Shine
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1: If the swim you are in has hard ground and you need a small mallet to help the bank stick in, move your thumb out the way as you hit 
Stupid things NOT to do while fishing
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slime monster
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Position chair in the next county to your rods
Rodney Wrestt
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Take women or children to your P.B. waters.
Mark Wintle
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Take a mallet onto a water where others are fishing; explaining how it got where it now resides takes some explaining in casualty - saying you accidently sat on it won't be believed. Mallets - the curse of roach anglers!
Shine
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Dont worry Mark. I was the only one on the lake at the time. Would never use it while someone was fishing. So many time I've heard what you are saying so I make as little noise setting up as I can while people are fishing.
Anyway, for the times when I was just starting out and did make a noise, revenge was today. Still cant believe I done it.
Anyway, for the times when I was just starting out and did make a noise, revenge was today. Still cant believe I done it.
Emmo (Angling Trust)
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Fall in......
Steve Spiller
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Never.......
Hook your mates Mum in the bare shoulder with a juicy lob on a size 10!
'Skyline' an angler!
Move into an anglers swim un-invited!
Step on your rod!
Take pity on hungry ducks and feed them whilst fishing!
Travel miles and forget the all important part of your tackle...rod, reel, tackle box, hooks, hooklengths, shot, flask, chair, umbrella, landing net (handle), bait, fishing licence! (I've forgot the lot, all on seperate occasions!) Bog roll!!!
Hook your mates Mum in the bare shoulder with a juicy lob on a size 10!
'Skyline' an angler!
Move into an anglers swim un-invited!
Step on your rod!
Take pity on hungry ducks and feed them whilst fishing!
Travel miles and forget the all important part of your tackle...rod, reel, tackle box, hooks, hooklengths, shot, flask, chair, umbrella, landing net (handle), bait, fishing licence! (I've forgot the lot, all on seperate occasions!) Bog roll!!!
Rodney Wrestt
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This one worries me the most SteveNever.......
Hook your mates Mum in the bare shoulder with a juicy lob on a size 10!
'Skyline' an angler!
Move into an anglers swim un-invited!
Step on your rod!
Take pity on hungry ducks and feed them whilst fishing!
Travel miles and forget the all important part of your tackle...rod, reel, tackle box, hooks, hooklengths, shot, flask, chair, umbrella, landing net (handle), bait, fishing licence! (I've forgot the lot, all on seperate occasions!) Bog roll!!!
Shine
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Done the reel one a few years ago Steve. Got to the lake. setting up and.............. DO'H!!
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mates Mum in the bare shoulder with a juicy lob on
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mates Mum in the bare shoulder with a juicy lob on
This one worries me the most Steve
Cakey
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it sounds ruder and ruder as one reads down
captain carrott
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1: If the swim you are in has hard ground and you need a small mallet to help the bank stick in, move your thumb out the way as you hit
a few years ago i was fishing on the thames, catching a fish a chuck some ****** turned up took out all his kit sat in the next peg and proceeded to hammer a banktick into the ground, my bites stopped and didn't start again for 4 hours, anyone and i mean anyone at all who hammers a bankstick into the bank should be taken out and shot. there is absolutely no reason at all that any angler will ever need to hammer a bank stick into the bank under any circumstances, get your hands in your pocket and buy a spiral point bank stick and screw it in, other wise as mark says you will be liable to being charged with posession of a concealed mallet, and if it's me you're next to concealed bank sticks also.
as for biscuit getting a lob on over his mates mothers bare shoulders he must have had a very sheltered upbringing.
peter crabtree
AKA Simon, 1953 - 2022 (RIP)
Do not lean on your pole and break your number 5 section doh!
£107 for a replacement
£107 for a replacement
Graham Whatmore
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Take a dog on a fishing trip - disaster/frustration/embarrassment is never far away.
Much as I love dogs they can prove more trouble than the missus and I have experienced most of the problems including:
A long dead border collie coming and presenting her paw to me embedded in which was a size 8 barbed hook right thru her pad, god love her she never objected one bit when I pulled it thru, even licked my face in thanks afterwards. That same dog Jumped in the Severn at Quatford and swam delightedly right past 40 or 50 match anglers came racing back up to me and doing it yet again, embarrassed or what?
One dog who rounded up all the cattle in the field where I was fishing and stampeded them round and round the field with a big silly grin that dogs have when they are enjoying themselves.
Much as I love dogs they can prove more trouble than the missus and I have experienced most of the problems including:
A long dead border collie coming and presenting her paw to me embedded in which was a size 8 barbed hook right thru her pad, god love her she never objected one bit when I pulled it thru, even licked my face in thanks afterwards. That same dog Jumped in the Severn at Quatford and swam delightedly right past 40 or 50 match anglers came racing back up to me and doing it yet again, embarrassed or what?
One dog who rounded up all the cattle in the field where I was fishing and stampeded them round and round the field with a big silly grin that dogs have when they are enjoying themselves.
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Poshpaul (Angling Trust and PaSC)
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Start fishing amazed at how well you feel after the previous nights 3 bottles of red.....it hasn't kicked in ...and soon you will have to get home before you lose all sight!
Graham Whatmore
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Hahaha! This is true. I went fishing on the Arrow in Alcester after a particularly heavy night on the pop, stopped at the bakery shop and bought 2 cornish pasties which I promptly demolished. Half an hour later and happily trotting a stick float thru I was as sick as a dog right into my stick line and enjoyed the best 2 hours fishing I ever had on that river. Strange groundbait but it worked a treat
Shine
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Come on cc. As I have already explained, I was the only one on the lake.
I had a choice, walk a very short distnce back to the car and get my rod pod, or a mallet. As no one was on the lake, I used a mallet.
This is meant to be a light hearted thread where I have admitted I done a stupid thing. As for getting my hands out my pockets.... I assure you, my banksticks ain't cheap.
I will bend over backwards not to annoy another angler.
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I will bend over backwards not to annoy another angler......... but it looks like I have with this thread
Mr Cholmondeley-Corker (PaSC)
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Yes, but did the vibrations have an effect on YOUR catch?
Shine
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Never would on this lake. Its right by the Dartford crossing.