Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[matthawkins]

I've only been fishing for a year now and I know I have lots to learn and see...
I've been up to Deer Lake in Harrison twice in the last 2 weeks and I watched this old man fishing with his wife and using a slingshot.
He fishing with weights and what looks like some sort of power bait and after he casts his line out, he takes his slingshot and shoots a bunch of rocks all over the lake.
Is this a normal thing? Why do this? My guess was to scare the fish towards his lure?

[koko]

I think he need anger managment.

[300zxfairlady]

Well I know that certain carp fishermans use slingshots to shoot bait out to where their rig is. Creates a feeding frenzy and makes carps less wary of the hooked piece of bait. If he was using rocks then I'm stumped.. Sling shooting ur weight n rig out wouldn't be a bad idea though haha

[ejeffrey]

Maybe he's just bored waiting for a bite.
So why not kill two birds with one stone?? 

[typhoon]

Well I know that certain carp fishermans use slingshots to shoot bait out to where their rig is. Creates a feeding frenzy and makes carps less wary of the hooked piece of bait.

Chumming is illegal in B.C.
p9
http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/fw/fish/regulations/docs/1113/fishing-synopsis_2011-13_provincial.pdf

I agree - likely he's just bored and needs a fly rod.

[Spooner]

Nobody said that carp fisherman was in BC.
Fairly common practice elsewhere

[typhoon]

Nobody said that carp fisherman was in BC.
Fairly common practice elsewhere

It may be common practice but it is not sporting, and this is FWR: British Columbia's Web-based Angling Community.

[Spooner]

So i shouldnt comment on fishing anywhere else but BC !?
WHAT?? Didn't agree, just saying was all....

[typhoon]

So i shouldnt comment on fishing anywhere else but BC !?
WHAT?? Didn't agree, just saying was all....

I'm just saying it is reasonable to assume the comment refers to BC.

[Spooner]

I'll leave the assuming to you .
Tight lines !!!

[Fillibert]

chumming for coarse fish like carp should be allowed. I don't know much about the consequences but it's not the same as chumming for game fish that are overfished
Yes Rod you are right in a way (next post) but how is our water different from everywhere else it is allowed.

[Rodney]

Overfishing is not the primary reason of the prohibition of chumming. Chumming can result in eutrophication due to significant addition of nutrients, resulting in hypoxia (depletion of dissolved oxygen) and increase of fish mortality.

[clarki]

Nah, he was just bored. In my youth days in Ontario, in between bites of catfish and carp, I would do the same thing with my air rifle 

[matthawkins]

He was only using rocks, watched him picking them up off the beach the whole time.
It was bizarre to me and I'm guessing that he was just bored then. Just didn't know if it might have been some practice I'd never heard about.
Never meant to get some crazy discussion about chumming going on here 

[Fillibert]

I watched a bunch of carping videos once and a guy was saying that carp hear pellets being thrown in the water and come to feed on them. Granted that's in areas that are chummed all the time but maybe... nah he was probably just bored.