Really rude captain

[Snow10eyes]

I have been a captain for Sea Breeze since I got my lincense on my 18th birthday and now am 36. And before that first mated and worked summers since I was young. Have been wanting to comment on this for days but the site would not allow me until today. I'm not going to condone what our captain did or didn't say to you and your son while fishing last sunday. Because if he did what you said he did he should be fired. Knowing that there is always 2 or more sides to every story we contacted the customers that were on the boat with him in the morning and their version was also very different. However there is not any sense of arguing over versions of the same story. Bottom line is emotions run high when there is that many boats in a small area competing for the same fish. One thing I can tell you is whenever possible no one that fish's for a living every day would ever purposely get close to another boat and risk the chance of creating a huge mess for both parties involved. Frustration is the word that comes to my mind when you have been fishing the same spot every day for the last week and set your gear in at 545 when there is no boats around to speak of except for your colleagues. Then after a first successful pass turn around and see that you will never be able to get back to that spot with your customers and get them their fish. So often try to move on and find new grounds only to basically be moving the pack of boats with you. Or sometimes a boat will just stop and drift right in front of you with little time to react to prevent disaster.
That being said everyone has the same rights to the fish, Charter boats and Private boats. However when 35 boats have the same name on them everyone sees them in the same area it tends to collect a lot of boats and usually becomes a traffic jam when trolling.
Every captain has had a cluster with their lines and like I said earlier would never risk tangling everything up purposely and causing downtime for their clients.

There is no group of fisherman on the lake with the amount of combined experience on Lake Erie as Seabreeze has. We are also very involved in the conservation of the lake with having close ties and working with the DNR and polititions that help to create laws and legislation for the ever and always changing issues this Great Lake has.

Unfortunately incidents are going to happen as long as there are still boats fishing on the lake. Hopefully with the huge bumper crop smalleyes it will help us all to spread out a bit For the remainder of the year and the next several years.

Good Fishing