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As we look forward to the new season which starts in just a couple of weeks as i write this, i thought it was time to remind some anglers of the things thst realy irritate me and others whilst fishing. Set the scene out on the loch in a boat and all of a sudden the line pulls tight and you are into a fish. as you play the fish others watch on as you try to tame the trout and get it to the net.

Meanwhile around you other boats start to lift there drogue and set about moving in your general direction, some will pull in behind you and start to follow your drift, this as it stands is permisable. however there are alway's one or two twats that decide they will set up infront of you cutting infront and this inturn can cut your drift short. This is when you turn around to go back to the start of the drift only to find you cant as there are a line of boats right where you just came from.

There are a few anglers who, and this really gets my shirt up as you are fishing away quite happily will motor across your drift all because they saw some fish move or, is it that they are just so desperate that they want to fish all the water. Well that could be the case but to me its just bad manners. Then there are the anchor anglers they plonk them selfves right in the centre of what would be a good drift if it were not for the fact that they are plonked right in the middle of it. They seldom move unless they see that someone else is catching on another drift. then they just haull anchor and plonk themselves slap bang in the middle of that drift. There can be acres of water but they always seen to be right in the middle of what should be a good drift. This practise does ofcourse spoil fishing for others. The problem is some fisheries provide anchors and some dont, most angling clubs do not permit anchoring at competitions and this can sometimes be the problem. The fisheries will obviously want all boats out so when you fish with a club and others are anchoring and you cant (not that you should need to) in fact all it does is lets you fish one area of water and hope that the fish come to you.

 Do any of the anglers reading this comment believe that they agree or disagree whith my comments feel free to add your tuppence worth and comment on any of the blogs topics.

so as we look forward to the new season think before you cut up another boat or stick your boat infront of someone then you may have a good day out

Tight Lines TC