Would be intresting to have your opinion.If fishing on a lake and there is a match on another lake at same complex
Is having walk round match ok.
Not chatting just a stroll round
I had this experience on a sharking trip out of Megavissey years ago. Fella droned on ALL day about previous catches (nobody was catching that day). Finally, about half an hour before we headed back, who should have a screaming take but Mr Gobby... which he proceeded to strike at with his spool disengaged and get the world’s biggest bird’s nestI can imagine that is properly annoying in a match as it’s bad enough when you get them pleasure fishing. I haven’t come across many complete wallies coarse fishing in fact most do have some interesting stuff to say so I don’t mind chatting for a few minutes. When like more than a quarter of an hour has passed it does start to get a little tedious but as long as it’s interesting I just put up with it.
Did have this like 15 year old Canadian lad sat behind me and a couple mates for what seemed like forever when fishing a dock in Florida a few years ago. He spent the whole time trying to coach us but I’m not sure him telling us to do what he does to catch Muskie in the Great Lakes a couple thousand miles north was of any great help when we were just catching a few snappers over a beer!
That was nothing like as bad as getting stuck with a complete twonk of a know it all who knows nothing on charter trips though as you’ve got them for hours. I’ll normally happily accept help on charter trips as I’m not terribly competent at such fishing but I don’t really want help from someone that’s clearly even less competent than me but thinks he’s Dave Lewis or Mike Thrussell or someone of the like.
That's one of the reasons I stopped fishing Donnington. Too much going on in the water and too many people on the bank. You just cannot fish. Which is a shame as the fishing can be good.It certainly can be quite eventful! Tbh it's part of the attraction of river fishing for me. Whilst swimmers and boaters are mostly annoying the nice swimmers in bikinis, ladies university rowing teams, nerdy blokes in daft little sailing dinghies capsizing themselves, tourists running aground rented barges etc are all quite entertaining!
Yeah same. Whilst there's a lot going on at places like medley obviously the footpath and the boat channel are a fair way off you in most swims and in most swims theres vegetation to separate you from the swims either side so you get your own space. But on donnington everyone is right on top of you in every way, at times to to a horrible extent. Only place that I consider fishable there is the grassy bit on the bend by the entrance of the weir stream.That's one of the reasons I stopped fishing Donnington. Too much going on in the water and too many people on the bank. You just cannot fish. Which is a shame as the fishing can be good.
PicsDid have some German lady lay down for a nap behind my peg once which did make for a rather disconcerting half hour or so. Wasn't half as distracting though as the time a girl stripped down to her thong on the far bank then swam through my swim and said hello as she went!
^^........I also had a great wind up at Stafford Moor when I used to fish there a lot and an angler came around, stood behind me telling me that he'd come down to watch Dave Brittain on the pellet waggler and that he knew him wellI'd never seen him before, so I just let him carry on round the lake until the weigh in when he said to me, "you're him aren't you"
I said, "well you said you knew me well and I thought you looked like you knew what you were talking about so I let you carry on
Everybody was laughing and luckily he saw the funny side. We had a good chat where I took him through the method and gave him a few floats. He had chatted with me on-line on the forums several months before and I had said to him come down any time, however he never told me he was coming and just turned up while on holiday![]()
It was somebody off TF, I still chuckle, it was one of those you had to be there moments^^.....So our Chris recognises you now then?....
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had this once when on a certain venue ,caught sight of a chap standing to my right a couple of yard behind me to begin with which although i was fishing in around 9" of water that tight to the bank my float was near enough on the grass but i was catching every put in which he commented on saying you`ve got um going there son ,which to be fair he was right they were queuing up to be caught but he was edging forward towards my float his voice getting louder the nearer he got then to top it off his f***ing dog which was not on a lead came licking up the water inches from the float ,needless to say that was that as far as that swim was concerned , they seem to have gone son he said ,i can`t put in words what i said but it wasn`t niceHow do you get on with, bank walkers, or advice from pleasure fishing, experts,when fishing a match
One Match that comes to mind was this summer, the Club had booked twenty pegs on a local commercial.
Two hours into the match and things were going really well , when along comes our expert wearing a yellow day-glow
jacket, and starts telling me how wrong I am doing things, and how only the other day he had caught a net full of double figure carp
and a perch of 6lbs. ( yeh right they do not exist on this water )
I just new from that point on, I should not have got into conversation with this bloke, and just been a bit more anti social, because forty minuets
later he was still telling me how good he was , and telling me I should be doing this that and the other.
He might be very good who knows,but the feeling to me was, he just wanted to tell me these massively exaggerated stories, of huge bags of fish,
that he caught regularly, you know the angler that never has a dry net.
As a hint for him to move on, I mentioned covid and how we must keep our distance , so he then decides to move and stand over my brilliant
margin line waving is arms and shouting even louder telling me how the two match anglers over on the point are fishing it all wrong too.
When this chap eventually moves on from me he ends up two pegs away, telling that angler the same stories he had told me.
I did end up second in the match that day (even though as far as he was concerned I was fishing it all wrong)
Maybe if I had listen to his advice I could have won the match, who knows.
I know that there are some lads in our club, who would have in there own way, politely told him to get lost, for the want of a better word .
Match fishing on canals can be a nightmare, were we have to give a bit, our patience can be stretched to the limit at times.![]()
Weir stream ? There isn't one at Donnington.Only place that I consider fishable there is the grassy bit on the bend by the entrance of the weir stream.
Is that the scout hut at Donnington bridge, ?Weir stream ? There isn't one at Donnington.
Small Cherwell mouth above the boathouses, main Cherwell mouth immediately below boat houses, ditch opposite Long Bridges bathing place in 'The Gut' (the far bank from the main Cherwell mouth to here is actually an island), the shallow inlet above the scouts where the old white boat has been moored for Donkey's years and then the concrete rain ditch at 'The Willows' below Donnington bridge. There's no weir on this stretch.
On your own bank is Hinksey stream coming out immediately above the small arched bridge & boat house and rear entrance to Four Pillars hotel. That comes from Hinksey park and under the Abingdon road (many, many years ago there used to be little matches on this stream !).
Right at the very, very top there is the small stream which comes out under the flat iron bridge which comes from the other side of Folly Bridge.
Well it's called the weirs mill stream donnington in the club book although I guess technically it has a sluice rather than a weir. Comes off the Thames at the bend upstream of donnington bridge then runs under the bridge itself to round the back of iffley meadows before joining Hincksey stream a short distance before that rejoins the Thames.Weir stream ? There isn't one at Donnington.
Small Cherwell mouth above the boathouses, main Cherwell mouth immediately below boat houses, ditch opposite Long Bridges bathing place in 'The Gut' (the far bank from the main Cherwell mouth to here is actually an island), the shallow inlet above the scouts where the old white boat has been moored for Donkey's years and then the concrete rain ditch at 'The Willows' below Donnington bridge. There's no weir on this stretch.
On your own bank is Hinksey stream coming out immediately above the small arched bridge & boat house and rear entrance to Four Pillars hotel. That comes from Hinksey park and under the Abingdon road (many, many years ago there used to be little matches on this stream !).
Right at the very, very top there is the small stream which comes out under the flat iron bridge which comes from the other side of Folly Bridge.