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Kite etiquette

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Back to fishing (since this is the kite etiquette thread)...

There's a guy I've seen over between One Seagrove Place and Seagrove Dunes who will put out as many as a half-dozen lines at a time...maybe more. Must be rude, right?

Well, it turns out he's a commercial pompano fisherman and is trying to make a living. Pompano tend to frequent the beaches and are not as easy to target from a boat as other species. The only legal way to commercially catch pompano in Walton County is via hook-and-line or a castnet.

If you buy pomp from Goatfeathers you're probably buying his.

A couple of friends of mine talked to him once...during a five-minute conversation, one woman got mad because she had to walk around the rods which were set up about 8 or 10 feet from the water line. He told them another one had complained earlier because fishing in general offended her.

Fishing is supposed to be relaxing, but they said he didn't look very relaxed. In fact, they left him because they felt like they were getting in the way while he was trying to work. The last thing he said was "ya know, some of us are not on vacation."
 
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