What angling aspect would you put in room 101?

[Guest bluedun]

Carp and other cliches.

 

And pellets. No angler who cares about the environment (which should be all of us) ought to use them - made from species like sandeels for aquacultural feed, adding to the wreckage of our marine ecosystem.

[Phone]

Mark,

 

Yep - - Thx

 

Phone

[Emma two]

Silly fishery and club rules

I agree with that one...which is why I usually stick to wild water, although they have introduced some dafies on those too.

People who think (or perhaps they don't) that barbless hooks are good for fish welfare in all circumstances, and impose rules to that effect.

[barry luxton]

What about Eel fishing. .

conger eel are very much fun. especially pulling up an 80 lb der when the deck is pitch black at night, don't know what your missing

[RUDD]

Single minded anglers who can't accept that angling comes in various guises.

[arbocop]

Like Andrew I don't have an issue with people fishing in any specific way. But my issue I would like to put into 'Room 101' some the lack of respect 'some' anglers show to the lake, area surrounding the lake and the other people using the lake for fishing or other recreational activities.

 

I quite agree. I write for an Angling Society Newsletter 'The Bulletin'. This is an article I wrote in 2011, from which I quote directly.

 

Etiquette

 

et·i·quette

The customary code of polite behaviour in society or among members of a particular profession or group.

 

Many years ago [probably about 20!] when fly fishing, I went to a day ticket fishery that proclaimed a sign stating;

 

‘Angling is a sport of gentlemen. Please behave like one’.

 

Apart from the gentleman bit – around 1 in 8 anglers are women apparently – I wholeheartedly agree with this statement. There are certain things that aren’t in rules and don’t - or shouldn’t - need to be reinforced. This isn’t necessarily something that relates only to expensive chalk stream angling with a dress code, or whether one is wearing the correct tweed for that Salmon River. It is something that we are all aware of and uphold, at least subconsciously. However, there are examples where angler’s behaviour does breach ‘the etiquette rules’.

 

Some examples I have witnessed over the years;

• An angler who has three rods and casts across the swims adjacent, preventing another angler from fishing there.
• An angler who wades downstream in a small river, Angler B [coarse angler] is camouflaged in the bank-side vegetation and the wading fly angler wades into his upstream swim.
• Angler A is fishing in a clear river, in drab clothing with a backdrop of a bush, trotting down to the tail of the swim. Angler B arrives to ask how angler A is getting on and stands on the skyline in a white T shirt. Angler B bade his farewell. Angler A catches nothing for the next 2 hours.
• Angler A is fishing quietly, in a small pond near some lilies. Angler B arrives and from the opposite corner, bales 5 orange sized balls of ground bait to the opposite side of the lilies, then bombs in the Method feeder.
• An angler fishing a large lake has pre-baited the swim. Others notice this and fish the swim with the same bait, at the optimum time.
• A tench lake at dawn. An angler arrives and starts to weed rake the bottom. The angler in the adjacent swim was already fishing.

A little etiquette goes a long way!

 

 

 

Mike

[Phone]

Arbo,

 

Even then you have to be able to be tolerate. What may be acceptable in one society may not be so in another.

 

Englishmen in England have a difficult time with the "polite behaviour" part. If they know you are a Yank - they wait in the bushes in small groups.

 

Phone

[arbocop]

Arbo,

 

Even then you have to be able to be tolerate. What may be acceptable in one society may not be so in another.

 

Englishmen in England have a difficult time with the "polite behaviour" part. If they know you are a Yank - they wait in the bushes in small groups.

 

Phone

 

I repeat - but underline the most relevant to my article;

 

et·i·quette

The customary code of polite behaviour in society or among members of a particular profession or group.

 

The Englishmen in England and waiting in bushes part I do not understand.

 

Mike

[Vagabond]

The customary code of polite behaviour ...........among members of a particular .........group.

....or, as an American angling writer once put it "there are only two sorts of anglers - your own party and the assholes"

[Tigger]

....or, as an American angling writer once put it "there are only two sorts of anglers - your own party and the assholes"

 

 

Sounds about right to me

Edited July 18, 2013 by Tigger