Interested In knowing people's opinions on getting buckets of water lobbed over you when they catch a personal best ??

Mine is I think it's a bl@@dy daft fad and unsafe when the fish is being held . Could easily flip and get dropped ..

In reply to Post #1
I couldn't agree more, probably started off by a tackle company on either there free dvds year's ago or on YouTube, thank god I keep myself to myself so very few know what I catch, I'm not one of these who needs a pat on the back and certainly don't want water throwing at me

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I just don't get it ....... especially in winter .. its the fish safety .. all it takes is it to flip and you drop it ..
I just watched a clip of a fella fishing on the boards at Drayton with a 21lb pb and loads of buckets come raining in ...
I'm like you I'm glad I fish alone 99% of the time ..

In reply to Post #1
I think it's pretty daft too , I also fish mainly alone and keep myself to myself , I've never had a soaking for a PB and it will stay this way.

In reply to Post #3
Bloody stupid idea imo,if it's at end of a session and no fish in arms then it's upto them I guess

Agree, don't get it. Perhaps aborad on a fishing holiday after you've returned the fish / during a water shot but not on the bank.

I either fish alone or with one mate and we've made a pact not to do that nonsense.

In reply to Post #1
What a load of grumpy old men

I totally agree by the way 🤣

In reply to Post #7
Maybe we are all grumpy old fellas lol .

It does seem to be a modern day thing ..... 😕

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I think the fish safety pov is the best reason why you shouldn't do it, never mind Weils disease/other, but if you're convinced you're o.k then fill your boots

Personally if someone tried it on me they'd be getting followed (after the fish was returned safely) and getting a swift kick in the nads

Can't see point in doing it what happens if you swallow some of that water and there's rats and other vermin about as well as fish safety too,no thank you I also fish mainly on my own with the occasional once a year session with a friend but we fish different types of waters anyway but we'd never do anything like that

In reply to Post #9
I'd throw them in the lake 😂

In reply to Post #3
There seems to be a growing trend of pictures on Socal media being more important than fish safety. Mats placed on concrete paths when there is a nice grass spot right next to the path. Or the 2 fish on the mat . Or even worse 2 fish in there arms. Nash seem to be the worse for this . But they are not alone. I don't understand with modern camera filming equipment why they need to keep them till daylight.

In reply to Post #12
I agree .. its nice to get a good shot of the prize but thesafety of the fish is more important than the picture . You hear of stories of fish being kept out of the water too long just so they can get good video footage and pics ..

I bet there's a social media post of someone tipping their own bucket of water over their own heads with the fish at their feet on the mat

It so absurd you know it has to have been done...odd world

EDIT, and then there will be the one....have you seen what the old fogies on the CF have been saying again...they're so out of touch

EDIT 2...oh god, why have I got the beach turd scene from Kevin & Perry going through my mind

For those not old enough Click here

In reply to Post #1
I find it very cringy to be honest. When people do it whilst holding a fish aswell is just rediculous in so many ways.

In reply to Post #10
I think the people who do this, with the fish in their arms, probably deserve to catch something horrible. The Korda boys are one of the worst proponents of this practice. In my opinion it should be banned. Even if you are in the water, the fish could still be damaged.

I see no fun in that, guess I'm a grumpy old sod as well, happy to say, I've never witnessed it on any water I've fished, but, if a group of good friends enjoy it, crack on.

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In reply to Post #1
I'm not going to judge anyone else's choices but personally I wouldn't due to Weil's disease risk.

Grade one stupidity..

If someone did that to me ,I'd thump em ,very ,very hard...!

If it makes the person being soaked happy I dont see any real harm

but on a personal note I think its bloody silly and if anyone had done it to me I really would not mess about
they would have a bankstick slapped across their lip followed by being slung in the lake

I'm surprised fishery owners go to the lengths of posting it online too. It should be banned by them, not encouraged

In reply to Post #22
There are a few proper venues that have banned it

In reply to Post #23
TBH it's a bit embarrassing when someone does the whiole bucket thing with the size of some fish you see

Completely ghey and retarded, but hey, there are worse things in angling, and life. I think it stems from the obsession in today's culture to create rituals and special moments which everybody copies. I mean, gender reveals parties, what's that then?

:P

In reply to Post #25
I know, when I heard my nephew, say he was going to his cousins, " Gender reveal party" I thought, "What the hell is this family coming to"?

In reply to Post #21
Imagine it G, you can't touch me (grabs buy the scruff of the neck), you can't push me (edged closer to the lake) you can't throw me in there (splash)

In reply to Post #21
Slapped across their lip.... stuck up their arse more like! Like you its not for me.... the bucket of water i mean! Lol

In reply to Post #27
I've seen it happen on Creedy lake in Devon..

Chap ,oi ,don't cross my lines with baitboat

Phallus...I can do what I like

Chap ,cross me again ,I'll throw you in

Phallus...drives Baitboat over lines, Chap who is 5ft 7 ex army from Bridgewater..walks around to Phallus..

Splash, ripples,....!!!

So much fun...!!!!

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In reply to Post #27
Many years ago, there was a bailiff on the lake I fished who would deal with anyone caught " Guesting" by throwing them off the bridge into the lake. He was not the most popular guy. However you didn't take the piss with him around.

In reply to Post #1
Always thought a stupid thing to do !

With the state of some of the lake water in some ponds i certainly wouldn't want a bucket full over me!

In reply to Post #33
Yep, yet alone the rivers, a face full of diluted raw sewage....

Ridiculous thing to do, puts the angler at risk of potential waterborne disease and if done over a mat on land puts the fish at risk as well

Michael

In reply to Post #31
Lol thats the way to do it!

In reply to Post #1
Stupid fad, bit like kissing them and splashing them as they swim off. What's wrong with a shake of the hand and a 'well done'.

In reply to Post #37
What about grabbing the Tail on release to up end them so they nose dive into the bottom

I happily obliged with a bucket of water when my pal caught his PB from Gigantica earlier this year. That said, all fish of 50lb can't be taken from the water unless being weighed. Therefore the pictures were done in the water and that's when we soaked him.

I can't see the harm in that....

PS - I hear the Weils argument, but there are more open water swimming clubs out there than ever before, so if the risk was that great I'm sure these wouldn't exist???

In reply to Post #28
TURKED.

In reply to Post #39
PS - I hear the Weils argument, but there are more open water swimming clubs out there than ever before, so if the risk was that great I'm sure these wouldn't exist???

'Idiot' is a strong word but suitable for the description of people who knowingly swim in waters that are regularly awash with untreated sewage thanks to the inaction of the authorities.
'Clever idiots' in the case of the boat race.

Who knows, maybe its a ploy for a civil action!

In reply to Post #39
I hear the Weils argument, but there are more open water swimming clubs out there than ever before, so if the risk was that great I'm sure these wouldn't exist
REALLY !!!!
BEHAVE PLEASE
generally we are mainly talking about pits and lakes stocked with Carp and due to the masses of dropped bait the rat population explodes as does the very REAL RISK of catching Weils prime example is carp forum member Dear KenTownley !
CHECK OUT the stickies section Weils Disease sounds like it will be an education for you mate no offence intended
PS. funny enough Gigantia with its size and very deep average waters is probably one of the safer lakes

Makes me wonder about the mentality of some of these new breed of suffering on purpose people ,like wild swimmers..
Seemingly they know some places that have a fecal discharge and yet still swim in those conditions.



Same as signs up on the big moorland ressi,'no swimming due to dangerous undercurrents '. So what do they do ,swim at dusk ,when no one can see them ,very dangerous thing to do..

No one is invincible.

In reply to Post #42
I have read Ken's account of Weils disease. It's clearly horrendous so do not try to imply that I'm diminishing the effects of the disease itself.

I was merely pointing out that if a sport, participated regularly by hundreds of thousands of people, including a club on a very popular carp lake near me, that has 600 swimming members that take part regularly, plus the occupations that face the leptospirosis risk (vets & farmers etc) and in total (after a quick google) there are less than 40 cases of leptospirosis per year with only 10% morphing into Weils, so that's 4/5 cases a year, I'm not sure the risk is that great from a statistical point of view.

Being near water regardless is dangerous whichever way you look at it,I remember when I was living down in Southampton and I came down to do a week on the river itchen,I had a guy come up to me and said you've just missed the BBC reporters down here and cmaera crew,apparently they had 5 canoeists on the river and 3 of them caught weils disease.

In reply to Post #44
your right it isnt, the reason its banged on about is awareness so you can inform a doctor at the early signs and force their hand to check for it, as most wont, they label it as flu as it present just like it. The whole "it's everywhere and you will die unless you drink sanitiser every time you go within 5m of any water" things is hysteria. Same people saying it do so many other things that put them at more risk of death, driving to the lake, sitting next to carbon rods in a lightning storm, sitting under a tree in strong winds, having a smoke, drinking or eating with the risk of choking to death.
More likely to get an eye infection than Weils if a bucket of water is thrown on you.

Whole thing seems daft just on the basis that who likes having cold water thrown over them whilst fully dressed, let alone anything else.
Each to their own, I'd rather a soaking in beer or a bottle of fizz tbh!

In reply to Post #44
OK well those statistics dont mean diddly squat
as Weils is hardly ever detected cos they constantly miss diagnose it as its NOT TESTED FOR IT !! cos the symptoms fit loads of other things
same as Limes disease a very good friend of mine the well known big fish angler Ian Grey in 2016 got very ill loads of test and results all saying things a viral infection the flue etc it marched on progressing and got so bad he had to retire from work then

ok I hope he dont mind me reposting from his web page and OLD SCHOOL TOYS it just might help someone

AFTER 30 MONTHS, back and forward to my gp /hospital. Finally after 2 grand and a private consultant, LYME AND ANAPLASMOSIS ..Big thank you to Darren Greaves and DR SHARON MARLOWE!! -.who listened to me, sent my my blood's to Porton Down
if it had been tested for 30 months previous there would of been a chance of treating it and stopping it destroying vital parts of his body

sadly its marched on since then and he is now very severely disabled and can hardly walk cannot go fishing any more or do much of anything
ALL BECAUSE NOBODY THOUGHT TO TEST HIM FOR LIMES AS ITS SO RARE !!! and will always be !!...........so will Weils

it will now finally kill him
we have no way of knowing how many people have/will die of Weils or limes because they are never tested for it so death`s are recorded as something else
BOTTOM LINE
if you go to a water with a large rat population you would be wise to take lots of precautions IMHO

In reply to Post #37
Stupid fad, bit like kissing them and splashing them as they swim off. What's wrong with a shake of the hand and a 'well done

They haven't got hands for a start.....

I think this newspaper article in the news today sums it up why we should avoid as much contact with the water as possible and contracting weils disease: -

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13455385/Child-contracts-Weils-disease-poorly-going-swimming-river-Essex.html

In reply to Post #47
as Weils is hardly ever detected cos they constantly miss diagnose it as its NOT TESTED FOR IT !! cos the symptoms fit loads of other things same as Limes disease

You beat me to it Gerry, in all honesty Lymes disease worries me more than Weils as it's far more common imo, especially abroad. I got the bullseye when in France, came back, took about a week to get to see my Dr and he said by that time it was too late for the anti biotics and even then there wasn't a reliable test for it. A totally debilitating disease, just take one look at Avril Lavine

I've posted this link before on the forum many years ago but in case anyones not seen it, worth a look forewarned is forearmed.

Click here

Not for me, silly idea that somehow caught on.

In reply to Post #51
Anyone see the farlows post yesterday on the socials with the guy getting about 10 buckets thrown over him while holding his pb fish in a gravelled swim . Pathetic

In reply to Post #50
The massive UK deer population has lead to the increase of tick infestations, the carrier of Lymes.

Check yourself for Ticks if you have been anywhere where deer are present.