Cell phones--good or bad??

[steve grossman]

Do they drive you crazy on a pier? Are they necessary for 6-10 hours??

[saltandsand]

I ues em for floats, turn em on, tie em up and cast...the fish are attracted to them like magnets.

[Cdog]

Cell phones IMO are way worse than the internet.

You get in on a bite and see the cell phones come out and in a hr the place is packed.

And yes I am guilty of doing it to...:redface:

[TJSingleton]

http://www.phonejammer.com/

[saltandsand]

Phone jammers.... yeah man, totally agree.

Wish I had the extra bucks to buy a long range jammer so y'all could be sitting there dialing and dialing to call and come catch em while I'm hauling em all in.

Loose the phone and catch more fish!

[basstardo]

It's even worse if you have an iPhone. You have the cell phone AND the internet! :p:D You don't have to worry though, the fish never bite when I'm on a pier anyway. :p:rolleyes:

[TJSingleton]

:D I will be honest, while I hate phones, I am a internet junkie. Even so, when it's time to fish, it's time to fish.

[Blloyd]

I had to use the internet on the phone last year to look up how to clean a flounder. Found a very useful site w/ step by step instructions. Of course I turned it the other way so people couldn't see what I was looking at :D I've found that a cell phone is important when you have children, so I try to keep whenever I can. Not everyone is a spot burner.

[lil red jeep]

I know on the golf course if one of my playing partners phone rings we add strokes to his score. If he answers the stupid thing on the course, we usually dump his clubs out on the course!

We should figure out a way to penalize fishermen if they use a phone. I'm all for just reaching over and cutting a line if they have a fish on and cell phone to their ear at the same time.

[TJSingleton]

That would be awesome! :D I would love to see that. Can you imagine the story they would tell about it? "I hooked a 20 pound king" -- when all it was was a little pinfish.

If we are ever on the same pier/beach and I am on the phone fishing -- please, cut my line ;)

[RoryGoggin]

And then there is the guy who's wife is pregnant, and he can't get a call telling him she went into labor. Or the guy who's waiting for his friend to come fishing and he can't get a call to tell him that his friend has been in a traffic accident.

Guys, yes, it can get crowded. I'm as guilty as the next guy of being territorial. But let's get real. If the bite is on, you'll have caught yours before the crowd gets there due to cell phones.

P.S. I hate cell phones on the road a lot more than on the pier.

P.P.S. Everytime I get/make a phone call from the pier, I get a bite. :)

[steve grossman]

My piece of ____ nextel never has service on any piers. Thank god I dont pay for it, its given to me by my employer. I cant ever get service on the piers. It really stinks. It does drive me crazy to hear everyone elses phone go off every 2 minutes, over a 12 hour period. I guess I am turning into a old fart.

[lil red jeep]

And then there is the guy who's wife is pregnant, and he can't get a call telling him she went into labor.

If I went fishing and my wife was close enough to going into labor, my bigger concern than talking on the phone would be squatting to use the toilet from then on. I know my wife would remove a certain appendage!

[RuddeDogg]

don't bother me at all.

[mud]

phones are now a way of life..nothing you can do about it. Dont like the people that get loud or arguing...ugh

[dipnet]

phones are now a way of life..nothing you can do about it. Dont like the people that get loud or arguing...ugh

Ditto Jason - the only ones that are really bad are the LOUD ones. And, IMO the walkie-talkie guys. "Look at me, I have a really cool walkie-talkie phone (NEXTEL) and I can make those cool bleepity-bleep noises when I push this button".

[steve grossman]

Why cant we go backwards in time, and just catch fish, pay $6.00 for a bag of bloods, and $1.69 a gallon for gas?? No phones, no bullshit, just have fun, and catch alot of smelly fish...

[RuddeDogg]

I take my phone with me when fishing but I don't answer it. Leave me a message. That's why I have voicemail. If it's that important, call my employer and they will send a patrol car to get me. The boys all know my fishin spots. it's not like they couldn't find me. I kinda stand out.

[Finny]

I bring my phone on the river in case me or one of my buds is floating with the tide with a motor that don't work my tin boat is 1988

[jcreamer]

I do not mind the cells phones fishing as long as the people do not go to extremes. I have sat with my wife and the people next to use were talking and it was m..f.. this and m...f... that. The guy looked at me and when I pointed to my wife he toned it down a little.
I understand the need for phones withing reason.

[Thrifty Angler]

It seems that a lot of people are unaware of the great technology within their cell phone.

For instance: Why do some people talk so loud! Is it because they may be in Norfolk and talking to someone in Va Beach and feel they are using those old tin cans with a string attaching em...so they raise their voice volume to equal the distance between them and their party? :eek:

If they took just one look around they would find a whisper level would suffice. Haven't they ever wondered how the game warden just happens to show up with that "on a specific mission" look in their eyes...then proceeds to single out certain individuals. :rolleyes:
Bet they never head that "heads up" call being made. ;)

It sucks when people go to extremes by putting their private conversations out there in the public. It definitely doesn't make them look cute.

What has happened to the long gone days of just heading out to the pier for a "quiet" relaxing fishing trip....with the only distractions coming from the occassional drunk who decides he/she wants to vent. I'd take them over the cell phone-aholics any day.

Give me the shoreline. At least the waves drown out most of the chatter. :cool:

[Thrifty Angler]

Isn't all that salt water atmosphere damaging to cell phones in the long run? Just curious.

[saltandsand]

Isn't all that salt water atmosphere damaging to cell phones in the long run? Just curious.

Last year a wave came in, cell phone was in a bucket, lid came off and salt water went in. Cell phone started bumping and grinding like R2D2. Soon afterward if fizzled out. I was out on a 3 day, 2 night trip, I set the phone on the dashboard with windows closed so as to dry it out. It slowly came back to life with ability to dial the cell phone company first, so I called the cell phone from a pay phone, then it worked to call 911. More tinkering but all in all the phone came back to full functioning except for the number "5" so a new one was purchased. The original SIMM card was put into the new phone.