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If I was fishing from the pier and saw divers, I would be worried about them getting hooked or tangled, not trying to hook them. I have cut the lines of a few fishermen that hooked my flag while I was diving. If one of them hooked me on purpose, I would be tempted to cut something else. I would probably at the very least, go find him/her and break their pole.
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Sounds familiar! Last time Jenny and I were out we ventured too close and they hooked my flag and dragged me to the surface before I could even let out line. Good thing we were shallow.
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Originally Posted by Sperbonzo
ScubaJenny was too light and had to fin around pointing down to try to stay under, as well as trying to pry up a rock to keep her down; my brand new mask, that had fit so well in the shop, was leaking constantly and had to be cleared every two minutes;
and then the piece de resistance....
So we swim out to the second reef, then go north and end up on past the north side of the pier. So now we turn South West from that point and start heading back towards the general direction of Hibiscus. All of the sudden I feel a jerk on the line to my flag float. I look back and realize that my line has been CUT! I swim back up to it (we were only about 9 feet down at that moment), and when I surface I see one of the fishermen at the end of the pier pulling up some kind of cutting hook. They start yelling at me right away.
"Hey, what the hell are you doing this close to the pier you *******?"
So I ask them if they had cut my line, and they answer, "Hell yeah, we cut it. You aren't supposed to be around here you #%$^&*#^!"
:shakehead
I'm seeing a common denominator here...... :11:
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Just have some restriction on them of where. Or even when to fish. Could even close the part on the end (so divers can dive under the pier) and the part of the reef on the south side. Like I said before, Ft Laurdale has one of the finest reefs (closes to shore) in the lower Unite States. If someone (group of locals, The dive shop close by or someone) It would be, I bet the only Pier that shares to both divers and fishermen. I do love the 2nd line (reef), and have been to the 3nd line (Long Swim!)
My wife and I have been rolled on the return, in the surf. We have gotten good at putting our fins on in the surf. Sometimes, I put a couble extra pounds of lead on, let all the air out and crawl on the bottom for a while, then put fins on. Stairs on the end would be Great!
Jeff
Pier fisherman are definatley a different breed, they are usually poor, pathetic, uneducated losers, they sit getting hammered by the sun and with their beer, and out of their jealousy, think its ok to attack divers and boaters.
Sperbonzo,
They are LUCKY they didn't cut MY line, they would have been thrown into the water and their poles chucked in as well, then they can try and "dive" to recover them. Or if I wasn't in that kind of a mood, I would have at least called the police, and made sure they would be paying for the damage.
VR24.. admirable as it is to confront them. It is a little logistically difficult since we were in the water, and they on the pier.. a 10ft+ height difference, and we were at a distinct disadvantage in any confrontation.
Last edited by Scuba_Jenny; February 16th, 2007 at 09:35 AM.
You know, maybe we should put bubble watchers on the pier. When they start the casting, hike them up by their britches and flip them over the rail.. Ohhhhhh.. looks like someone else is in the water.... lets throw lead at him and try to hook that guy... he shouldn't have been dumb enough to have fallen over the rail anyway.
Better yet, a note to Ocean Watch about the lack of desire to clean around the peirs that these inbred, knuckle dragging, overhanging forehead, big eared, monobrowed, slack jawed booger, pickin morons with their $4.50 case of beer insist on being so inhospitable at if someone should be currented off course from where they believe themselves to be. It hurts their cause when 40 divers dont show up to pull out 3000# of trash these high class individuals insist on sharing with the waters..
VR24.. admirable as it is to confront them. It is a little logistically difficult since we were in the water, and they on the pier.. a 10ft+ height difference, and we were at a distinct disadvantage in any confrontation.
Obviously you take care of this AFTER you get out of the water.
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