The thread below about jet skis spurred me on to write this:
I went fishing on the upper Trent recently on my day off. Drove an hour, lugged my gear, prepped the swim (great free spot) settled down. A family turns up with a massive canoe on the roof of car, make a load of noise, unload canoe, approach me and ask if its ok to launch the canoe in my swim as its the only accessible point for some distance.
So I'm looking at the excited kids, and the mother/father (even grandpapa was there) and think that's me screwed. if it was just a guy I would have told him quite bluntly no, but with the exited kids....
So I pulled the dad to one side, said I would move (big operation upstream), explained that I had driven a long way, will ruin the swim (all politely) and let them at it. Que: banging splashing and general swim carnage. and to top it off the guy looked at little miffed at me.
What can you do....... I have also had the jet ski thing on the dove.... nightmare.
So I'm thinking maggots in catapult at ready for anything that moves in my swim from this point on....unless anyone else has any idea's.
I went fishing on the upper Trent recently on my day off. Drove an hour, lugged my gear, prepped the swim (great free spot) settled down. A family turns up with a massive canoe on the roof of car, make a load of noise, unload canoe, approach me and ask if its ok to launch the canoe in my swim as its the only accessible point for some distance.
So I'm looking at the excited kids, and the mother/father (even grandpapa was there) and think that's me screwed. if it was just a guy I would have told him quite bluntly no, but with the exited kids....
So I pulled the dad to one side, said I would move (big operation upstream), explained that I had driven a long way, will ruin the swim (all politely) and let them at it. Que: banging splashing and general swim carnage. and to top it off the guy looked at little miffed at me.
What can you do....... I have also had the jet ski thing on the dove.... nightmare.
So I'm thinking maggots in catapult at ready for anything that moves in my swim from this point on....unless anyone else has any idea's.