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Rocksteady
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   Old Thread  #133 8 Jul 2020 at 9.16pm  0  Login    Register
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capt_swearword
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   Old Thread  #132 8 Jul 2020 at 9.03pm  0  Login    Register
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Are you camo Clive in that fox video?
noj
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   Old Thread  #131 8 Jul 2020 at 8.04pm  0  Login    Register
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Yeah ok Andy McNab you crack on son
KnickerSniffer
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   Old Thread  #130 8 Jul 2020 at 10.31am  0  Login    Register
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Lol. No.

There are reasons why you'd have to go SAS stylee and not been seen as CaRpS can be a smart foe and stealth is the key on occasions [looks at gilly suit and smiles to oneself].
mal
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   Old Thread  #129 8 Jul 2020 at 10.26am  0  Login    Register
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It's usually the scruffy looking bloke with all the battered gear that’s catching them all .....


I do my best
scozza
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   Old Thread  #128 8 Jul 2020 at 5.56am  0  Login    Register
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Your right Noj. It’s not about pleasure or even catching carp, can’t be when you see how some perform. it’s about having all the gear, finely tuned, precise, polished, neatly aligned in his “swim” and looking like a bad arsed carper

It’s usually the scruffy looking bloke with all the battered gear that’s catching them all

Saying that though, carp fishing can be bought in a box nowadays, you can give a complete idiot a decent bag of bait and he will catch, even if he does not know why, and that’s the difference
Rocksteady
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   Old Thread  #127 7 Jul 2020 at 10.50pm  0  Login    Register
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Don't see the term " specimen angler " much these days, wonder why.
noj
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   Old Thread  #126 7 Jul 2020 at 8.53pm  0  Login    Register
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Amuses me that carp fishing doesn’t come under the pleasure angling banner.
What with all the spod/marker/boat/bag ‘work’, sitting about with wet wooly sleeves, general bell ends and need to carry on like an sas operative the last thing you’d describe it as is pleasurable
Jackpike
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   Old Thread  #125 7 Jul 2020 at 7.13pm  0  Login    Register
Its peg if you are match fishing and a swim if you are just general coarse angler I like to do spot of float fishing for tench so I am classed as a match man now even though the last match I fished was sea event over 30 years ago
new-carper
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new-carper
   Old Thread  #124 5 Jul 2020 at 6.41pm  0  Login    Register
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nor share a peg
KnickerSniffer
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   Old Thread  #123 5 Jul 2020 at 5.09pm  0  Login    Register
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Ah, that's double, triple top secret mate. Need to know basis, and you don't need to know...
scozza
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   Old Thread  #122 3 Jul 2020 at 2.15pm  0  Login    Register
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Wheres that then?

pm if preferred
Greekskii
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   Old Thread  #121 3 Jul 2020 at 2.12pm  0  Login    Register
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Problem being she don’t want to bang you
KnickerSniffer
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   Old Thread  #120 3 Jul 2020 at 1.19pm  0  Login    Register
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Got naked lesbian swimmers on my venue. Would bang one of them mind, the other one, not so much...

Goose
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   Old Thread  #119 3 Jul 2020 at 12.47pm  0  Login    Register
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When it's ajar, anyway just got back for brunch and some clown is having a swim with her dagg in my peg, am I OK to burn her clothes that are in my peg?
Mr-AntB
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   Old Thread  #118 3 Jul 2020 at 11.03am  0  Login    Register
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Several different reasons on here. Post 95 is the simplest answer without involving any dodgy Eastern European antics.

It seemed to go over everyones head so perhaps I need to add a smiley thingy.
Tinhead
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   Old Thread  #117 3 Jul 2020 at 9.48am  0  Login    Register
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Better get googling
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   Old Thread  #116 3 Jul 2020 at 9.37am  0  Login    Register
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Tinhead
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   Old Thread  #115 3 Jul 2020 at 9.37am  0  Login    Register
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It's all to do with photic and aphotic zones

When is a door not a door?
Chuffy
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   Old Thread  #114 3 Jul 2020 at 9.30am  0  Login    Register
...and when does a lake become a pond?

Halfcentury
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   Old Thread  #113 3 Jul 2020 at 9.29am  0  Login    Register
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Yep. Because lakeside and riverbank were already taken.
CarpHippy
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   Old Thread  #112 3 Jul 2020 at 9.23am  0  Login    Register
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Do you even know why they are called pegs.
braders1978
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   Old Thread  #111 3 Jul 2020 at 8.38am  0  Login    Register
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Even if I was gay,you would be safe I would still have standards
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   Old Thread  #110 3 Jul 2020 at 8.37am  0  Login    Register
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sirch454
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   Old Thread  #109 3 Jul 2020 at 8.31am  0  Login    Register
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Should that be "Rock up" to your swim, pitch, peg etc??
Tinhead
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   Old Thread  #108 3 Jul 2020 at 7.51am  0  Login    Register
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Oh yeah, I'm a bit fresher this morning, makes more sense
scozza
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   Old Thread  #107 3 Jul 2020 at 5.33am  0  Login    Register
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Watch out for him. He’s a bit of a weird one at times

Plus, I’ve heard he prefers blokes
braders1978
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   Old Thread  #106 3 Jul 2020 at 0.35am  0  Login    Register
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If he looks in the mirror he will see a fanny
Tinhead
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   Old Thread  #105 3 Jul 2020 at 0.03am  0  Login    Register
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I normally get your jokes but I don't get that one
Hutchyfan
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   Old Thread  #104 2 Jul 2020 at 11.45pm  0  Login    Register
Also remember you don’t turn up to a swim, peg you roll up to it.
braders1978
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   Old Thread  #103 2 Jul 2020 at 11.26pm  0  Login    Register
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Go look in the mirror
Tinhead
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   Old Thread  #102 2 Jul 2020 at 11.25pm  0  Login    Register
Can't believe this has reached 100 posts.
So the bloke wants a rant yet so many people want to discuss and take it seriously.
It's just someone having a rant
suffokandy
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   Old Thread  #101 2 Jul 2020 at 11.13pm  0  Login    Register
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You say 'used to get sneered at' ..... nice to know some things dont change huh?


peg/plot/pitch/swim/ number/name?.....at the end of the day it looks like you're the only one actually concerned with what you deem to be the correct terminolgy for whats basically a SPACE in which to erect your shelter...or are you still 80's style hardcore and insist on slumming it just because you can?
scozza
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   Old Thread  #100 2 Jul 2020 at 8.50pm  0  Login    Register
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We all like a bit of fanny
billy-bass
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   Old Thread  #99 2 Jul 2020 at 8.28pm  0  Login    Register
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It's where i set up and cast out a bait or two.........it may just be in between a load of stinging nettles. Who gives a....... ......
capt_swearword
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   Old Thread  #98 2 Jul 2020 at 7.56pm  0  Login    Register
And aunt fanny
scozza
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   Old Thread  #97 2 Jul 2020 at 7.45pm  0  Login    Register
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Job done

Halfcentury
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   Old Thread  #96 2 Jul 2020 at 7.37pm  0  Login    Register
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Swim to get wet, peg to dry your kit, spot to fish on and Robert's your father's brother.
Mr-AntB
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   Old Thread  #95 2 Jul 2020 at 2.22pm  0  Login    Register
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Doesn't it depend if the lake is "pegged" with wooden stakes or similar to identify the swims numerically?
SPINBOWLER
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   Old Thread  #94 2 Jul 2020 at 1.10pm  0  Login    Register
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It's not a swim or a peg, its just somewhere close to the car park
scozza
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   Old Thread  #93 2 Jul 2020 at 11.04am  0  Login    Register
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Interesting what you say about the 80's. Around me it was all predominately match, i used to do a bit, i also used to carp fish but that was done with one rod whilst fishing for anything that swims on the other. Then progressing to two rods, and then 3

Match fishing its pegs and death at the draw bag

Carp fishing seems to be more "swim" orientated

Personally, i dont give a ****

Its not a spot, thats for sure, thats what the carp feed on. If you were to fish from a spot you would be sat out in the lake piss wet through

Agree on the carp match thing, deffo not my cup of tea, i have fished a couple for the experience but as a whole pressure and carp fishing do not go hand in hand for me, i go to relax, i can put myself under enough pressure finding the fish and getting on them or moving, i can have a nap then

Thats the one for me. Fish for your self, nobody else
KnickerSniffer
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   Old Thread  #92 2 Jul 2020 at 7.04am  0  Login    Register
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I'd go for the beginning of the 90's, but hey, it's splitting hairs.

Carp fishing back in the 80's had something different about it and was in a way separate with its own language and ethos to general course fishing which obviously goes way back before then. I used to get sneered at by the match guys in school in the early 80's for my carp antics. Maybe it was something to do with being the only one of two people specifically fishing for carp at school excluding all else. We were different, we wore ex army kit, slept under low slung nu brollies...hunting down waters that had never been fished for before for large carp... trailblazing for others to follow in our footsteps in our own, insignificant way. We may not have been the best anglers or the first to do similar, not by a long chalk, but we were doing our own thing on our own terms and not following the heard.

And then... ...then came the noddy

I was honestly mortified when I heard about the early carp matches and competitions; which still rocks me to my core till this day. Times they certainly do change and nothing stands still eternally. Everything is in constant flux. Change is guaranteed, unending and inevitable. I suppose that a huge part of the reason that I find the whole match thing so alien is that I'm not that much of a competitive person when it comes to angling; I'm just trying to catch for me and not trying to impress anyone with what I catch in the slightest. I literally don't care.

I'd be foolish thinking my world view is the only world view, that aside, a swim is a swim and not a peg. Even Jesus said that...
scozza
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   Old Thread  #91 2 Jul 2020 at 6.16am  0  Login    Register
90 posts and 1773 views in just over 24 hours, it’s a flyer of a thread
NOJOAKES
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   Old Thread  #90 2 Jul 2020 at 5.53am  0  Login    Register
What a load of ******** this thread is
IcantCatchCarp
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   Old Thread  #89 2 Jul 2020 at 1.52am  0  Login    Register
Not taking the piss or out but I use a peg to hang my clothes on the line and as said a swim is what I do in water so **** of back to mum's nets you little bitch 😊
capt_swearword
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   Old Thread  #88 1 Jul 2020 at 10.25pm  0  Login    Register
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Does keep me entertained
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   Old Thread  #87 1 Jul 2020 at 10.23pm  0  Login    Register
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And they're brilliant to read
Boycie
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   Old Thread  #86 1 Jul 2020 at 10.07pm  0  Login    Register
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Oh he will, he's got form for it
capt_swearword
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   Old Thread  #85 1 Jul 2020 at 9.35pm  0  Login    Register
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He hasn't completely gone off into meltdown mode.


Yet.
Ikeman
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Ikeman
   Old Thread  #84 1 Jul 2020 at 9.29pm  0  Login    Register
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Can't see how you made it to 33 posts without being banned tbh
capt_swearword
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   Old Thread  #83 1 Jul 2020 at 9.28pm  0  Login    Register
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Why?
Halfcentury
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   Old Thread  #82 1 Jul 2020 at 9.22pm  0  Login    Register
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Don't think there is another branch of angling that can or will do a bigger disservice to carp angling and coarse angling in general than modern carp angling (since end of 80s).
noj
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   Old Thread  #81 1 Jul 2020 at 9.22pm  0  Login    Register
Forget swim, peg etc.
We need to address drags being called clutches, ‘spod work’ and disharmony between those fishing for small farmed stock fish and errr big farmed stock fish
KnickerSniffer
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   Old Thread  #80 1 Jul 2020 at 9.18pm  0  Login    Register
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Bunch of c**ts?
mal
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   Old Thread  #79 1 Jul 2020 at 8.20pm  0  Login    Register
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capt_swearword
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   Old Thread  #78 1 Jul 2020 at 8.11pm  0  Login    Register
So what's it called if it's a carp match.
smellyfisherman
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   Old Thread  #77 1 Jul 2020 at 8.03pm  0  Login    Register
who fishes lakes with pre defined swims these days... its all about poking your rods through the bushes
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   Old Thread  #76 1 Jul 2020 at 6.08pm  0  Login    Register
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Probably will be if he can draw a bad peg and make the most of the swim already.
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   Old Thread  #75 1 Jul 2020 at 6.03pm  0  Login    Register
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Obviously affects people differently
mal
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   Old Thread  #74 1 Jul 2020 at 5.58pm  0  Login    Register
furloughed much anyone?
KnickerSniffer
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   Old Thread  #73 1 Jul 2020 at 5.36pm  0  Login    Register
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No probs

Told them about some waters local to them that are well worth a shout. One of the guys I think is quite a top rod when it comes to match fishing and would more than likely be very successful when it comes to catching carp.
Budice
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   Old Thread  #72 1 Jul 2020 at 5.26pm  0  Login    Register
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Ahhh ok, thanks mate.
KnickerSniffer
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   Old Thread  #71 1 Jul 2020 at 5.19pm  0  Login    Register
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I really don't know what you're talking about. Cryptic much?
Boycie
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   Old Thread  #70 1 Jul 2020 at 5.13pm  0  Login    Register
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Have you got a mind for it to play on?
KnickerSniffer
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   Old Thread  #69 1 Jul 2020 at 5.08pm  0  Login    Register
In reply to Post #68
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Greekskii
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   Old Thread  #68 1 Jul 2020 at 4.51pm  0  Login    Register
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They are pegs though. A swim is something you do to travel a distance in water.
KnickerSniffer
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   Old Thread  #67 1 Jul 2020 at 4.39pm  0  Login    Register
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It's be playing on my mind for sometime now and brought to the forefront of my mind as there's a few match guys at the place I work getting into carp fishing with me having to correct the language... ..."not a peg mate, it's a swim," with them badgering me for knowledge of waters and guest tickets - not happening as there's a no guests rule were I fish, so tough luck noddance, shuffle off to your pool that's crammed full of pasties with their faces smashed in.

I've not got anything against match anglers per se, just that the mentality that they bring with them in certain circumstances has been a big disservice to carp angling generally. What they've brought to the table has changed things in many ways, some for the good and others, not so much.

I appreciate that their tactics are highly effective and that they as anglers can be highly efficient, which can be highly enlightening and pretty impressive to watch, but calling a swim a peg when there's clearly no number where I'm fishing just ain't the one chief.
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   Old Thread  #66 1 Jul 2020 at 4.37pm  0  Login    Register
It's a bit of fun for gods sake...if you've got nothing positive and all that

Moron...person who's bored and starts a thread where people have a laugh.

(insert your own) person who's bored and just has a moan for the sake of it.
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   Old Thread  #65 1 Jul 2020 at 4.18pm  0  Login    Register
There was a Troll who came on here about 8 or 9 years ago.

Started a thread about casting 180 yards with a cheap set up. Got a few bites straight away.

Then started up numerous threads causing mayhem. Within a week he had really brought the forum to a halt with 90% of posts being replies to his increasingly ***** threads.

He then overstepped the mark by taking the piss out of a young lad asking basic questions and calling him names and giving him a hard time in general. It turned ou the young lad had a particularly bad illness and just getting out there fishing was an act of bravery and defiance in the face of his illness. I remember it well because I challenged him and got full trolling mode off him.

Strange thing was that in between his obvious delight in causing mayhem he obviously knew his stuff. His references to Cassien etc were spot on so he was either well read on the subject or had first hand experience. Just a shame he had some character defect that he had to cause chaos to get noticed
SPINBOWLER
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   Old Thread  #64 1 Jul 2020 at 4.16pm  0  Login    Register
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Harsh but true.
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   Old Thread  #63 1 Jul 2020 at 3.11pm  0  Login    Register
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And you've started half of them....😂😂
Budice
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   Old Thread  #62 1 Jul 2020 at 2.39pm  0  Login    Register
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something like that
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   Old Thread  #61 1 Jul 2020 at 2.38pm  0  Login    Register
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Wouldn't that mean they'd have to change their hoodies to cribbies
Budice
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   Old Thread  #60 1 Jul 2020 at 2.33pm  0  Login    Register
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So, what you're saying is they'll be in their Crib and fishing their 'hood yeah?
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   Old Thread  #59 1 Jul 2020 at 2.24pm  0  Login    Register
And to throw a spanner in the works, as I uderstand it the

The peg is on land where the angler sets up

The swim is the area of water in front of/allocated to the that peg...swim kind of gives it away

Self confessed noddy, besides, these terms won't be enough for the younger generation, they'll have to relable them...I don't know...Crib or something!


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   Old Thread  #58 1 Jul 2020 at 2.21pm  0  Login    Register
Ive seen some moronic threads on here
but this gets **** of the year award but spose this is what you get when kids are off school and bored
you only have to see its user name to realise what a moron
Budice
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   Old Thread  #57 1 Jul 2020 at 1.34pm  0  Login    Register
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What brought this on though?
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   Old Thread  #56 1 Jul 2020 at 1.30pm  0  Login    Register
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Lovely times Bro.
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   Old Thread  #55 1 Jul 2020 at 1.22pm  0  Login    Register
In reply to Post #54

Hopefully not for a while yet
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   Old Thread  #54 1 Jul 2020 at 1.20pm  0  Login    Register
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You know you will be re-captured dont you?
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   Old Thread  #53 1 Jul 2020 at 1.15pm  0  Login    Register
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Jumpers for goal posts?
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   Old Thread  #52 1 Jul 2020 at 1.14pm  0  Login    Register
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why are you so angry at match anglers? is it because most of them have a bigger pb than you?
KnickerSniffer
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   Old Thread  #51 1 Jul 2020 at 1.12pm  0  Login    Register
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Orly?

What, like rent/buy a muddy ditch, ram it with ultra fast growing carp, call the place a *syndicate* sell rake loads of overpriced tickets - like 100 tickets for a 4 acre pool, encourage anglers to wang in as much bait as possible, wait till there's a 40lb'er and then double the price.and litter the gaff with --> pegs <--. Nice.

Just like being in a 100 man lineup for your chance to bangz that hot milf...zero achievement on the scheme of things...
dickweed
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   Old Thread  #50 1 Jul 2020 at 12.46pm  0  Login    Register
Some of the best carp anglers I know started off as noddies.

I really enjoyed my noddy days as a kid.

Stick floating on the river Trent, fishing matches on local reservoirs and canals.

Rai
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   Old Thread  #49 1 Jul 2020 at 12.39pm  0  Login    Register
I’m not sure about referring to match anglers as noddies

I think all carp anglers would benefit from an apprenticeship match angling and or fishing for all course species

Carp anglers can learn an awful lot from match anglers

Greekskii
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   Old Thread  #48 1 Jul 2020 at 12.35pm  0  Login    Register
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For simplification:

Pegs = places to fish

Swims = places to fish

KnickerSniffer = emotionally confused pasty basher that eats munga and manilla 3x a day.
Boycie
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   Old Thread  #47 1 Jul 2020 at 12.35pm  0  Login    Register
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You'd know all about simple
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   Old Thread  #46 1 Jul 2020 at 12.30pm  0  Login    Register
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For simplification:

Pegs = noddy

Swims = carp angler.
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   Old Thread  #45 1 Jul 2020 at 12.30pm  0  Login    Register
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Bro

I believe "mush" is the latest term?

P.s. I say bro so do one lol
KnickerSniffer
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   Old Thread  #44 1 Jul 2020 at 12.29pm  0  Login    Register
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Nah, you was correct and the bailiff was wrong. Rods out = in the water.
KnickerSniffer
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   Old Thread  #43 1 Jul 2020 at 12.28pm  0  Login    Register
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Everything there is bang on with the exception of "bangers". Sounds like Team Korda chit chat. Suppose times they a change eh?
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   Old Thread  #42 1 Jul 2020 at 12.24pm  0  Login    Register
I’m currently trying to rock up to my water. Bang my gear out and rinse it of scaley bangers.

How about that for correct modern terminology

Bro
Boycie
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   Old Thread  #41 1 Jul 2020 at 11.54am  0  Login    Register
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NEXT
Tom81
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   Old Thread  #40 1 Jul 2020 at 11.52am  0  Login    Register
just don't get confused between a swim feeder and a peg feeder!
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   Old Thread  #39 1 Jul 2020 at 11.47am  0  Login    Register
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Simples really, pegs are numbered, swims are named, nice and simples
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   Old Thread  #38 1 Jul 2020 at 11.40am  0  Login    Register
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I had a run in with a bailiff over the difference between rods out/rods in.

I say rods out = rigs in the lake, and rods in = rigs on the bank.

I was having a mooch round after reeling my rods in (rigs on the bank obvs) and he said "Are your rods out?".
When I said no he went ballistic thinking my rigs were still in the lake.
And he disagreed when I explained the difference of what I meant.
Greekskii
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   Old Thread  #37 1 Jul 2020 at 11.34am  0  Login    Register
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maybe because not everyone can be asked to think of names and it's easier to just use numbers??

I dont quite get why this is so is getting to you so emotionally and mentally. I think you need to look within yourself as to why your anger is directed at how fishing areas are named and what the real issue is. Some self reflection and healing is required I think.
Hitman
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   Old Thread  #36 1 Jul 2020 at 11.32am  0  Login    Register
Those crusty nickers you keep sniffing isn’t doing your brain any good

Try clean ones
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   Old Thread  #35 1 Jul 2020 at 11.31am  0  Login    Register
We could go old school and call it a pitch then your wrong calling it a swim lol
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   Old Thread  #34 1 Jul 2020 at 11.18am  0  Login    Register
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Not really coming to an end. Sounds like a water I was fishing last year run by ex nods, hence the numbered swims. Like why would you put a number next to a swim with beautiful weeping willows and call it No:10. Like really? Defies logic and reason.
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   Old Thread  #33 1 Jul 2020 at 10.56am  0  Login    Register
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I fish somewhere where the defined fishing locations ( ) are numbered. It's a carp fishery. So they are pegs by your definition below...on a carp fishery...the world must be coming to an end for you right now
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   Old Thread  #32 1 Jul 2020 at 10.46am  0  Login    Register
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Well I always say swim so I must be doing it right

Not a lot of point being here so I will see you all on another thread
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   Old Thread  #31 1 Jul 2020 at 10.31am  0  Login    Register
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Pretty presumptuous on your part isn't it?

I'm just pointing out people's incorrect usage of words, which to me needs correcting. Correct usage of terms is important.
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   Old Thread  #30 1 Jul 2020 at 10.26am  0  Login    Register
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Desperate to make a name for himself on here, unfortunately probably not the name everyone else is thinking of when they read one of his posts.
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   Old Thread  #29 1 Jul 2020 at 10.20am  0  Login    Register
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This is England, not eastern Europe.

A peg on a lake usually has a number on it denoting the available places to fish from. You wouldn't fish from the Brambles peg, you'd fish from the Brambles (((swim))).
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   Old Thread  #28 1 Jul 2020 at 10.08am  0  Login    Register
Oh ffs he's back again....
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   Old Thread  #27 1 Jul 2020 at 10.00am  0  Login    Register
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A "Peg" is a location and dates back to the 16th century in Eastern Europe where they would attach one end of a net to a "peg" when netting a water for food (usually carp). These were marked out with specific distances to ensure they weren't netting the same area of water. As said being used now to map out fishing matches.
"Swim" is a modern terminology usually referred to the body of water in front of the designated "peg"
I'm not sure calling people noddies and advocating 5 year bans is really the way forward considering your lack of understanding of the terminology.
Best

Jon
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   Old Thread  #26 1 Jul 2020 at 9.52am  0  Login    Register
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A plot is what Guy Fawkes was plotting
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   Old Thread  #25 1 Jul 2020 at 9.42am  0  Login    Register
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A plot is a house on a new build site.
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   Old Thread  #24 1 Jul 2020 at 9.41am  0  Login    Register
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Yards... Pftt. It's rod lengths. :Nod:
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   Old Thread  #23 1 Jul 2020 at 9.39am  0  Login    Register
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Thought it was a plot as in plotting up!!
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   Old Thread  #22 1 Jul 2020 at 9.33am  0  Login    Register
There are lots of terms for a piece of lake or river bank where you fish from.

There are various terms to describe the piece of water you are fishing in.

There is a specific term for people who start threads like this - ****
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   Old Thread  #21 1 Jul 2020 at 9.22am  0  Login    Register
I think people are taking their replies a bit too seriously.
Let me the man have his rant

Any way talking in wraps rather than in yards is a far worse crime.
Bloody noddy instant Faceache anglers
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   Old Thread  #20 1 Jul 2020 at 9.07am  0  Login    Register
I generally just try and pick a good spot.
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   Old Thread  #19 1 Jul 2020 at 9.03am  0  Login    Register
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A lot of carp anglers sit behind stationary rods with alarms for when there sleeping , reading , watching films , they play the waiting game ,
Matchmans fish for a variety of species with a variety of methods quite often during the worst time of day for feeding activity on lakes and rivers ,
Trotting a float down a river is an art form , I'm struggling to think of any method in carp fishing that I'd call an art form , maybe floater fishing (just )
Who are the noddies 🙄😂
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   Old Thread  #18 1 Jul 2020 at 8.58am  0  Login    Register
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it really does not matter what you call it we are all fisherman

No we're not, we're anglers
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   Old Thread  #17 1 Jul 2020 at 8.58am  0  Login    Register
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Yes. Yes it does.
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   Old Thread  #16 1 Jul 2020 at 8.55am  0  Login    Register
I can't believe I just wasted a minute of my life reading all this, it really does not matter what you call it we are all fisherman

and I can't believe I just wasted another 20 seconds typing this reply....must go and do something useful like pick my nose for any real treasures
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   Old Thread  #15 1 Jul 2020 at 8.18am  0  Login    Register
Does it really matter what’s it called.
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   Old Thread  #14 1 Jul 2020 at 8.03am  0  Login    Register
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Inbox me yeah...😘
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   Old Thread  #13 1 Jul 2020 at 7.43am  0  Login    Register
In truth it's really simple - If numbered for match draws it’s called a “Peg” , if called a specific name it’s called a “Swim”.



~ I'm stamping 10 Swim name plates in Stainless Steel this afternoon for a River Fishery.


~ A bit more trivia – the term “Peg” comes from when the early matches started the officials would mark out the fishing locations using numbered bits of paper fixed to anything in the vicinity using Cloths Pegs.
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   Old Thread  #12 1 Jul 2020 at 7.39am  0  Login    Register
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If you can be arsed looking it up... The area where you sit is your peg... And the water in front of it is regarded as your swim.
Irrespective of what your fishing for?
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   Old Thread  #11 1 Jul 2020 at 7.38am  0  Login    Register
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Sorry, no it can be either, or also include lot or spot.

My club waters cater for both match, general and carp anglers. If you go onto their lakes you have to fish from the peg, and no casting into adjacent swims or pegs.
There are 3 swims on the point, but only 1 peg faces into the bay.

Of course, if you were fishing with Ritchie Macdonald, then you fished your swim from your lot.
If you are on some waters you are casting into your swim from your spot, and in your swim you may be aiming at a particular spot on the feature.

So to recap, from your peg you will be casting into your swim. From your spot on the bank, you will be casting to a spot in the water, unless you are on a peninsula, in which case you will be fishing on point.
😖😉😆😅

Seriously, I think you fish from the peg, and the swim is the water in front of you.😉

And finally, does it really matter?

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   Old Thread  #10 1 Jul 2020 at 7.19am  0  Login    Register
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Pitch went out with the Brolly/bivvy 😁
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   Old Thread  #9 1 Jul 2020 at 7.07am  0  Login    Register
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Actually the original term was pitch. Sorry to ruin your day.
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   Old Thread  #8 1 Jul 2020 at 7.07am  0  Login    Register
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Rants like this carry a 10yr ban didn’t you know? Mandatory day in the stocks where people cast sloppy spod mix at you.
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   Old Thread  #7 1 Jul 2020 at 6.59am  0  Login    Register
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Tip top girlfriend... Tip top.
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   Old Thread  #6 1 Jul 2020 at 6.57am  0  Login    Register
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Obviously you're a noddy/confused on your terminology and with me being the helpful guy that I am, I'm here to clear up any confusion you may have.

Match anglers = peg

Carp anglers = swim

Oh, 30 years carp fishing and still doesn't know the difference between swim and peg? Kek.
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   Old Thread  #5 1 Jul 2020 at 6.29am  0  Login    Register
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Not sure what you've been sniffing recently.
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   Old Thread  #4 1 Jul 2020 at 6.25am  0  Login    Register
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I call where I fish a peg or a swim, only been carp fishing 30 odd years, so I must be still a noddy
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   Old Thread  #3 1 Jul 2020 at 6.09am  0  Login    Register
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Peg, swim, it’s where you fish from

To be fair, most of the noddies you mention are probably far superior anglers than most carp anglers, they are good on fish
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   Old Thread  #2 1 Jul 2020 at 6.08am  0  Login    Register
U OK Hun?
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   Old Thread  #1 1 Jul 2020 at 5.54am  0  Login    Register
As per thread title. It is not called a peg in carp angling, it's called a swim you effing noddies. Got it? A peg is what match anglers fish and a swim is what carp anglers fish. It's really not that hard to understand is it?

I guess the large influx of noddies who once sat behind a pole dangling a line for F1's and has got into carp angling could be confused, but this ain't noddy angling chief, this is carp angling, and within carp angling there are certain terms that differ like the use of the word 'peg' :shudder:

Calling a swim a peg should carry a mandatory 5 years inside and banning from carp angling for the rest of your natural and branding 'N' on the forehead.
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