a boat chumming, with in reason. This was way beyond reason, this was wrong. And scuba diving in a fisherman's slick, right off his boat, is insane. Lobstermen in Maine just get that rifle out and shoot you for stupidity. I can't do that, at least not in broad daylight! And then you have to hide the bodies... takes the whole night to dispose the bodies and all. To get to the point, they spooked the bass obviously, and when we left Joe had to calm me down, I just couldn't get over their stupidity.

 

 

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