We had a great 5 days of fishing out of Port Ontario except for the encounter with a driftboat, the theft of a rod holder off of one of my Big John downriggers and a charter out on the lake. We were fishing the same place as Buzzer and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if it was the same charter...
Not to mention any names but they wouldn't win any awards for being ((( MISS CONGENIALITY ))).... if you read between the lines it's pretty easy to figure out who I'm talking about and this is about as discreet as I will be about it.
It all started with the theft during the night of the 2rd day. the following day I realized the rod holder was missing, when I brought it to my friends attention he said that he noticed it earlier but didn't say anything because he thought I probably removed it because we weren't using the 2 inside downriggers.
That evening when we came in to port there was a driftboat without any lights sitting just inside of the breakwall fishing, just as I came down off plane and started to enter the river he started yelling obscenities at me because he had a fish on that apparently decided to exit the river back to the lake.
In my opinion he shouldn't have been there without lights on in the first place anyway and how was I to know he had a fish on???
I was more than a little upset about his attitude and the language he used and I had a few choice words for him as well, my buddy and his son wanted to go back and have a talk with him but the result probably would have been painful or at the least someone swimming back to shore..
The following day we were fishing with the pack and having a great day until my friends son waved to say high to the previously mentioned charter boat only to get the finger in return... We were baffled by the response, I'm sure we didn't cross his lines or in any way shape or form disrespect him.
On the next pass of the line we were fishing we saw him again and once again my friends son waved only to receive other obscene gestures in return, OK, enough is enough so I yelled what's you problem, he replied in the same voice we heard the night before coming off of the driftboat ... you cost me a fish a#%*$*Le. we ignored it until we put 2 and 2 together and realized it must have been the same guy. on the next pass it started all over again and escalated. I don't think the captain had a charter that day because if he did he probably wouldn't have let his mate continue the harassment, my guess is that they were entered in the derby and at any cost were determined to win it, the last thing he said was ( how do you like my numbers a@&$#%%Le
Just as we decided to ignore them while passing them in the opposite direction after his comment we hooked up,
The funniest part of it all is that it seemed that every time we started talking about the situation with them we hooked up again... go figure???
All I can say is that from now on we will avoid the Port Ontario harbor like the plague and can only recommend that others do the same.
Its a pity that the Lighthouse Marina has turned into such a neglected place, my buddy and I were talking about it and we think it would have the to potential to be a great place to launch and stay if fixed up and managed properly.
I've been fishing the lake for more than 25 yrs and never had an experience like this before and hope to never again.
Oh yea we had the best trip as far as the fishing was concerned since the Zebra Mussel messed thing up... The lake has bounced back nicely.