Has any one else who fishes from a boat noticed the amont of ass h...,s there are around ? Was on Corrib to day and the madness is starting, lads motoring up and down over prime fishing ground cutting in on drifts. what the **** is wrong with these people, there is plenty of water and plenty of fish i think some lads need to take a chill pill be for they go out for a day on The lake !

That could be the problem! They have taken a pill, or something, before they started fishing!! The other problem is lack of respect. For themselves, for others, for the environment, the sport and the quarrie.
Rod.

This subject comes up again and again.
I am not a boat/reservoir fisher but did once take a boat out at Draycote.
Now, this is the interesting bit... At no point did any of the fishery staff explain anything about boat fishing etiquette, etc. Just handed over the keys and off I went. I wouldn't know a boat on a drift if I hit one! (I didn't BTW, it was a quiet day...). Point is that I could have broken all sort of rules and been none the wiser but slightly confused as to why other boat fisherman kept on shouting at me...
I would like to think that 99% of the annoying incidents related in various posts are down to ignorance rather than anything else and the blame for this can be laid at the feet of fishery staff/owners.

Andy

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I think Corrib you will find that yesterday there was a big comp on and I'll bet you the guys cutting you up were fishing that. Some ( not all of them ) of them would drive over their granny to get into an area to try to win. Best avoid the lough on days when those guys are out or else go fish a part of the lough as far away from where the comp went out from. Manners on the western loughs is some thing that has gone down hill rapidly in the last few years,mind you I think thats just modern society for you.
Tight Lines
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I think this is an excellent point well made.

Graham

Hi,

I have fished the mighty Corrib for over 10 years now.I have witnessed idiots
at Corrib and Mask.But what has worried me for some time is the Wild Fish Killers.Some of the Welsh so called International Fisherman are going to Corrib
every year and fishing so called competitions between themselves and taking
good fish.These fish can not be replaced easily and take years to grow to specimen size.

We do not need to eat these fish ! So Why kill them ?

When we follow these idiots into the big fish areas we have noticed the rapid
decline in fish numbers.

They know who they are.

Well said that man. Your not the only one who has noticed this.....
Tight Lines
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I find what Silver Fox has written really disappointing. I think it's quite sad that lads would travel to a wild trout fishery, fish a comp between themselves, and be knocking fish on the head.

We fish Lough Conn every year - sometimes twice a year - five or six of us, and I can't imagine that any one of the boys would want to be clonking any fish when we go. I guess that there is no consideration being given by these guys going to Corrib and doing that - no consideration on a number of levels. Poor show.

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Do they stay in Oughterard by any chance and pillage Mogan's bay with the buzzers? Never met them, but heard some pretty sad reports.

That's the group, have personally witnessed them taking a lot of fish, they had a lovely 7.5lb fish down the lake a few years ago that got the business end of a priest. There was a time when they only hired 4hp engines and this limited there fishing time and reach but a lot of them now have 15's. Have tackled them on the subject of killing fish on mass and the reply I got was the wild fish taste better then the stockies they get in the UK, they freeze there fish for transport home.... Not a great situation.