I was night fishing on Lake Washington, when a huge splash occured next to my boat.  A fish I wondered?  When another splash occured in the same area I started to look around and discovered a guy three boat docks down was throwing rocks at me.  When I asked him what the heck he was doing, he declared that I was a "peeping tom" and was looking in the windows of peoples homes!  When I told him I was night fishing he laughed and proclaimed that "fish can't be caught at night!  Everyone knows that!"  When I told him he was wrong, and that I had been night fishing this lake for years - he called me a lier and a pervert.  As he reached for another rock, I quickly and firmly informed him that my electric trolling motor could get me to his dock in seconds and that he couldn't get to his back door before I would be on him - so he decided not to throw it.  (The bluff worked) 

He then told me he wasn't going to go in until I I left.  I told him that was fine, I was going to be here until 2 or 3 in the morning and if he wanted to watch me all night that was his right.  (Fact was, I had been just about ready to leave, but after being challenged my pride decided to stay.)  What really made the evening though was when I hooked a huge squaw fish only moments later.  The moon was out and as I held the huge fish up I chuckled out loud, "You know, there some uninformed people who think you can't catch fish at night.  Imagine that."  He melted back into the shadows and slipped back into his house.  Enough said.  It was the only time I was glad to catch a squaw fish.

I may have run into the same woman that Russ and Dave ran into on Lake Washington. This is one of my prouder fishing moments, 'cause usually I'm a pushover:

I was fishing by myself on the Union Bay dock row in August. It was pretty hot out, so I was wearing shorts and a t-shirt. I was mainly skipping weightless lures under docks and doing pretty well until I came up to a dock about halfway down the dock row. This dock had a sprinkler mounted on the edge of it, and as I skipped a senko under the dock it turned on and started spraying water at me. I positioned the boat away from the water while my lure was still soaking. I looked up at the house and there was this lady standing in the window waving at me. Apparently, she has a switch that controls the sprinkler from the house. I was thinking to myself, "Wow. Some people are un-f'ing-believable." This was in one of those multi-million dollar Lake Washington homes!!!

As luck would have it, I finally pulled up on my bait and had a fish on! It was about a one pound largemouth, not that big, but good enough to keep me there! I slinked away from the dock, put on my full rain gear, and proceeded to fish her dock for another twenty minutes in the range of the sprinkler. I was cracking up the whole time. I wish I would have had a video of it.

Sorry to hear your story, J. I hope that fish comes back and bites for ya soon!

Glenn,
  Funny thing is, it's probably true if it's coming from Chris!!!!  Uncle Chris, I agree with Glenn, THAT'S FUNNY RIGHT THAR!

Some of these stories are good reasons why it is important to have a CWCP and exercise your right to utilize it.

Smitty

Matt -  Ya it really sucked because this BIG tank did not have lock jaw.  She would nose down etc and was catchable.  In two weeks I will be applying for my CWP and after talking to a couple of officers, will be heading down to the local precinct and filing a complaint.