Middle of Nowhere & Driving WAY TOO CLOSE to the Fish House. WHY??

[Fisherman For a Lifetime]

It's happening again.

I'm out in the middle of no where, by no roads, no other shacks. There is no reason to drive anywhere near me whatsoever.

But vehicles & snowmobiles drive unnecessarily close & within 30' of my shack & truck.

WHY are people doing this? I need to know. WHY??

If this is you reading this, please...... give us room & stop driving SO close for NO reason.

/rant off.

[pushbutton]

Glitch in the matrix? Some type of alien probe project implanting mind control chips in us? Bug to the zapper thing? Walking ice dead? Some if not many people seem to have an uncontrollable urge to gravitate towards others, especially when fishing...both open and on ice. Suppose its part of the herd mentality .... possibly a pre curser to the lemmings running type thing. Fished a favorite lake of mine yesterday that is rot with this phenomenon. Houses were stacked like cordwood around two spots with a thousand acres of nearly open ice in-between. I set up well away from either camp and amazingly found fish. And yep true to form, got buzzed by the lingering strays finding their way back to the pack......some even stopped long enough to temporarily set up unnecessarily close, but after no fish in 5 minutes, kept on moving on towards the racket and commotion.

[leech~~]

Their just trying to make new friends!

I do think some people do close "drive-by's" to see if others may have their catch sitting out side the door to know what is there and biting?

I do a lot of sled and porty fishing and a ways from the crowd if I can. When I see another guy way out somewhere and want to stop to ask how it is going. I will slow way down and approach their house at just an idle from a long ways out, then park a ways away and walk over. Tap on the door or flap and softly ask how-is-it-going. I have never had someone tell me to get the F-out of here or jump out before I got there waving me off. I also don't mind when guys use the same approach to me.

The funny thing is that where I fish most of the time it will be those "dam" non-fishing snowmobilers that come flying right up to you to ask "catching any thing"!!

[gr82fish]

It's possible I might know you...your vehicle and setup look a little familiar...as I get closer and closer it appears not, but maybe you want to share one of my homebrews with me and give me your opinion on it...or not...maybe you are stuck, especially in this cold weather, since there are no roads, maybe not...maybe you put your caught fish outside, allowing me to view your 'luck', then again, maybe not...I'll never know if I don't take a swing by to satisfy my curiosity...after all, we are social animals by nature, at least most of us, anyway.

Since I fish away from the crowd myself, if I put myself in their shoes and give you responses that I have received when I've asked people in a PC way why they parked next to me, I thought I'd share them with you, to provide potential answers to your question.

[Fisherman For a Lifetime]

Yea, stop & say "Hi!" for sure!

But a fast drive-by out-nowhere makes no sense.

I had a fish ready to bite, a Truck drove close by and it took off. THAT is what's frustrating, don't you think??

[RiverChuckNorris]

My theory is these are the same folks that we see during our daily commute during the work week driving like animals, tail gating two feet off your bumper and changing lanes with no regard for theirs or others safety. All of a sudden, it gets to the weekend and they get out in open places and don't know what to do with themselves. Thus, they proceed to revert back to jerkstore weekday driving behavior!

[zero]

GPS in hand and check it out later,happened on low last year a couple times.

[elkrivermn]

It does not always work! When I Set up camp in the middle of nowhere allz by myself I will post thin ice signs 360 degrees around the house> It seems to keep 71% of people including the game wardens away. The other 29% are just plain curious and ya"ll aint gunna keem em away no matter what you do!

[water rat]

GPS in hand and check it out later,happened on low last year a couple times.

This would be my guess too! With gps and phone apps it's easy to do a drive by and see what if any structure might be there.

[Sinker]

It's simple: ignorance. And as far as looking for fish laying on the ice, do the legwork and find another productive spot.

[zero]

In the summer on low it can be really bad, a boat all by its self will get a bunch of other boats driving by looking for a pod of fish they can't find. Like sinker said they want some else to do the legwork.

[john.wells]

It seems that most people haven't evolved much past the monkey stage. Even well before the gps, idjits would buzz unbelievably close to me as well as anyone else. Just have to learn to deal with these mouth breathers...

[monger]

My portable was set up 20 feet from my truck. Had a guy roll up in his suv between house and my truck.

[Sinker]

Unreal. Can't make this stuff up. One of the reasons I don't go down to the river much anymore.

[DonBo]

Three snowmobiles between me and my truck last night, at mach speed. WTH?

[Sinker]

Three snowmobiles between me and my truck last night, at mach speed. WTH?

That's too bad. Just a mix of stupidity, rudeness and poor character.

[minky]

I fished down there a few weeks ago, lots of people. I guess there are a few bad ones in any large group.