trout on the feedbag before the rain

[acabtp]

Originally Posted by Skunk City

That's considered "mugging" now?

I personally feel the content of your video was more "Jersey" than a guy fishing the opposite shoreline of a state stocked Trout river. Nice fish though.

you do not see this as equivalent to the recreational kayakers cutting between you and the shoreline you are working (which we both have complained about many times)? same idea, some guy comes through and you have to wait for them to leave before you can continue fishing the way you want to fish.

Originally Posted by buzzbaiter

Black /Lamington does have a resident wild brown population. There aren't many because of summer thermal issues but they are there. What helps is the fast, rocky water which means good oxygen levels even in water that occasionally pushes 80F in summer.

good to know. there certainly are plenty of plunge pools aerating the water.

[jimmythegreek]

Originally Posted by acabtp

you do not see this as equivalent to the recreational kayakers cutting between you and the shoreline you are working (which we both have complained about many times)? same idea, some guy comes through and you have to wait for them to leave before you can continue fishing the way you want to fish.

u gotta remember that when ur working a river theres a pattern to where ur casting and where ur lure ends up, theres a current situation, its different than being on a lake where u can cast anywhere from shore or a boat. honestly I dont care if its mikey in that video or joe shmo, he was upstream working fast water on the other side and ur basically in the pool downstream, u guys are nowhere near "tangling" IMO. I get theres nobody out there and u feel its "your" spot for the time being, but making a video and calling it mugging is a little much regardless of who it is on the other end of the gopro.

Think of it this way......if he walked up to that spot and was like "hey bro ur "so and so" from NJF I recognize u" and u guys started BSing u woulda both kept fishing and had a nice little chat and went on ur ways saying nice to have met you and so on.