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Hi All,
Please may I ask what Anglers think about there safety on RIVER BANKS and not pool banks please, I am just interested in what Anglers think about there safety on RIVER BANK ?
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Posted on September 20, 2017 at 7:18 PM
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Re: River banks safety
Hi Dale, It's not something that has particularly bothered me in the past.
I did have a bit of a rude awakening on the Severn a couple of years back. It had a couple of foot on summer levels and it wasn't the best days weather. I was fine in the pitch I'd chosen, steps has been cut by the work party and I had no trouble getting into the peg. It rained, them it rained some more, then it seriously rained. In the end I decided to call it a day.
The problem was the bank was very slippery, even my big boots couldn't get much traction. If I started to slip half way up the bank there was no way I could avoid ending up in the water. I took the rod bag up first by treading on the vegetation, coming back down was a nightmare, even using a long bank stick as a prop. Eventually I got everything onto the path but I was seriously worried doing so.
Not much BAA can do to prevent such problems, it's down to us to be careful.
If BAA can keep vegetation in check on access paths and cut steps down to the water that's as much as I would expect. If you have a better plan I'm all for it.
Posted on September 20, 2017 at 9:43 PM
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Re: River banks safety just asking please
Hi Curry,
I do have plans but I would just like to get what people think about how they think river banks all for now. And if I get lots of people saying what they think about the way they are setting on the banks and find it hard to get down and to get back up banks all the batter for what my idea's are but until then I would like to keep them to myself sorry.
Posted on September 20, 2017 at 10:04 PM
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Re: River banks safety just asking please
A friend of mine always used to wear his rugby boots for grip when fishing on the Teme.I'm surprised that tackle companies haven't designed some kind of studded boots.I also always carry a dog spike and a rope.
Posted on September 20, 2017 at 10:06 PM
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Re: River banks safety just asking please
Being so close to a river, or any water always comes with an element of danger, and it's up to the individual to access that and take precautions. I don't want to wrapped cotton wool and I am happy to look after myself. That's one of the reasons I enjoy rivers, We don't see many fatalities really although we should never be complacent.
Posted on September 20, 2017 at 10:55 PM
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Re: River banks safety just asking please
I guess we've all had a few hairy moments, I had a similar experience to Curry many years ago on the Teme at Eastham Bridge.
Had a great time on a very rainy day and a rising river - caught a load of barbel and chub.
Just about managed to get myself and my gear back up the bank after a monumental physical effort. At one point I started to think I wasn't going to make it. Was absolutely plastered in mud and stood in the pouring rain for a while just to get the worst washed off.
As a consequence I take a lot more care on venues with steep banks and will use a rope and dog spike if in any doubt.
Though I did get caught out on the Severn a year or so back, slipped down the bank and sprained my ankle badly. Wasn't particularly wet or muddy, just the grass was wet with dew and very slippery.
Be careful out there!
Posted on September 21, 2017 at 1:48 PM
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Re: River banks safety just asking please
I tried wearing golf shoes once, as I thought it'd be a good idea, what with the spikes on the soles, and being waterproof - DON'T DO THIS !!. - they worked well at first, but the spikes started to 'pick up' the mud, until I'd got half an inch of compacted, wet mud stuck to the underside of the shoes, rendering the spikes useless - I now had the situation of mud-on-mud - lethal - like walking on an ice rink. As suggested, a 'studded' type of boot might work cos studs may not pick up mud like spikes do.
With the more difficult pegs, would it be an idea to put a hand rail on one side - or sink wooden posts in, a few feet apart, just for something to grab hold of for a bit of stability. It's easy for me to suggest more toil for the work parties - when I just go and fish, and don't do any work myself (apart from pick up litter when I see some), but can I just say that all the work you guys have done is very much appreciated, and is no way taken for granted. . . . . well done
Posted on September 21, 2017 at 2:39 PM
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Re: River banks safety just asking please
I can see where this thread could be heading so please please please can we leave things as they are, the difficult swims should be left difficult as there are so many easy ones. We know the potential danger when faced with a steep bank. Some swims I love as they are hard to get to therefore quite unfished whereas others I think 'no i'm not getting down there', and these seem to increase each year along with my grey hairs, and that's how it should be. I don't want them made more accessible just because i'm getting less mobile.
I belong to another club down here who has urbanised almost every fishery they have got and it's made a lot of the waters look hideous, you may as well go fish those horrible little concrete ponds you get in urban areas that are full of goose poo and yummy mummys pushing prams that cost more than your car. Can we leave areas of the Teme and Severn alone as their wilderness makes someone like me drive the three hours to get there as it's so damn beautiful. I know good intentions are at heart here and no one want to see anyone hurt but handrails lead to woodchip platforms which lead to woodchip paths and eventually concrete.
Or we could open urbanise it a bit, then a bit more....
Rant over
Posted on September 22, 2017 at 7:57 AM
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Re: River banks safety just asking please
Hornet, 100% with you.
Posted on September 23, 2017 at 12:37 PM
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Re: River banks safety just asking please
Leave the banks alone!
I recently upset the secretary of a local association that has a pool by describing what was once a beautiful pool that they own as looking "like a muddy ditch in a scaffolders yard" after they had gone in and installed a bunch of platforms over the water.
He wasn't very happy and I suspect that I wasn't the first to make a negative comment.
Posted on September 24, 2017 at 3:23 PM
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Re: River banks safety just asking please
Try and "urbanise" a spate river like the Wye and you'll find your platforms in Chepstow. Unfortunately, getting old comes to all of us and I'm of the opinion that if I'm not safe of the bank, I shouldn't be on it. A time will come when I wont be able to carry kit the distances required to get to a peg, and even then, not be able to get into it. I'll adjust my fishing accordingly rather than try and get the naturally occurring bank to be changed.
Posted on October 2, 2017 at 11:46 AM
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Re: River banks safety just asking please
my opinion is that if you don't want to walk natural river banks then go fish a canal, i mean what next, take all the curves out of the river, they did this to the river lea years ago and last time i went there was not one person fishing it and looked like no fish either, i don't go fishing because it's easy, i go because i like a challenge
Posted on October 4, 2017 at 10:02 PM
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