Every night I fight the traffic on my way home, with the only relief at this time of year is a cold beer in the fridge, and seeing some fisherman in the Puyallup. This tells me that there must be some fish around finally. So I get up this last Saturday and head down there off of River Road, you know that "really" secret" spot to hit it for a couple hours while the wife and kid are still asleep. It is the first time I have fished this river in 4 and a half years living here. I walk out on the bar, behind a man and his son, and kindly wait for them to choose their water, and move a good 100 yards down from them. I step out in the water just below knee deep and start fishing my way down river. I see a few fish roll and soon I see a man (kid, I think) and his father fishing from the other side. I figure I don't want to bother them and start to walk into more shallow water and down away from where they were casting. Sure enough, this guy starts YELLING at me, saying I am walking on HIS fish! I am just shocked, but act as childish as him and get in a yelling match across the river. I walk down from him and say to myself, "Self, ('cause that's what I call myself) what is this guy's problem? There is about 9 miles of water from the sound up to the HWY 161 bridge, and this guy wants to complain about this 50 yard stretch of water, FROM THE OTHER SIDE! Now I am the kind of guy that feels like if I don't catch a damn fish, but don't see another person the whole morning, it is STILL a good day of fishing. I don't like the combat of Blue Creek, did it once, and only once, and will keep at least 100 meters of distance from any other person on the shore, but this guy had such an attitude!
So, I ask the board, what is PC on the river? Do you just crowd in and figure you have every right as that guy? Do you just pass up the hole? Do you think that if someone is fishing across the river from you that he is invading your space?
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We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready to exercise extreme violence on those that would harm us.
-George Orwell