Baiting Back Fired

Ray Daywalker Clarke · Jul 4, 2010

Last night I took the dogs with me while I pre baited a swim for fishing this morning.
Walking round checking permits there was just one person on the lake, Tench are the target.

I had been in a swim that I had raked the other week, so I baited this swim ready for a few hours fishing this morning. Only one person on the lake, I thought I won't need to to bait another.

WRONG.

Got there this moring and a guy was just casting for the first time, in the swim I had baited.

Tench rolling over the baited area, fizzing bubbles ( not jackos monkey), I couldn't let the baited area and work go to waste.

I told the guy where i had baited, he cast his second rod into the baited area, result, first cast a 7lb 14oz tench. I went to another swim.
I left at 10am having blanked, he had had 3 Tench by then over 7lb.
Thats fishing, you ever had the same thing happen.

Two swims baited next time.

Fred Bonney · Jul 4, 2010

Next time, leave the dogs on guard mate!

Morespiders · Jul 4, 2010

I cant help but laugh Clarke, ha-ha, never mind, they were only small ones, not worth getting the net in a mess for

Ray Daywalker Clarke · Jul 4, 2010

hahaha, my Bassett would lick them to death, the Springer would just sit and wag his tail.

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Morespiders said:
I cant help but laugh Clarke, ha-ha, never mind, they were only small ones, not worth getting the net in a mess for

I checked the guy looked at the scales and not his watch, like some i know. At that time in the morning and on your watch, it would have been 43lb 3ozs...............

Morespiders · Jul 4, 2010

At that time in the morning my watch would have read what his scales did, like i said, small ones Clarke

slime monster · Jul 4, 2010

In the words of the fast shows unlucky Alf ..........OH ****** !

hard luck mate ha ha ha

Ray Daywalker Clarke · Jul 4, 2010

Morespiders said:
At that time in the morning my watch would have read what his scales did, like i said, small ones Clarke

At 4,30 am your still playing with the sock...............

Steve Spiller · Jul 5, 2010

You'll have to get up earlier next time Ray and settle for a 30lber.....:wh

the indifferent crucian · Jul 5, 2010

This happened to me so many years running on the glorious 16th. that I started to think I was being followed!

So now I don't pre-bait for the 16th.

Which might explain why I do so badly every June.

Sort of Catch 22 really

S-Kippy · Jul 5, 2010

Lets see if anybody has any moral integrity on here.

If you'd been the bloke sitting on Ray's pre-baited swim would you have given it up ?

I would...and not just because I know Ray.I think its the proper thing to do.

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I have Cakey and Spiders down as definate "not bloody likelys".

Tee-Cee · Jul 5, 2010

I think you were very controlled under the circumstances BUT I have to say that if someone told me they had prebaited a swim I(without doubt!)would have vacated immediately...Yes, I know we all take a chance in doing so but I would not be happy catching fish under such circumstances-7lb+ or otherwise!!

I remember arriving at a swim on a pit in Marlow many moons ago some 6 hours prior to the kick off on the 16th and setting up.Two hours to go and a guy turned up,saw me in'his'swim,almost dropped to his knees in horror and then raised his head to the heavens to mutter much anglo saxon for some seconds.
He approached,literally with tears in his eyes to explain his 6 week long prebaiting programme(with stewed wheat?).....I relented and moved to another swim to catch six good tench(4lbs was big in those days!)and he blanked-not arun for 12 hours.....funny old world innit???

Always next week Ray.....and who need 7lb fish anyway-small pertaters for you I would have thought!!!(?)

S-Kippy · Jul 5, 2010

Well done Tee-Cee. That's a Gold "Proper Angler" badge for you.

Stealph Viper · Jul 5, 2010

I can remember 1 terrible day when Baiting Back Fired on me ........... damn the guy that sold me that Irish Catapult. :wh

Graham Whatmore · Jul 5, 2010

Perhaps if you had put card on a stick saying it was prebaited the guy might just have had a concience and not fished it! We used to do that in Ireland and it was generally accepted that you didn't fish that swim if it had a prebaited sign on it, there are still some honest people in this world, not a lot - but some.

At least if you had found him fishing your swim Ray you would have a ready made excuse to give him a few gentle taps with a bank stick :wh

Stick_Float · Jul 5, 2010

S-Kippy said:
Lets see if anybody has any moral integrity on here.

If you'd been the bloke sitting on Ray's pre-baited swim would you have given it up ?

I would...and not just because I know Ray.I think its the proper thing to do.

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I have Cakey and Spiders down as definate "not bloody likelys".

I'd definitely offer to vacate the swim if asked but I'd definitely refuse to ask someone to move for me, It doesn't seem right to me.

It happened to me the other day, baiting up a few swims on a lightly fished section of the Colne when 2 guys turned up and plonked themselves in 2 baited swims. It's fair game as far as I'm concerned, and bait up swims in the knowledge they may be taken.

geoffmaynard · Jul 5, 2010

Ummm. I think I might have offered to share the swim with you because, not knowing you, I'm not sure I would have given it up just on the say-so of someone who 'claimed' to have baited it.

Nathan · Jul 5, 2010

Had the same happen to me when baiting a section of local canal. I was a bit miffed but just kept on going not wanting them to know i'd be baiting the area. They blanked & moved on. On my way home I put some more bait in & returned the next day to catch a mint looking 21lb common. Result

Ray Daywalker Clarke · Jul 5, 2010

I wouldn't dream of asking someone to move, just because I had baited the swim. I took a chance, the guy got there first, fair play to him.

I didn't want to see the work go to waste, thats why i showed him the spot to fish, plus it showed me the baiting had work, good old home made partical mix.

Fished Ireland and as Graham says, a swim with a sign saying prebaited got left alone, but it's not common practise here is it.

I would move myself if it had been the other way round, but I got the satisfaction, ( not the rolling stones kind) seeing some good fish, and knowing in a way I helped him.

S-Kippy · Jul 5, 2010

And you get a Skippy's Gold "Proper Angler" Award as a result,mate.

Now then...my next question to test your morals. If you had been Ray in that situation would you have been so decent as to mention you'd baited the swim & where to fish ?

Well...would you...honestly ?

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Stick float : I agree...I wouldn't actually ask them to move but I would mention it and see what the reaction was. If there wasn't one I'd walk away.

slime monster · Jul 5, 2010

I have arrived at weedy venues where it was patently obvious that a swim had been raked quite recently , a quick root in the still wet weed on the bank revealed shrimps etc still alive..I left it well alone and was thanked for doing so. as for an angler turning up claiming to have prebaited the swim ,. if he was there first thing and I had just beaten him to it he would be welcome to it but if the guy turned up later and I was hauling ...that could be a different story.

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