09-26-2006, 06:43 PM
[#ff4040][size 1]"As you may or may not know, stream fishermen usually work upstream."[/size][/#ff4040]
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[cool][#0000ff][size 1]That may be what you are used to doing, but it is not everybody's way of fishing. Fly flingers usually work upstream, but many bait dunkers and spinner fishermen do just the opposite. [/size][/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff][size 1]As you are no doubt painfully aware, this is Utah and the water in question is the Sevier River, not a private stream in Scotland. The only rules seem to be that there are no rules. If you try to hold everybody else to your standards you will continually be frustrated and stressed.[/size][/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff][size 1]Many of us were "properly trained" by our fishing teachers to observe some measure of fishing etiquette. Unfortunately, many anglers are "self taught" or poorly taught and think nothing of just barging right in and flinging their own bait or lures in the same spot another angler is already fishing. Bad manners and poor sportsmanship but not something you can do much about...except go somewhere not subject to roadside angling and inconsiderate fishermen.[/size][/#0000ff]
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[cool][#0000ff][size 1]That may be what you are used to doing, but it is not everybody's way of fishing. Fly flingers usually work upstream, but many bait dunkers and spinner fishermen do just the opposite. [/size][/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff][size 1]As you are no doubt painfully aware, this is Utah and the water in question is the Sevier River, not a private stream in Scotland. The only rules seem to be that there are no rules. If you try to hold everybody else to your standards you will continually be frustrated and stressed.[/size][/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff][size 1]Many of us were "properly trained" by our fishing teachers to observe some measure of fishing etiquette. Unfortunately, many anglers are "self taught" or poorly taught and think nothing of just barging right in and flinging their own bait or lures in the same spot another angler is already fishing. Bad manners and poor sportsmanship but not something you can do much about...except go somewhere not subject to roadside angling and inconsiderate fishermen.[/size][/#0000ff]
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