Discarded fishing tackle

[Clanky]

50 minutes ago, cuthound said:

 

Indeed, I'm convinced it they take misery pills to be get in them to in the right mood.

 

I've often chatted to them whilst they are carrying their tackle to their preferred fishing spot and having winded, been ignored when I pass them on my way back when they are fishing.

A bit of a rich comment considering some of the whingeing scrotes that frequent this forum 🙄

[cuthound]

On 30/12/2022 at 15:44, M_JG said:

 

Our dog is insured with More Than and the amount you pay depends on the chosen policy and level of cover.

 

They do four levels of cover. Also the excess increases for dogs over nine years old. Though not for accidents.

 

 

Zeus, my late rescue GSD was the only dog of my first five that I have insured, and then only because of the potential damage he could do to other dogs, given his reactiveness when we first acquired him.

 

He was initially insured with More Than, and then when they changed their terms to them choosing the vet for certain claims I left and moved to Bought By Many (now Many Pets).

 

When Zeus died suddenly of liver cancer they were excellent. They paid the average price for the breed (£1200) even though they knew I had paid the rescue centre £300 for him, plus the full cost of over £1000 for his tests and exploratory operation as well as meeting the cremation fees of £300, less a £69 excess. They even repaid the unused portion of his last monthly payment.

 

I was so impressed that I took out insurance with them for my current dog Sam.

[IanD]

13 minutes ago, magnetman said:

Some of them make wonderful Christmas tree decorations. 

Hey, there's an idea for an Xmas present for a dog lover -- sparkly silver and gold poo bags... 😉

[Jen-in-Wellies]

On 31/12/2022 at 16:45, Sea Dog said:

 

Cute though eh, hence they get a better deal than most other 'vermin'. If I was a rat I'd definitely make myself a faux fur tail cover and spend more time sitting up on my back legs... 

Isn't that what squirrels are? Rats with faux fur socks velcroed on their tails.

[cuthound]

On 31/12/2022 at 13:03, George and Dragon said:

 

 

So glad it's not just ours... he loves children of all sizes and will tolerate any amount of abuse from them but if another dog comes within sight he's twitchy and nervous.

Much better than he used to be when we first got him three years ago but for safety he always wears a muzzle when he's out and there's only one field, where I can see hundreds of metres in all directions, where I dare let him off the lead apart from securely fenced dog exercise fields.

 

 

 

My late rescue GSD Zeus was like that. When we got him he loved children but would try to kill any dog he saw.

 

Much training and socialising later he would tolerate most dogs, and even play with a select few but still reacted in a muted way to some.

 

Because of his unpredictability I always exercsied him with a soft muzzle on.

 

 

 

46 minutes ago, Clanky said:

A bit of a rich comment considering some of the whingeing scrotes that frequent this forum 🙄

 

I take it that you have never had to pilot a narrowboat past a mile long fishing competition then?

 

Each fisherman gives opposing instructions to the one before; "speed up", "slow down", "move closer to the towpath" "move further away from the towpath" etc.

 

Enough to drive you to distraction.

Edited January 2, 2023 by cuthound
To insert spaces between merged posts

[David Mack]

2 hours ago, cuthound said:

I take it that you have never had to pilot a narrowboat past a mile long fishing competition then?

 

Each fisherman gives opposing instructions to the one before; "speed up", "slow down", "move closer to the towpath" "move further away from the towpath" etc.

Well if one gets particularly shirty as you pass, you bang the boat into astern gear, reverse back up to the guy and say "Sorry, but I couldn't hear what you were saying".

[Jon57]

50 minutes ago, David Mack said:

Well if one gets particularly shirty as you pass, you bang the boat into astern gear, reverse back up to the guy and say "Sorry, but I couldn't hear what you were saying".

Only to get a catapult fill of maggots for your trouble fired at you. I don’t bother now , but met I guy who used to fire back with a high powered super soaker water canon filled from the cassette.🤣 

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Jon57 said:

Only to get a catapult fill of maggots for your trouble fired at you. I don’t bother now , but met I guy who used to fire back with a high powered super soaker water canon filled from the cassette.🤣 

 

Had that too.

 

Being a nurse and used to pulling maggots out of wounds Mrs. M_JG just scooped them up off the deck boards and threw them straight back at the idiot, 

 

His face was a picture.

[Momac]

The fishist likes to complain even more than the boater .

 

I had one fishist this year  loudly complain that we wew too far over his side. We were keeping right for a boat approaching  . He wondered how we would survive if we should  drive like that  that  on the M1.

 

To be fair  we do pass most of the fishists without comment . I think sometimes they  sits and thinks and sometimes they just sit.

 

[ditchcrawler]

Well all the ones I met over the past two weeks have been jovial and friendly, 2 even suggesting that the seat on our front deck would be ideal for a pair of weary fishermen.

[Wanderer Vagabond]

Curious anecdote regarding discarded fishing tackle:- before Christmas we were doing the monthly work party on the Dudley No2 canal (hauling tyres out  above Dog Lane Bridge if anyone was interested). A work party member latched onto some 'fishing line' with his grappling hook and started pulling it in, winding it around his hand as he did so. After about 20 minutes of winding it was apparent that there was quite a lot of line, so I started assisting by hauling as well. After 45 minutes we were still hauling in the damn line. The work boat was then going to travel to the CRT depot at Bumble Hole to dump the 20 tyres we'd fished out, so we sat on the back and continued winding in the fishing line. We got to Bumble Hole, a distance of about 700 metres and were still winding in the fishing line so we got back off the work boat and walked back towards Dog Lane Bridge as we couldn't continue winding it in around a right angled corner at Bumble Hole. We therefore walked all the way back to Dog Lane, still winding in the fishing line. I would guess by now we had wound in about 5 kilometres of fishing line and still hadn't reached the end of it. There isn't a 'happy ending' to the story either because back at Dog Lane, the line broke and we still hadn't reached the end of it, so there is still damn fishing line in that section of canal, despite our best efforts.

 

My question from any fishermen on here is who the hell goes fishing in a canal that probably 4 feet deep at it's deepest, with a fishing line over 5 Kilometres long????

[magnetman]

2 minutes ago, Wanderer Vagabond said:

 A work party member latched onto some 'fishing line' with his grappling hook and started pulling it in, winding it around his hand as he did so.

Does he have unusually large hands?

[Midnight]

4 hours ago, cuthound said:

Each fisherman gives opposing instructions to the one before; "speed up", "slow down", "move closer to the towpath" "move further away from the towpath" etc.

 

 I passed that very same fishing match several times in several locations, must be a league?

[David Mack]

I remember one Sunday morning trip from Sowerby Bridge to Salterhebble when the fishists were out in force, but mostly they tolerated us passing at moderate speed in mid channel. But having winded at the end and returning whence we came most of them were less happy to see us a second time the same morning!

Edited January 2, 2023 by David Mack

[Feeby100]

1 hour ago, David Mack said:

I remember one Sunday morning trip from Sowerby Bridge to Salterhebble when the fishists were out in force, but mostly they tolerated us passing at moderate speed in mid channel. But having winded at the end and returning whence we came most of them were less happy to see us a second time the same morning!

Well that’s  just tough on them 

[magnetman]

I remember seeing these signs on canal boats "canals were built for boats"

 

I wonder if the fisherw*****rs ever got some boards made up with "water was made for fish" as a counter argument.

 

 

[booke23]

1 hour ago, Wanderer Vagabond said:

Curious anecdote regarding discarded fishing tackle:- before Christmas we were doing the monthly work party on the Dudley No2 canal (hauling tyres out  above Dog Lane Bridge if anyone was interested). A work party member latched onto some 'fishing line' with his grappling hook and started pulling it in, winding it around his hand as he did so. After about 20 minutes of winding it was apparent that there was quite a lot of line, so I started assisting by hauling as well. After 45 minutes we were still hauling in the damn line. The work boat was then going to travel to the CRT depot at Bumble Hole to dump the 20 tyres we'd fished out, so we sat on the back and continued winding in the fishing line. We got to Bumble Hole, a distance of about 700 metres and were still winding in the fishing line so we got back off the work boat and walked back towards Dog Lane Bridge as we couldn't continue winding it in around a right angled corner at Bumble Hole. We therefore walked all the way back to Dog Lane, still winding in the fishing line. I would guess by now we had wound in about 5 kilometres of fishing line and still hadn't reached the end of it. There isn't a 'happy ending' to the story either because back at Dog Lane, the line broke and we still hadn't reached the end of it, so there is still damn fishing line in that section of canal, despite our best efforts.

 

My question from any fishermen on here is who the hell goes fishing in a canal that probably 4 feet deep at it's deepest, with a fishing line over 5 Kilometres long????

 

When I was a lad me and my younger brother flew kites for a while. We found 5000 meters of thin black nylon thread....and decided to fly a kite with it. We unfurled a few hundred meters and the kite flew so high we could hardly see it. I went back into the house for a moment and when I came back by brother had unfurled at least half the reel despite me telling him not to. The kite was out of sight but I could just see it through binoculars. We started reeling it in, but ran out of patience after reeling in a couple of hundred meters so I cut the line and the kite came down somewhere but we never found it. I wonder if there was a kite at the other end of that line in the canal?

[cuthound]

15 hours ago, Wanderer Vagabond said:

Curious anecdote regarding discarded fishing tackle:- before Christmas we were doing the monthly work party on the Dudley No2 canal (hauling tyres out  above Dog Lane Bridge if anyone was interested). A work party member latched onto some 'fishing line' with his grappling hook and started pulling it in, winding it around his hand as he did so. After about 20 minutes of winding it was apparent that there was quite a lot of line, so I started assisting by hauling as well. After 45 minutes we were still hauling in the damn line. The work boat was then going to travel to the CRT depot at Bumble Hole to dump the 20 tyres we'd fished out, so we sat on the back and continued winding in the fishing line. We got to Bumble Hole, a distance of about 700 metres and were still winding in the fishing line so we got back off the work boat and walked back towards Dog Lane Bridge as we couldn't continue winding it in around a right angled corner at Bumble Hole. We therefore walked all the way back to Dog Lane, still winding in the fishing line. I would guess by now we had wound in about 5 kilometres of fishing line and still hadn't reached the end of it. There isn't a 'happy ending' to the story either because back at Dog Lane, the line broke and we still hadn't reached the end of it, so there is still damn fishing line in that section of canal, despite our best efforts.

 

My question from any fishermen on here is who the hell goes fishing in a canal that probably 4 feet deep at it's deepest, with a fishing line over 5 Kilometres long????

 

Sounds like that fishing line was deployed to deliberately trap boats.

Edited January 3, 2023 by cuthound
To unmangle the effects of autocorrect.

[Mike Todd]

13 hours ago, magnetman said:

I remember seeing these signs on canal boats "canals were built for boats"

 

I wonder if the fisherw*****rs ever got some boards made up with "water was made for fish" as a counter argument.

 

 

The canals may well have been built for boats but the fact is that they are kept navigable today for a variety of uses and users. Boaters will do well to remember that otherwise they could be in for a vey steep increase in fees!

[Machpoint005]

2 hours ago, Mike Todd said:

The canals may well have been built for boats but the fact is that they are kept navigable today for a variety of uses and users. Boaters will do well to remember that otherwise they could be in for a vey steep increase in fees!

 

The boats the canals were built for didn't have engines or propellers either. 

 

 

[Mike Todd]

19 minutes ago, Machpoint005 said:

 

The boats the canals were built for didn't have engines or propellers either. 

 

 

All too often I have to remind boaters on the K&A when they complain about a lack of dredging (because they cannot get close to the bank) that some canals were clearly built with no expectation that boats would want to moor up at random. Only wharves would need to have depth at the bank. 

[magnetman]

I wonder if the anglers would prefer propeller movement and engine noise or horses and towlines. 

 

Hmm.

 

One suspects that the working boat people were rather less accomodating than modern pleasure boaters. They may even have been a little coarse. 

Edited January 3, 2023 by magnetman

[Machpoint005]

One also suspects that anything piscine anyone caught (whether by boaters or fisher-folk) would have been eaten. 

 

 

[magnetman]

3 hours ago, Mike Todd said:

All too often I have to remind boaters on the K&A when they complain about a lack of dredging (because they cannot get close to the bank) that some canals were clearly built with no expectation that boats would want to moor up at random. Only wharves would need to have depth at the bank. 

I was told that when the K&A was rebuilt, which was in quite modern times, there were some eco worriers involved who had a lot of respect for the water voles. This resulted in some areas have submerged piling so that the fluffy critters could get out easily and build nests in the natural canal banks. We were on the K&A for winter 2001/02 and another boater suggested that "you're not supposed to moor there" regarding these areas. We did and used planks but I suppose some people might think it was shallow rather than a deliberate design. 

 

 

[manxmike]

On 02/01/2023 at 13:26, cuthound said:

 

I take it that you have never had to pilot a narrowboat past a mile long fishing competition then?

 

Each fisherman gives opposing instructions to the one before; "speed up", "slow down", "move closer to the towpath" "move further away from the towpath" etc.

 

Enough to drive you to distraction.

I had the dubious pleasure some years ago of approaching a section of canal with a large notice advertising a fishing competition, due to start that day at that exact time - as I passed the start a chap in a nice hat asked how far I was travelling, when I said "at least two miles" he smiled and asked if I would say "start" to each fisherman as I passed, he said he would do the same at the end of the competition to a passing boat saying "stop".

Every fisherman smiled, said thanks and gave me a cheerful wave and thumbs up. I could hardly believe these were the same sort of people who normally scowl, moan and throw maggots!