Lots of lost fish

[Phone]

Steve,

 

Of course your right. As mentioned twice using the RIGHT equipment is the first order of business. I bet most don't know how to "skip" a bait into place like Newt and his pals.

 

Phone

[John Weddup]

Dave H hope you read this as others have said "you can learn a lot from match anglers".

 

I think Dave these club type and commercial water anglers are what I was reffering too when I said short answer no.

 

Anderoo at least what they are destroying are easily bought again off the peg from your local fish supplier. What we and others generally fish for are a little different. I wouldn't like to decry what they are doing as the sport of fishing really does need allsorts to keep up the dwindling number of anglers.

 

John

[wizneil]

been in this situation myself when i match fished,i sorted the situation by fishing a very short line to pole and struck at the bite towards the snag the fish always swim the opposite way into open water,i agree this type of fishing isnt for the purist and great for the fish but it happens. Anglers of all styles do things others find out of order.

I'm afraid anglers can sometimes be their own worst enemy

[Rusty]

What worries me about this is that apart from a vague suggestion that he should have changed his approach most of the replies are sympathetic. Snags are good features to fish to but you have to fish them with a plan in mind, you can't just hook one and hope that the fish swims out.

[Newt]

The guy who wrote the post is a good angler who does care about fish welfare so all I can figure is that I understand match fishing about as well as my cat understands algebra.

 

It does sound like his gear wasn't up to the task on that day in that swim and he lost quite a bit of money which makes me even more sure I don't understand.

 

Since he was fishing with fairly small and almost certainly barbless hooks, I imagine the fish didn't have much of a problem getting rid of the hooks so I'm not sure how you figure that he was damaging fish.

[RUDD]

Why not feed with the pole then fish a bomb rod?

Also have read a lot of threads about Preston line not being up to scratch - a dodgy spool maybe?

[John S]

Match angling these days is nearly always about poles, so I imagine he didn't even have a rod with him at the time.

[John Weddup]

Match angling these days is nearly always about poles, so I imagine he didn't even have a rod with him at the time.

or even own one

 

John

[philocalist]

Just veeeeery slightly off-topic ... but I wonder how many posters on here realise that the O/P on MD's - 'Dave' - the guy under critique / criticism in this thread - is actually the owner of MD's?

[Dales]

Just veeeeery slightly off-topic ... but I wonder how many posters on here realise that the O/P on MD's - 'Dave' - the guy under critique / criticism in this thread - is actually the owner of MD's?

 

Should that make any difference?