Boat launch idiots!

My wife and I were launching our boat on North Twin, the Conover launch. If you've been there, you know that there is a great pier and an enormouse launching slab to the right of it if you are walking to the launch. Plenty of room to launch two rigs at once, maybe even three. Well this older woman is holding on to her older fishing boat on the right side of the pier. My wife and I pulled up and got our boat ready and my wife starts backing the boat waaayyy to the right of her old fishing boat.

The older gal flagged me down to tell me that there was plenty of room to launch TO THE LEFT of the pier and away from her boat. There is an area to launch there, if you have a 12 foot John boat, not a 19 foot Ranger. I tell her that we will be fine and my wife proceed to back the boat up, staying about twelve feet away from the woman and we launch.

She was looking quite nervous as I started the engine (no wind at all). Then just started chatting with me about their day on the water.

Again, not an idiot, but more like a boat launch neurotic.

http://www.bitoffun.com/video_vault/boat-launch-fun.htm

I think the only dock I've gotten a fish off of in Madison is at Tenney Park.

I see this most weekends I launch at Olin Turville in Madison...I find an open/available dock and motor right in with no regard for people fishing off the launch docks. If I run over a bobber, tough crapola. I couldn't care less about interrupting their fishing. I may have felt guilty when I was younger, but I don't have time to worry about that now. They are welcome to fish as long as it does not interfere with the purpose of those docks. Screw 'em.

12pack

you should of replied:

with that kind of money maybe you should have bought a boat launch first

I once asked one of those guys why he thought it was OK. His response? "When you spend more than $75,000 for your boat - and pay cash - you can do whatever the f--- you want".

I remember waiting for a fisherman to clean out his boat in the ramp when I was in a particular hurry. His the boat wasn't all that nice. I told him I had a small battery-powered vaccuum in my truck and asked if he wanted to borrow it....Totally clueless: "No,thanks. I'll do that at home".