In article 432a9049.0@entanet, Eric The Viking
wrote:

"Derek.Moody" wrote in message
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Some would check the weather forecast and put in brownie points at home
until the storm is dropping and the disturbed bait is dropping out of the
water column into the gutter...

Some of the best fishing is in stormy weather, not to mention to
exhilaration of your nostrils being force fed sea air at 40 MPH! Or match

I would never suggest a beginner fished in the teeth of a f8 gale. It's
risky even for experienced anglers especially in NW Scotland.

fishing for that matter, if you turn up for a match and it's blowing a
hoolie you will stand a better chance oif winning if you can fish the
conditions. Ok, match fishing isn't everything but it's another aspect of
fishing that benefits from a wide range of techniques and tools.

No sane organiser would continue in such conditions, there will be some
sort of alternative venue or a postponement.


The OP actually started the thread by asking a genuine question about
casting distances and hasn't necessarily been mislead into anything. I

It was clear from the question that he had already been misled.

think its more misleading to summarily dismiss 'heavy fishing' and coax the

I don't recall dismissing heavy fishing anywhere in this thread. Perhaps
you can remind me where I did so.

If you predominantly use a fly rod then you are going to catch more fish on
a fly rod. If you always use a beachcaster then you will always catch fish
on a beachcaster.

Quite. I bet I have more fun though :-)

I have fished matches where I have been stuffed by anglers using coarse gear
to catch Mullet - I fished for Wrasse with heavy gear and blanked, they used
match rods and weighed in 7 or 8lbs. I have also fished matches where I
have stuffed people using match gear, they caught no Mullet, I caught a 13lb
Conger. Who was right?

None of you. Matchfishing is another highly specialised regime which is
over reported in the angling press and seriously misleads beginners. You
would almost certainly have caught more if you had not entered the match in
the first place.

On another local beach (Chesil) organisers took to banning floatfishing
with
groundbait for gar and scad because the same two or three anglers were
winning everything.

I have fished these matches on Chesil, personally I think the ban is a good
thing as often 1st prize would go to 45lbs of Garfish. Thats just absolute
slaughter. Besides catching garfish after garfish after garfish just gets
plain boring after an hour or two. I usually fish two rods in these

So now light tackle is to be eschewed because you catch more?
My original point was?

Cheerio,

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