Prebaiting

[rockinruss]

Just wondered what everybody's thoughts were over people prebaiting and then somebody nipping in and fishing over somebody else's hard work? I know it happens alot on most lakes and i have seen a few fall out's between anglers on the bank.

Personally i get quite uncomfortable when i am fishing a swim and then find out somebody had been prebaiting the swim before hand.

But on the other hand, i speak to people who say "It hasn't got there name on the peg"

So would you avoid the swim or fish??

[andy_s]

as it has happened to me in the past then i would definitely move if someone came up and told me, otherwise though how are we to know?

i think its a bit of a grey area but if i had put a fair ammount of bait and not to mention cash then i would not be happy to say the least

[James Furness]

I wouldn't intentionally fish a swim that i knew that someone had been prebaiting but there isn't much you can do if you find a free peg and start fishing it unaware that it had been pre-baited.

Its just a risk you have to take with a prebaiting campaign that someone may fish your peg as at the end of the day once you've paid your membership money etc you've got the same right as anyone else to fish any peg on the lake. That said i would never pitch up and fish a peg i knew someone had been pre-baiting.

[Stig]

If i knew someone had prebaited it i would avoid it maybe fish an adjacent swim and cast to the edge of the bed of bait if i was feeling really cheeky .
However as i want peace and quiet and and trouble free time when i'm fishing i would usually avoid it like the plague .Have had several altercations on the bank where someone has watched me/us prebait for a few nights then when i/we arrived to fish the prebaited swim(S) only to find someone just moving into them . A quiret word soon rectified the situation though

The best venues ive found for trouble free prebaiting are canals find an area as far from the nearest bridge/road access as possible get on your push bike and ride to it every night and prebait the chances of you finding someone in your prebaited swim are minute

[blankmaster]

Originally Posted by MarkeR

we're all entitled to fish where we want on a first come first served basis, chucking some bait into an area doesn't mean you own it although theres usually somebody selfish enough to think that way

yep thats the one matey

you pays your money and takes your chance ,ive done plenty of prebaiting in the past ,and found others fishing on it to its best not to get phased by it coz at the end of the day we all pay for our cards but it dosent give us any rights to be moaning about someone been in your baited peg

blankmaster

[carp junkie]

if i saw someone baiting a swim and new they were gonna fish it the next day or so i would avoid it but only for that time ! the way i see it you cant reserve a swim but common sense has to come into it. but saying that if a guy then dropped on that swim who didnt know someone had baited it should he move or would i ! not a chance they should have got up early and got there 1st

[bigted]

i think for me it depends on the situation, if someone by chance drops in on your hard work and has a result it's fair play, but if your had the misfortune to be observed by some one with zero consideration for your efforts and took advantage, i'm totaly agains it! if someone makes the effort to apply themselves and put time, money and lots and lots of effort into a baiting situation, personaly i'd give them and there swim a wide birth! fish present or not, i think it's the desent thing to do i like to get my own areas going, but if some git jumped in on all my hard work i'd be non to pleased i don't think it's selfish at all.

[smokey]

Originally Posted by James Furness

I wouldn't intentionally fish a swim that i knew that someone had been prebaiting but there isn't much you can do if you find a free peg and start fishing it unaware that it had been pre-baited.

Its just a risk you have to take with a prebaiting campaign that someone may fish your peg as at the end of the day once you've paid your membership money etc you've got the same right as anyone else to fish any peg on the lake. That said i would never pitch up and fish a peg i knew someone had been pre-baiting.

I wont bother typin it as james said it for me lol lol .....Its an Anglers agrement ,,, if i knew then i wudnt fish that spot but if i didnt then i cant be held responsible

smokey

If i had seen someone baiting up then that fair enough, id walk away, but then thats only in a situation where you both turn up at the same time...

If i hadnt seen anyone baiting up and i were in a spot and they were to come over and ask me to move because they had been baiting up then there would be absolutely no way would i would move... not when we all pay the same price for a ticket and there's no reserving swims!!!

The only time i would not fish someone elses baited area would be if someone had picked a completley random spot to bait up that no one else usually fishes and they just wanted to try something completely different or had spent hours watching this spot and then taken time to bait it up and then hopefully get the rewards for there hard and persistant work..

if i know somebody to be baiting an area up , personally i would steer clear of it...............i dont want to be fishing over what could potentially be an area with vast amounts of uneaten bait in , .............i personally prefer to fish to fish well away from it ................I try and find fish to target each session and not wait for them to possibly turn up . Mind you it isnt doing me much good lately...............

[DIRTY DOG]

if you see someone prebaiting and then the fish show up over the prebaited area then ye gonna fish there anyone who ses otherwise i think are probably lying or are a bit of an idiot!

[Deano]

if I knew someone was spending their hardearned on prebaiting a spot I would avoid that area and advise others to do so.....particularly if it was on a regular water with regular anglers, and i think most other anglers would do the same...however if you setup in a pitch and 5 hrs later Mr X turns up and says that he has been prebaiting the swim for X number of days....I wouldnt feel too good about it...BUT would YOU move Probably not..I wouldn't....On a similar note i recently turned up at a local small water...fired out the floaters and up they came...then down came two anglers planning on doing the night......one wanted to fish my spot so i let him...I would like it if I turned up for the night and someone who was only on for a few hours let me get in particularly on a small water......granted I may have had a fish off BUT it might have been me on for the night next time....I suppose I am a bit soft..lol.....but you get the point....

[bash]

pre baiting should be a top secret mission..... i would expect ppl to fish over a baited area if they saw fish on it, thats the way it goes on the waters i fish. its up to me to get bait in a spot thats not regularly fished to give me the best chance of not gettin sussed by the other lads.

[silverbirch]

Whether it's co-ordinated or not, my current venue is getting filled in from 3 seperate banks all into one central spot/area....teamwork?....probabley not...but you could almost fish the swim/area from any one of 8 or more different swims.....politically sound fishing , one for all and all for one, comrade, brothers.
The co-ordinated bombardment appears to be pushing the shell-shocked carp to the margins, though.!!! Had one turning over against the sedges in 2 foot of water at 2.00am this morning, also saw one bow wave out of the main lake for the sanctuary of the 'ducks' when the mid-afternoon 'dinner gong' started to ring!!!!!!

[gazza]

Originally Posted by bash

pre baiting should be a top secret mission..... i would expect ppl to fish over a baited area if they saw fish on it, thats the way it goes on the waters i fish. its up to me to get bait in a spot thats not regularly fished to give me the best chance of not gettin sussed by the other lads.

Spot on Bash. I always thought if your gonna pre-bait do it in areas that others don't fish, then by the time the others figure out what you've been up to you've hopefully had a result