They are probably thinking look at this dude with the camera splashing around in the muck...he is scaring the fish away....LOL
If it were only true. No, these folks were fairly brazen.
It was more like, "is that guy trespassing on our pond?" I have seen these types around before and this is serious business. I am sure there isn't a fishing license between them!
Helene, sorry, I didn't mean to hijack your post. These guys fit right in with the whole bull in the china shop experience, they just didn't have cameras.
Funny how perspective works.
PS: please, call me "Art"