I need your help

[Fishkiller]

I was at the lake fishing, didn't have a dive buddy.

Ok so after four divers surface near a fishing pier, the fishermen there started yelling at the divers, things like your scaring all the fish away ect...after one lady threated to piss in their mask, I chimmed in and corrected her it's piss in your wetsuit. but I degress..

I own a National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame World Record, and happend to have a copy showing my name to the people. soon the situation was calm, and the sheriff wasn't notified.

I need more information on fish behavior in regaurds to interaction with divers. other than the fact that I watched a guy hand feed BASS on my last dive.

any information will be appreciative

"that's why it is called fishing not catching"

 

[Walter]

I avoid diving near folks who are fishing out of courtesy. It doesn't really matter if I am scaring fish away or attracting fish to the lines. What matters is the fishermen's perception of my effect. Generally, fish ignore a slow moving diver unless the diver's activities threaten fish or produce food. Some activities do scare away fish while others attract them.

A larger concern for me would be the safety of the divers. There are cases of a hooked diver being brought to the surface quickly and getting bent as a result.

I don't like it when a fisherman drops a line in the water on top of me, likewise, I don't dive very close to where someone is already fishing.

WWW™

 

[Rick Murchison]

Perhaps this will help in understanding...
I have a brother-in-law named Rusty, and he has another brother-in-law named Gary, who is a funny man. When we go fishing together, Gary will whisper an aside "Watch this.. in about half a minute Rusty'll start cussin' the boat." and sure enough, half a minute later Rusty'll be cussin' the boat. Later, Gary will whisper another aside "Watch.. he's fixin' to start cussin' the bait." and Rusty'll oblige shortly by cussin' the bait. Soon, Rusty will be cussin' the rod, the reel, the line, the fish, the weather, the water, other boaters and fishermen, and, if any divers were to surface, he'd cuss them too.
Fishermen rarely catch what they think they *should* catch, and will blame whatever's handy. If divers are handy, they'll get blamed. Never mind the facts - the fisherman isn't interested in the facts... just a handy scapegoat.
Rick

 

[OceanSpirit]

Down on the south coast of the UK we have a very, very popular dive site. It is a smallish pier at a wee place called Swanage. To say this gets crowded is an understatement! At the weekends during the summer, fishermen line the sides, while below, dozens of divers rummage around. Now here's the funny thing. The fisherman catch lots of fish and the divers all have a long pleasant dive.
I've never seen any altercations at any time.

And you thought Brits were quarrelsome!

 

[The Chairman]

Hey All,

We were at a popular spring (no fishing allowed) when my instructor pulls out a "Pocket Fisherman" from somewhere deep in his BC. He pops to the surface, casts and then descends. Now the clarity is a couple hundred feet easy, so we swim to where his retreive will pass a very large bass. He manipulates the lure well, and bingo hooks a lunker. He fights this fish for ten or more minutes under water, and it is a sight to see with that bass just a fighting away.... it even made a couple of jumps!

Of course, once he got the bass in, he released it, but it really cool to see it like that. When we get out of the spring a Park Ranger approaches us... "ya'll weren't fishing in the spring were you?" The instructor just deadpans... "Now how in the world can we do that?" The Park Ranger just walked away.

Of course, I DO NOT reccomend fishing in a no fishing area. If caught, my instructor could have lost MORE than his "Pocket Fisherman"... they could have confiscated his dive gear as well. The Park Ranger KNEW what he had done, and I think he was amused as well, which is why he didn't push it and search us. Still, I was uncomfortable the whole time, and I did have to rethink how much I trusted this instructor to follow the rules.

 

[The Chairman]

Hey Fishkiller...

Come on, come on, tell us your fish story. What did you catch and actually how big was it?

 

[Fandango]

I fish and I dive but I never fish or dive around either one of me!

 

[Fishkiller]

A 14 pound 8 ounce 32 inch, Ctenopharyngodon idella or a White Amur or a Grass Carp was caught on September 12,1999 approx 10:30 am using 2 pound monofiliment line.

the end result of about a 2 year quest.

It is easier to SCUBA than set a world record fishing.
Frustration levels hmmm hmmm simular





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