With the tailing season ramping up, I would like to ask everyone’s thoughts on high tide flats etiquette. How much space do you give someone or group that has gotten to flat first? How much space do expect when you are the first on some “prime grounds”? Do “polers” yield for “walkers” or the other way around?
My apologies for not posting this in the “discussion” forum, but this group seems to spend the most time in the grass.
Declaring Jihad on fish, yours truely, Captain Ron
I say if you get to a flat and there is someone else on it already…keep moving. Have backup b, c and d ready. However, if you are walking and there is an impassible creek channel between you and another walker, I would say you are ok. I go solo a lot and really don’t mind someone else around, but that’s just me.
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Originally posted by CaptainRonWith the tailing season ramping up, I would like to ask everyone’s thoughts on high tide flats etiquette. How much space do you give someone or group that has gotten to flat first? How much space do expect when you are the first on some “prime grounds”? Do “polers” yield for “walkers” or the other way around?
My apologies for not posting this in the “discussion” forum, but this group seems to spend the most time in the grass.
Declaring Jihad on fish, yours truely, Captain Ron
Pretty much a “General Fishing” question, I think.
Point one: If you get to the fishing spot either 10 minutes early or 90 minutes early… are you disturbing the fishing ground? I remember rolling up on a high tide spot and seeing a guy (two guys) throwing a cast net on live bait in “The Grass”. Knew the spot and knew that they would do nothing to disturb our day of fishing. They didn’t and we caught fish.
Point two: I agree with “SC2079BS”: “I go solo a lot and really don’t mind someone else around…” When I see someone working/scouting the same fishing ground as me, I point my 9 feet of rod towards a fish I think HE has a better shot at than me in order to put my fellow fisherman on a good fishing opportunity. But, if he is ‘crapping up’ the area with bad fishing… I block him off the fishing ground if I got there first.
Just MY method.
if you can talk in a normal tone and they can hear you clearly you are WAY too close… If someone is there before you give them a wide berth and act like you’d like someone to treat you. All you can really do. I used to do a lot kayaking and while I was standing in the grass to dolts rolled up 20 ft away, where I was looking for fish and posted up like nothing was wrong… do what YOU would like other to do and hope for the best…
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Originally posted by nikonjedi…I used to do a lot kayaking and while I was standing in the grass to dolts rolled up 20 ft away, where I was looking for fish and posted up like nothing was wrong…
</font id=“quote”></blockquote id=“quote”>While I was standing in water just enough to float a boat and with fly rod in hand, I guy trolls up to me and while making a loop around me asks, “catching any?”Doesn’t sound like it could be but, hand to God, true story.