I've only been buggying for a month or so, but i do get out 5 or 6 times a week.... Seagulls..... I'm cruisin down the beach and i see kids feeding seagulls i know whats coming next.... I zoom thru the flock, the seagulls scatter, fly into my lines sending my kite in unknown directions.... hang on, who knows where im going to end up....... Good thing i have a bigfoot buggy, running over small children is no problem..

Fat lazy fishermen....... Just today, im cruisin up and down the beach, they've seen me go by 5 or 6 times just mindin my own business.... I turn around and cruisin back and now they're are 2 fishing lines in rod holders in the back of a truck, 100 feet from the water, rods bent over with tension on them....I have no where to go... Can't go behind the truck, the beach road is there, can't go out in the water..... I'm hopin i can stop before the hooks get to me.... I hit the fishin line, the fisherman swearin at me, i'm hopin not to get hooked, and the kite crashes into another guys car.... The guy in the car grabs the kite and asks if he can help.... I tell him to hang on to the kite while i get the fisherman off my ass....I remove the fishing lines, being verbally abused, launch my kite and go on my merry way....

This is not the first time this has happened, nor will it be the last....

im a fisherman too,but what they were doing is just asinine

Don't even start me on fisherman :flaming:

Not a lawyer and not sure where you are, but check with the local codes and laws regarding the beach you are on.

This section can be found for the laws applying to Myrtle Beach
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Sec. 5-8. Placing Obstructions On The Beach:

(a) It shall be unlawful, without a permit from the city clerk, approved by the city manager, for any person to put, place or set any equipment, such as dugouts, chairs, umbrellas, windbreakers, surfboards, air floats, life rafts or similar paraphernalia not actually occupied or engaged, or to build or erect any fence or other obstruction on the public beach, so as to obstruct, impede or retard the free and unconstrained use and occupancy of the public beach by the public.
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I would be very surprised if there was not similar verbiage in the laws governing your beach. Local government is not known for leaving itself open to that kind of liability. If a child had been garroted by the fishing line, I am pretty sure the yahoos would have been lynched on the spot.

ATB,
Sam

well... kind of along the same lines... go google kite fishing. I just saw it... you wouldn't believe it O.O

My favorite- down at sunset beach there is a near by army base. They move supplies up and down the beach. Most of the time there is enough space for all, but when the tide is in, they haul a$$ down the beach at twice what I would get a ticket for and honk (not slow down) if I get in their way. I love that. Supply unit, not front line battalion. Chill.

Old school solution---Kevlar lines will win every time vs. monofilament.

I dunno... I've idled up in my buggy and asked if they were catching anything... then politely asked them if they could move a little closer to the water. Sometimes it works, and other times not.


I've always been told by other buggiers/kiters in that area that the beach patrol/cops there had a tendency to kick buggiers off the beach, with the exception of between the bollards at the state park. So no matter how annoying they are... just try to keep up a good rep for all of us kiters.

But on another note... it's not the fishermen that bother me, it's the little bitty wally werld kites with ten thousand feet of line out. The car it's tied to will be by the waterr, yet the kite is barely visible way beyond the dunes. You know it's there when you hear the zinnng.... SNAP! of your lines being severed.

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Originally posted by borntofli Good thing i have a bigfoot buggy, running over small children is no problem..

lmao!!
you made my day with that comment, really funny picture in my head, haha

I'm a kiter and a fisherman, in fact I was looking for a fishing kite when I discovered this awesome sport. We all gotta share the beach without conflict or the kiters will be the first to lose out.
CSA, I fish with Power PRO braided line which will slice through your thicker lines like a hot knife through butter, and your kite and your neck,arm etc.... Not all fishermen are still in the dark ages. Monofilament is old school now.

I checked out the Cape Henlopen, DE shoreline as the Summer Season opened. It's weird - a nice part of the beach was roped off for some breeding birds or something. OK, so they're eco-minded over there. Then, right next to this I see a whole section of beach used for fishing tailgaters!

WHAT is the attraction, or necessity, to haul n' park yer huge 4-wheelers all over the beach? To save a little effort carrying some supplies out from the parking lot that's conveniently located a couple hundred feet away?

Lines, hooks, coolers, dogs, tire tracks, angled/haphazard parking all over one end - protected bird nests in the other. Bathers and tanners piled up on the other shoreline. No place to even consider boarding or buggying. Not enough noise, exhaust or flying sand, I suppose.

Ha! There's a beach here, probably one of the biggest, longest and most pleasant in Japan ... or would be, if they hadn't turned it into a road :alien: "Konichiwa I love the nature it so beautiful let's drive our cars up and down it or take a bus tour to drive all over it"