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	Name:	Maverick -
	Subject:	What If Question
	Date:	6/2/2009 5:02:08 PM

What if you are sitting in your living room and there is a pontoon boat out on the side of your dock fishing with its docking lights on shining into the water and then reflecting back into your house and then in your eye if you looked out towards the dock / water.

And this person was there for over 2 hours on both Friday and Saturday night.

So what would you do???

Let me tell you what I did.

- On Friday night after putting up with this for over an hour (about 11 O'clock at night), I walked out to my pier, unplugged the fishing lights (did not say one word) and then went back up to the porch and turned on all the flood lights pointing towards the dock and then sat in the rocking chair for like 30 minutes and discussed with my wife and children how rude this individual was and I am sure he could hear me.

Then on Saturday night when we were sitting down for dinner, guess what here he comes again (this time no fishing lights on as did not want a repeat of Friday night) and we had several other families over for dinner and we were all siting on the lake side porch enjoying our meal. So by this time I had enough and asked him if he would to turn off the docking lights as he was not docking and he stated they were not point at our house but the water and then I asked him if he had ever heard of light reflecting off of water and think this ticked him off a bit. But he did back up a little and reposition the lights more down towards the water and then his wife asked me if that was better and my reply was yes, but you still should not have such lights on other then when docking.

So I know I do not own the lake, but to you fisherman out there would you do something like that and if not how would you handle this type situation as I do not mind folks fishing my dock, but for 2 hours per night, lights shining into the house and there are folks all over the outside and inside of the house trying to rest and relax and get ready for bed, etc. So just looking for feedback here, be it positive or negative. Am I overreacting or is this not just down right rude?

Thanks