MAINE - Life in the Slow Lane
Hi Dave
I hate people who grow roots in a pool....But then a well cast
large double will generally encourage movement...If not the next cast
may produce a hole in their waders requiring them to go ashore
for repairs. Salmon fishing has a very strict etiquette and those not
abiding by it are usually instructed in no uncertain terms to conform
very quickly...
We are blessed here in New Brunswick with a fairly pristine
environment, but there are those like anywhere else that do their
utmost to ruin it. I am a firm believer in "carry it in-carry it out".
Stephen
here here, I carry a plastic bag in my vest just for this reason. I also hate pool hogs. I have been fishing with my son and had someome enter our pool and cast over my line. If my son wasn't with me I would have cracked this persons skull . I did say to my son we should move on because this man dosent have the common sense to know any better. either that he was blind. I thought about throwing rocks into the water but I would have been just as bad as he was in my sons eyes
Ahhhhhhhh Good discussion. There are some real arseholes out there that just have to have a chance at every fish or figure they own every pool!!! I'm of the same opinion as you Dave (the cracking skull theory) and its a good thing I'm getting calmer in my old age!!! Stephen I've seen the Double hook method work well on a nice pair of Simm's wader in the Miramichi and your right , when a leak develops they ain't long getting a move on out of the pool. A nice big 2/0 works well also you usually get flesh!!!
As for garbage.... the world is full of pigs and I can't understand how a couple of fellers can carry a 24 of beer into a spot but not carry the empties out??? Are they not alot lighter after you drink the contents??? Tim Horton's coffee cups are also another bad one around here.
Mike
Speaking of Ethics here is a thread on the FlyFishinginMaine web site you should all read.
Thread on FFiM web site
I have to side with "The Pirate" on all that he has to say in this thread, for I have fished the sucker spawn in the spring on this river. My buddies and I were the first to do so and since then it is a circus there in the spring. Please read the whole thing, it is very interesting and you will see many perspectives from different people throughout the thread. Let me know what you think.
Lee
Very intresting I am glad he stood his ground. I have come to witness this to. I went to one of the streams close to my home (Spring Creek ) and as I aproached the stream I noticed an angler with a bag load of fish. Knowing what he had caught was more then the legal limit I asked to see the fish. He was more then egar to show me. Two fish were over 14 inches and he had 7 fish. I looked at him and shook my head becaue not more then 20 feet away from him and I was the fishery sign stating no more then one fish over 14 inches to be taken daily and no more then five fish will be taken daily. I took his licence plate number and called the fish and game dept. The response I got really surprised me. Unless I took a picture of the fish he was holding they could do nothing about it. I told the officer I was talking to most bluntly . Then why in the hell do you have a poachers hot line. He aploigized but that was the law. I said the law sucks 
I hear you Dave, seems like if you try to do the right think you have to jump through hoops and bad guy gets away with it. I really think they should have approached him and told him the law and that if he was reported again he would be fined.
Just my two cents.
Lee
I agrre 100 percent. Maybe he would stop and think about it before he did it again.
Been on bacation the last week with the family up in the White Mountains, so I'm just catching up on posts.
Personally, if a fisherman has my favorite stretch of water, it's his until he leaves. Typically there's enough water where I can catch something until he leaves, no skin off my back.
The garbage thing really bothers me- I'm always packing out people's crap in my vest.
We camped up at White Lake state park and my youngest daughter and I went fly-fishing for whatever she could catch one morning and on our way back we picked up 7 Miller Lite beer cans- I swear they must have been from the same boat. 
it's sad with all the talk of conservation in the schools and on TV that you still find people doing this.
Dave
I agree with you DaveG. I think people in general most of them don't litter but there are the few who just don't give a crap. It is really sad when you find broken bottles in the water. I do my best to pick it out but sometimes its to hard to get it all.
Ok lets get your opinions, What is the distance you would stay from another flyfisherman fishing your favorite strech of water? What would you do if you came to your favorite pool and found trash all over the place? would you leave the trash or carry it out ?
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was
cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time.
On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words,
and some of the words are theirs.