What is a "swim"

[Steve Walker]

I did once have someone start trotting down from the peg upstream of me when I was fishing the upstream nymph...

[Phone]

All,

 

Where it "matters" a "swim" is 15 ft either side of your "peg" and extends straight out half the distance to the other bank. Rarely does it matter. A few carp tournaments and in Southern Paylakes it can become an issue. Fish on has always been an "issue" but in paylakes you better keep your fish in your swim.

 

Phone

[Rusty]

I did once have someone start trotting down from the peg upstream of me when I was fishing the upstream nymph...

That would've been JV44.

[Matthew Simmons]

Swim is the water you are fishing. And the peg is the bank space you are occupying. Easy on lakes - harder on running water!

[lutra]

Swim is the water you are fishing. And the peg is the bank space you are occupying. Easy on lakes - harder on running water!

 

I'd completely agree with you on that Matthew, but .........

 

Us anglers have made hard work of it. It now seems common to call a peg a swim. A peg could have more than one swim for me, but pole anglers now seem to have lines ("I fished tight to the far bank, but baited an inside line as well"? ).

 

Maybe the most broken law, but on running water I think the law says you can fish to the middle of the river and who ever has the other side can fish to the middle from their side (Might end in a fight if your club has both sides).

[Phone]

Sportsman,

 

You should know by now - fly fishermen are like sail boats. They have full right-of-way and unrestricted access over rod and reel or pole fishermen, They do have some sort of unwritten code between each other.

 

Phone

 

Edit: they, fly fishermen, are only slightly better than a guy with a throw net gathering bait fish.

Edited November 12, 2014 by Phone

[Steve Walker]

Phone - you have our class system there too?

[chesters1]

We have rules defining just what a swim is depending on the nearness or position of the anglers ,pretty complicated and unnecessary in the main

 

The yanks have a class system generally if you can prove your family came over with a load of religious zelots ffrom england your top of the pile ,if you speak anything else than english or speak a type of english and live in a caravan your bottom of the pile ,the rest do as their told by those above and blame those below ,pretty well the same as everywhere else in the west

Edited November 12, 2014 by chesters1

[Emma two]

Phone - you have our class system there too?

Do you think that 'our' or any other class system can be superimposed upon angling?

[Emma two]

'Swim'' is one of those words I learned about coarse fishing when I first moved away from this area as a teenager. We just didn't use it, I suppose the nearest thing to it was a 'beat', a salmon fishing term used to describe a stretch of river. (usually much longer than a static fishing peg)'' Peg' was another one, all it meant to me once was something to hold a tent down with or hang ones washing with.

 

Now although rarely if ever using the words I undestand 'swim' to be the water I am fishing, and 'peg' as the bit of riverbank or lake shore from which I am fishing.

 

How about boat fishing, which makes up a good percentage of my angling. is thr peg in the boat and the swim the water all around it?

Edited November 13, 2014 by Emma two