Ive fished somewhere around 10 tournaments this year and last night was my first night tourney of the year. There were 25 boats in this one which is a good turnout for a "thursday nighter", we had one squeaker in the box and it was around 8:45 when we pulled into our final cove of the night. to paint a picture the cove is probably half the size of a football field but right in the middle theres a little hump that we like to fish as there are generally fish stacked around it. We had fished there for around 10 minutes before a boat pulled up to the mouth of it, no biggie they were gonna fish the outside of a spawning pocket (so i thought), pretty norm for this time of the year. Then they just kept right on the big motor idling no more than 30 feet away... thats right 10 yards of water between the two of us in a pocket thats no more than 50 yards deep and 20 yards wide. we had the Navigation lights on and the interior L.e.d's they could clearly see us. they proceeded to then idle past us and stop right off the point about 15 yards away, literally close enough to hear him twist close the top on his water bottle lid. I was speechless, I cannot imagine being that rude to someone, i don't care if that was a key area for you or you really needed to fill a limit there is no excuse for forcing yourself into a pocket only large enough for 1 boat. We were in there first all he had to do was go to another cove and we would have been fine. Mind you Im in my 18ft center console he was in a 20ft bass boat maybe a 21 i dont know what i do know is that  he was close enough that my interior lights made it possible to see the 225 sticker on his mercury. So its not like it was two kayaks or small boats in there. I know im not alone in experiencing this but it really frustrated me last night, especially because according to the tournament director since we weren't anchored or power poled down the team technically couldnt be penalized. What are yall's thoughts, am I over reacting or should I have said something to them?

Drop your anchor or poles and tell them to vamoose....Seriously though, it was a cheap move and I would make sure I returned the favor at the next TX.  

I would’ve said something. I’ve been in the same situation. We were fishing and some guys idled past us about 10-15 yards and dropped the trolling motor. My parter put turned the tm up and went strait to them. We started throwing right at there boat(I caught a keeper on a spook litterly 5ft from their boat) the guy tried to get smart and my partner literally just said “buddy you pulled up on us and I’m not going to take any $hit. If you want to keep fishing here it’s a public lake and I can’t stop you but I’m not going any where.” I started laughing and those guys were not happy. I honestly thought we were going to end up fighting. Some will say it’s not worth it but I disagree. I’ve always been taught to stand up for my self and that’s what I’ll do. Even if I do get my tail whipped lol