Checking out some new fishing venues and came across their rules, one of which was about retaining your swim.

Rules

Whats the idea of leaving a waterbottle in the swim?????????????? Anyone enlighten me on why??

Terry

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I like this rule :

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Three hours in club house in one 24 hour period (3 month ban)

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Do you have to clock in and out of the clubhouse I wonder?

Terry,
For us carp anglers that carry tons of gear;
The best way to look around a water and find fish / free swims is with minimal gear. If you find a swim you like you leave an item of tackle in it whilst you go and collect the rest - a water bottle is a convenient item of tackle to leave (plus it's unlikely to get nicked).

Rob.

On one local carp puddle I did watch an epic scene. It was a frosty morning before 7.00. Instead of dressing up in all your thermals what you do is.... Dress light and lug a 4/5ft orange propane cylinder and burner over to keep you warm. It allows you to toast your hernia. I am not sure that the burner was below the chair otherwise piles could be a result! Then a garden spade to lift turf to look for worms. Just to make sure use some gutted fish bits in your groundbait. I was asked to make sure noone knicked the peg because he had forgot the sugar.

No chance of anyone stealing that peg, bits from it maybe but certainly not the peg. Are propane cylinders mentioned in the rulebook.

Rob, I get the drift now, thanks for enlightening me.

Wunnus, No mention of propane cylinders that I could find, so they must be ok!

Cheers....Terry

Also the type of water bottle they are refering to is more of a jerry can and when full is probabley the single most heaviest piece of a session anglers kit.I know the waters in question.It is a shame that there is a need for so many rules.At £500 a season you thought they could have been a bit more selective with there membership.then they would not have had to be so heavy.I certainly wouldnt pay that much to be so restricted and fish along side the type of angler the managment obviously feels is present.

They're a bit stricked aren't they. And there's loads of them!!!!!!

You have to laugh, with so many rules is it worth it especially when expected to pay £500 for the privilege! I am puzzled by the 'no bent hooks' rule, can anyone tell me where I can buy straight hooks, I bet they are the secret weapon that the carp guys use for the monsters!!!

Ginger
(Pete Fields)

Trouble is Terry,that there are probably more anglers than swims...plus they all want the ones that produce most fish.

I have no problem with rules, if you do not like them then fish somewhere else, after all the lakes are privately owned and stocked.

I did like the one relating to "only one water bottle" as it used to be common practise among quite a large number of carpers to carry four or five and deposit them in different swims, I was amused to watch this happening at a lake I used to fish....another angler was walking along a short distance behind collecting the small items of tackle left in each swim

As you can imagine one hell of a row broke out

I do have some sympathy with a lot of carpers who have to work normal hours and try to balance their fishing with running a home and kids and mortgage etc, they turn up on a Friday night and find most of the swims taken by others who got off work early or even the day before (fair enough) or the large number of dole dodgers who have back trouble(!) and are unable to work(?) but are still able to fish, drink, smoke weed and buy expensive baits.

I would suggest that most of the rules in the link have been brought about to stop these types from taking over the whole fishery 7 days a week.

Budgie may remember the swim rotation that used to go on...mates swopping swims to keep others out....some swims were occupied by the same small group for weeks on end.

Den

To true Den.it certainly wasnt fair.It is a sad fact of life that rules have to be brought in but a fact none the less.