Bookings for Wingham Fish-In Sat 23rd to Mon 25th Apr 2016

[Steve Burke]

Not yet. Probably tomorrow evening or Friday.

[Andy_1984]

Im sure ill make it to one of these one day if im still welcome

 

honest im not as big an ahole as i sometimes appear to be

[Steve Walker]

  On 4/13/2016 at 1:40 PM, Steve Burke said:

Not yet. Probably tomorrow evening or Friday.

No problem, just making sure it hadn't got lost or flagged as spam.

[Steve Burke]

You'd be very welcome, Andy.

[Rusty]

  On 4/13/2016 at 1:51 PM, Andy_1984 said:

honest im not as big an ahole as i sometimes appear to be

Nobody here thinks you're an ahole. It'd be one hell of a journey but if you could do it then I don't think you'd regret it. You must try to fish at Wingham just once.

[Anderoo]

I'll be sorting my gear out this weekend so I'll see if I have anything worth donating to the auction. It was good fun last year!

[Andy_1984]

Thanks steve

 

Rusty im sure i could dig out a few people here who would disagree with you there

[Steve Burke]

Please could I remind all coming to read the rules I've sent you. We have some unusual ones, plus others have changed recently.

 

In particular please note the requirement to be able to hit a take within 10 seconds. So please wind in, and also remove your bait from the hook, if you want to leave your swim.

 

We've never had a problem on a Fish-In, but we did have someone on a guest ticket break this rule. Needless to say he blew his chance of membership!

[Andy_1984]

Had someone on my syndicate reel in and dump a baited pike rig in the margin inches from bank and went to the shops. Same person, 130 yards away from 3 pike rods.

 

Needless to say I didnt renew his membership. Its crap when you have to actually enforce some of these things that should be common sense.

[Steve Burke]

All too common I'm afraid these days, Andy, isn't it? I remember one of the early pike days at Ardingly Reservoir. One of the bank anglers(?) had spread his rods out over 200 yards of bank and was sat at one end!

 

I wonder if it started with some of the carp books written in the late 70s and in particular the 80s? Anglers then copied their idols, went off to the pub and a curry and left their rods out all the time. It seemed to become accepted in certain circles after that.