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Back in the days before GPS, I had a paper chart on my skiff that I'd use to find rock cod on the nine. You had to limit the run time of the chart or you'd use too much paper. So I timed the run out from Mission Bay at a given speed, (without the chart running) then once I figured I was close, I'd turn on the chart and start looking for fish holding high spots.
When I found a spot I'd mark it using a 2# weight, a lot of 1/4" line, and an orange buoy.
More often than not some Adam Henry would start drifing my buoy right out there in the middle of the ocean!! My high spot that I had to work like a mofo to find. So I'd always pull my buoy and move, leaving the poacher butt ass nakid with no reference.
Sometimes the AH would even yell at me for pulling my own buoy!!
Funny thing tho, I would have let them work my buoy if they would have asked first and cooperated with me. There are enough fish in the sea for two boats or yaks. But in years of skiff fishing, nobody asked.
Fast forward to today with space age GPS that will put everybody on the same spot.
I'd encourage y'all to respect the guy who got there first, and ask him if you could cooperatively work the spot. Then cooperate with each other!
Let's not stoop to the level of the cattle boats who simply pull up to the spot you're fishing on, then they start throwing iron in your direction.
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