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Conference wahoo::fishing-v2

Title:	Fishing-V2: All About Angling
Notice:	Time to go fishin'! dayegins
Moderator:	WAHOO::LEVESQUE

Created:	Fri Jul 19 1991
Last Modified:	Wed Jun 04 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	548
Total number of notes:	9621

411.0. "(Surf Casting) A couple of questions" by BASLG1::BURNLEY () Mon Sep 12 1994 02:26

    
    I have a couple of questions som-one out tyhere may be able to help
    me with.
    
    1.	How dangerous is Beach Fishing when there is Lighting about? I
    	Was out at Langley point ( south coast of England) on Saturday
    	in the middle of a very impressive storm, when it "struck" me 
    	that waving around two 13ft Carbon Fibre rods may not be the 
    	best thing to do, so I packed up and went home. Other people
    	down the beach however seemed oblivious to the danger.
    
    2.	Any advice on storing and fishing with Frozen Baits?
    	Can you refreeze Lug or Rag? Should you try to bait the hook 
    	with the worm frozen or let it defrost a bit?
    
    Thanks
    
    Martin.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
411.1	Safe and Sane, Thanks	ESBLAB::TATOSIAN	The Compleat Tangler	`Mon Sep 12 1994 16:24`	15
	re: .0 If you're the tallest thing in the immediate vicinity and you're holding up a conductive "mast" with a hundred feet of wet line hanging from it, I'd say you're betting against mother nature that you're gonna live to tell the tale... Everything is relative, but I can tell you that if I see a bolt out of the blue and I'm thrashing about with a graphite fly rod, I'm OUTTA THERE! whether I'm in a boat, on the beach, or chest-deep in a stream... Seems to me those "other people down the beach" are more than just oblivious (unconscious leaps to mind ;^) /dave (fishin' is a great sport but nothing to lose your life over)
411.2	Better safe than Dead!	BASLG1::BURNLEY		`Tue Sep 13 1994 02:10`	2
	Thanks, Thats what i thought!
411.3	yup, & watch for power lines also	ECADSR::BIRO		`Thu Sep 15 1994 08:14`	19
	I just read a story that when the longer graphite fly rods were introduce in the UK that the leading cause of death for fly fishing was caused by electrocution. A popular place to fish in the UK the story when on to say was on the bank of cannels that have power lines next to it. The new graphite rods are conductors and the longer rods where hitting the power lines. The rule that I have heard for towers in a typical New England type hills is that the there is a 4x times the hight of the tower area that if lighting was going to hit in that area it will now hit the tower. If you have a 10 ft rod then it would be a 40 ft radius... plus I think it would be higher then that as you are in a flat land area. So one should also look out for power lines, some of the newer rods are conductive. enjoy john
411.4		BASLG1::BURNLEY		`Thu Sep 15 1994 08:31`	15
	ref .3 Its not only fly rods that are the problem over here. (Europe) In the last 10 years or so, as it has got a lot harder to catch fish, Match (competition) fisherman have started to use "poles" these are carbon fibre poles upto 15 meters (50 odd feet) long. I wont go into the method involved using these things (unless anyone is interesed) but I beieve fishing is now the most dangerous pass-time in the UK. Most of the deaths are caused by power lines. All rod in the UK now carry warnings about the danger of electrocution
411.5		AYOV11::SROBERTSON		`Thu Sep 15 1994 11:31`	7
	There's power lines right above me when casting at a local loch, they are quite low and the first time I cast at this loch I put my bait,steel leader and line straight over the wire - the line was cut before the bait hit the water.My rod hasn't any graphite in it but I wasn't taking any chances -