re: Fishing etiquette?

I couldn't care less if I'm fishing and someone is close to me as long as it doesn't affect my fishing. Cutting in front of me on a bank affects my fishing, so that's pretty a-hole-ish. But if I'm fishing for trout around a wellhead or something, and my casts don't interfere with yours and vice-versa, then who cares. I've seen people get livid about it. If there's a school of fish there, it's not like I assume there's 25 trout there and they are all mine. Just don't make it a pain to fish for them and I feel like everything's good.

The worst I've ever seen was a guy in a decked out Lake and Bay obviously scouting for a tournament relatively close to some camps. He's got his poles down and is fishing some current pouring out of a cut. Two young kids in a kayak decide that they are going to paddle through the cut while he's fishing it (probably 3' wide) . The look on that guys face was priceless. Kids had no idea what they were doing, but they could have easily waited a few minutes or gone another 100 yards down.