Don’t know if its just where I’m at or what, but when I go fishing I like to take the dog and let him run. Here lately seems like no matter how far out I am people find me! They wanna stand right next to you and have a conversation. Man I hate that. My dog aint got a mean bone in his body so I aint worried bout that, but its aggervating as hell.
too close to Des Moines
Move to Eldora
Do different then being out on the water here. It can be the middle of the summer and humps all over the place and out of no where a boat pulls in on you. 
Even if I am catching fish I pack up and leave or turn the radio up 
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Do different then being out on the water here. It can be the middle of the summer and humps all over the place and out of no where a boat pulls in on you.
A friend of my father’s had a his own interesting approach to this problem. He’d just go some random place and slip a home-made marker buoy in the water and start trolling around it.
Of course as soon as others saw the marker, they would assume he was on the hot fishing and pretty soon a bunch of boats would set up right on top of him.
Then he’d do a couple of passes and then leave. The other boats would continue to work around the marker, everyone assumed that it was somebody else in the group of boats that marked the hotspot, so they’d all keep working it like idiots. More boats would show up and they’d work the spot as well because that’s where everyone else was fishing.
He said it wasn’t uncommon to have the rest of the lake to himself as a swarm of boats worked the hotspot that that buoy just MUST be marking.
Grouse
I used this technique on the Mississippi in the late 60s. Used a bleach bottle and a piece of scrap iron so the cost was manageable. Worked like a charm and kept the idiots off my crappie cribs, especially if the spot was visible from the landing. I’ve seen 20 boats around one on a sunday morning. my father would just shrug his shoulders and hrmph off in disgust.
these days i’d probably get a ticket for littering…
I think it is funny that people think fishing means going where others are fishing. Don’t bother putting any thought into it.
I usually try and avoid boats, but there are rare exceptions. I even get embarrassed when I have a spot in mind and I get there and a boat is fishing the spot. I sometimes will lurk in the area and move in when they leave. But even though I intended fishing the spot before seeing another boat, I always feel like “one of those guys”.
I suggest you ask the other people, “Are you catching any catfish too”? Or if on a lake with no cats, substitute bullhead. Do this when they cut the motor and before they drop anchor or the trolling motor.
so far, only once have i had a problem with a boat. young kid in what im assuming is daddies boat and drops anchor not 30ft from me. i was done fishing anyway so i didnt make to much of a fuss over it but the nerve of some people. Now last weekend i was fishing the river, minding my own buisness, in a rather tough spot to get to, and a whole pack of people came down. we’re talking mom, dad, a few uncles and 40 kids. needless to say im looking for some land in montana with a river on it!
Chevy if your near the skunk river or any tributary go there, its worth the drive even if its 50 miles. Some of the best catfishing in Iowa is in the skunk river. Or hit some of the back waters on the Des Moines river south of the city, 35 miles south of the city is really good back waters, try there.
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