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[dan45hk]

After the numerous posts about people blocking the road (on the EC forum mostly) out on PINS we hoped more people would pay attention to the rules of the park (keep both roads open, keep lines at waters edge, etc). Well on 1/29 we headed out and a group of guys at around the 20mm had their lines crossing the open road, some kind of camp in the middle of the road, then their trucks parked perpendicular to the water behind that. We stopped and let them know they should move their lines but they could care less. Hello? Move your damn rods at the waters edge and leave a space for people to pass through! Normally we would have taken a different action after this but we had guests with us so I had to gun it to make it through the soft sand to go around them, thankfully we didn't get stuck. To top it off they picked a place on the beach where it bottlenecked Here's a pic, not the best as it was from my phone. I would like to keep this an ongoing thread and if you have similar pics to post up please do so to make others aware.

[FIDO]

[ironmanstan]

Well they aren't from Flourbuff. Probably some place like San Antonio. ha ha. Just kidding....
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[Tyler]

Just move the truck up ten feet and it would have been fine. But they probably thought some jerk would not go slowly between the truck and the rods and that happens. I wish we could get compliance on both ends it would make it much easier and less torn up in the Big Shell.

[landlocked beachbum]

Maybe you could have driven up to the back of their truck, asked them to move themselves and gear off of the normal/safe/common sense travel lane while NOT having to move the truck or rods, and passed just behind the truck and taught them a simple, common sense lesson................................

While there, you could have given them the forum address and they could come here and learned what dips--ts they were being, without you having to say a word about it!!!!
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[layzday]

Well that's just about right that's the norm everytime I go down Thier , then they look at you like your in the wrong because you have to down shift and go around them. Everytime I see this I blow as much black smoke I can and throw even more sand. The way I see it if you don't know how to drive in the sand enough to park out of the way drive to Jp with the rest of the morons, that crap makes me mad
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[layzday]

Especially in the middle of little shell
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[dan45hk]

[Bluffer]

Ive seen way worse than that. At least no 2ft drop-off above them where its hell to go around. They could have pulled up a little, or moved thier gear off the road.
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[dan45hk]

Thing is we asked them to move nicely at first and they couldn't care less.
We explained to them how to solve the problem easily for us and every
other car that would be driving by soon and again they didn't give us the
time of day. You just can't be like that and expect good things to come
your way and people to leave you alone. Sooner or later someone will
do something about it especially if they get stuck on account of you.

[dan45hk]

[Crazyhorse]

Just an opinion here, since I don't fish that area when I am down there, but if stuff like that keeps happening and enough people start complaining, the Admin over PINS might step in and shut the beach down completely.

Could be wrong, but from other threads I have seen on here it appears to me that the park Service is just looking for reasons to shut the place down to everyone.
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[mikedehart]

I have to agree... some of the people on the beach just flat out dont belong down there. Its not so much knowing the rules. Its some simple common sense. "Hey cousin bob! I gotta new 4 wheel drive! Lets go drive down to that place..??? duh... Big shell". Then we all get to watch the coast guard rescue you off the beach. And a truck in the surf. (could serve as a new place to fish)

Quick story.. about 8 years ago. We were fishing about the 14mm. Our rods were set up at the shorline and the tide was moveing out. Trucks were parked on the other side of the low road. At the shoreline we had chairs, ice chest,shade canopy, a mini camp.

There was about 10-12 of us including 3 kids under 8years old playing in the sand. SOME @#&% SOB &$# a@# mother $%#@& driving a jeep drove UNDER our lines. I stopped him with some very kind words. he said I should check the rule book under beach etiquette. He recieve some good ol Texas boy etiquette. (remember the 3 kiddos)

After that I always bring traffic cones, and place them close to where we and our KIDS are going to be.

Now to the best part. We caught fish and had a blast. Im hooked on PINS. I have learned to drive arround the idiots that block the road and let my buddy blow his train horn as we drive by. It scares the crap out of them idiots. Think I might invest in one of those air horns for my truck.

[boricua]

Most likely they are not from the coast. Sometimes I let them know is a park policy not to block the low road for safety reasons and a Park Ranger might give them a citation. I don't know if there is such policy but it does the job. Other times by just looking who they are I just drive around to avoid any confrontations.

[landlocked beachbum]

As always, ya just can't fix stupid!!!
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