A friend and I fished Brandfontein beach this last week. We were standing 2 meters apart chatting, lines lying straight out at a small gap in front of a hole. Guy arrives, baits up pushes in between us, to the extent that we both had to politely break our conversation and quickly move aside to avoid getting dinged by his rod and sinker, then proceeds to slams a pensioner spike in the ankle deep water. This guy casts 50 meters and at least 15 meters over my line to the right. I politely said that maybe he should stand on my right as he was over my line....which he hadn't even noticed in full light at 15.00 in the afternoon. No answer, no hello, no apology....not even a smile or grunt. The beach is 4-5 kilometers long and at the time, there were only 6 rods on the entire beach....of which 2 were ours. I started a friendly chat with him and it became quite apparent that he had absolutely no idea that what he had just done was not reall
"cricket". After a polite 15 minutes, we quietly reeled in and moved 50
meters down to the next hole. I am getting on these days and
unfortunately cannot tolerate bad manners on the beach any more. I
have been fishing for 40 years and was taught by my father to first introduce myself and then ask if it was possible to throw the same hole. Following this principal, I have always been made welcome and have met many, many great people....some who are still good friends to this day. The etiquette that used to be around for years has now diminished.....forgotten....not passed on? To escape the frustration, I generally fish isolated spots, during the week, never weekends, never public holidays and try avoid school holidays. On returning to the car, my beach trolley had at least 2 kg of bait rubbish that I found on the beach and floating in the shore wash.
Having said all that.....I fished Rooikranz 30 years ago and unfortunately tend to agree that due to the particular space, nature and behavior of the tail.....fishermen need to understand the code of ethic that will certainly apply to that specialized spot. There will be newbies and like the gentleman at Brandfontein......sometimes they actually don't know any better...upbringing, culture, education, or just never been taught or mentored by an experienced fisherman. Sad....as it now restricts my fishing pleasure to weekdays and far away places.
grootvis wrote:
BTTB wrote:
Sorry for resuscitating an old thread but I need to say something important.
I was at Rooikranz today and am disgusted at the litter that was left there over the last few days, most likely this past weekend (7th & 8th of February 2015) by some very inconsiderate people.
Littering in a Nature Reserve at a premier fishing spot which is inaccessible for the Park Cleaners, I mean WTH.
Bottles, plastic and what ranks as the worst thing anyone can leave laying around, coils of nylon fishing line simply just left there?!
Never mind the grumpy old veterans of yesteryear, it was one of them today that picked up all that litter and put it in a bag for disposal.
It really riles me that people can be so stupid and slovenly. If you brought it down, take it back up with you!
There are no bins at Rooikranz, only at the parking area at the top of the mountain, so please take your rubbish back up with you, it is the right thing to do.
Grrr.
That was one of the sole reasons i stopped going there, far too many amateurs and weekenders who dont give a rats @@@ about the place, but most importantly dont have a single bit of ETIQUETTE in there lousy bodies!!
I was chatting to a very legend old salt from Rooikraantz the other day, in conversation, he too was disgusted, and to know, that at least a handful of old regulars dont frequent there anymore, the rest that do , have tried to make it their castle with their own rocks, own man caves, its disgusting and the regulars that do go, should confront these idiots and make them leave with their rubbish, they claim it as their own ledges so, they must also maintain it as their own ledges!!!!
