Yup - these fish have survived several years in the wild and are returning to our rivers to spawn....only to be caught and photographed and most likely die before they reach their destination all to satisfy a horde of guys lining the beaches near the spawning streams. Great sport, eh?Try and have a talk with the people providing daily reports on multimedia and making a post for every fish they catch to boost their internet hero ego!
Yup - these fish have survived several years in the wild and are returning to our rivers to spawn....only to be caught and photographed and most likely die before they reach their destination all to satisfy a horde of guys lining the beaches near the spawning streams. Great sport, eh?
What do you guys is an appropriate distance to give your fellow angler. My thought has always been that you and the guy beside shouldn't be able to overlap casts.....seems reasonable eh?
Yup - these fish have survived several years in the wild and are returning to our rivers to spawn....only to be caught and photographed and most likely die before they reach their destination all to satisfy a horde of guys lining the beaches near the spawning streams. Great sport, eh?
Wow now lets see there's you in your $75,000 fishing machine with all the high tech gear and electronic's compared to a guy on the beach with his spinning rod or fly rod and maybe some waders. Just remember its all sports fishing.. They are well in there right to fish just as you are and nothing stops you from fishing from the beach ?
boucing betty's do the trick, to the side of the boat, seen this alot on the lower vedderI haven't posted much this year because a house build and a guiding stint at Esperanza took me out of the picture however we finally have my wife's dream--- a house on one of those fishing beaches. Etiquette seems to be the watch word among the beach fly and spin casters- they gently release most of their fish-Very impressive !! BUT it really gets my blood boiling when I see a boat push right in towards the shore anglers and crowd their casts--I see it happen at least 3 times a week--all I can say is--it is a wonder the buzz bombs don't come out and a few shots off the window or side might be in order---give the shore guys a break!!
There are several differences between beach fishing at this time of the year and fishing the ocean from a boat during the normal season. Boat fishers work in fairly large areas where the fish are pretty spread out. For the most part, beach fishers are fishing for spawners who are fairly concentrated in a small area while holding before they head up stream to spawn. Right now, there's a rather large concentration of fish holding along beaches near spawning streams that do not yet have enough water to allow the fish to come up stream to fish. I keep the fish I catch (within limits) and am not into catch and release with the attendant higher rate of mortality. Given that most fish returning to spawn are pretty well spent before they get to their spawning streams, I would guess that few of them are kept. So their caught, dragged ashore, released and ???. I've watched the hordes along the shore in Fanny Bay - lots of fish caught - it's easy - very few kept - very few of the released fish will make it to spawn.
No question that what you're doing is perfectly legal, and I suppose sporty for you. Not so sure how sporting it is for the fish. BTW, I accept and understand your criticism. I volunteer at a hatchery and we're very concerned right now because the water level in our creek isn't sufficient to allow the coho that we would normally see at this time of the year to get up to the spawning grounds - and to allow us to get enough brood stock for the hatchery. Every fish that is "caught" where the fish are holding near the mouth of the creek is likely one less that we will see in the river once the rains come (he said optimistically) and the river levels come up.
My only issue is these hero’s with their spent wild fish up on the beach....just to get a pic so they can post it on multimedia! Fishing isn’t about being a hero and bragging on the internet. Fishing is about fishing....maybe I see this differently than some. I’m sorry my daily fishing doesn’t need pics or a report on beaches or the freshwater.
I guess some people need to put wild fish in jepoerdy just to boost their egos. It seems this new age of anglers never had the right building blocks and ethics instilled on them from the start.
Seeing a lot of these loser heroes over the years a lot of the times you can see a progression from pics of every fish on the net...to stopping posting because their honey holes get gonged out with other angler.however some idiots need pics of every single fish just to fill some void within themselves..... The ocean is big....beaches and freshwater aren’t.
Again...just my thoughts