The Draw bag, your thoughts? - Page 2 - Talk Angling fishing chat and tackle advice

hendo · 26th September 2006, 09:26 PM

i like to give it a shake (the bag that is)
i allways go for middle of the pack

MarkC · 26th September 2006, 09:26 PM

It's obvious! the corner pegs are tucked away in the corner of the bag and the end pegs are drawn 1st & last

robbosoul · 26th September 2006, 09:40 PM

painy - i gave up open match fishing once because of bent draw bags and i fished at national champs level. By definition if u fish for money u must accept all the implications. If u are in the clique then u are ok but if not u are pools fodder. Its still happening if u look carefully at the results and listen to genuine lads who fish these matches. Proof is always the problem or getting threatened with a ban from the fishery for stating the obvious.Try club fishing its safer.

weldec · 26th September 2006, 10:14 PM

I Like to get in early had a few good uns but had my share of duff ones. We have one guy who is the luckiest drawer of them all cant wait for his luck to change. At our recent week At Boldings we booked several lakes over the week, so we had our own pegs and two of the guys went down to the lake of the day and placed the peg numbers out and leaving the bad pegs out. We back at base camp namely the black horse pub the procceded to draw so no one had any idea what peg they had drawn and of course we drew two pegs out for the pegging guys, it work a treat.

Oneabung · 27th September 2006, 06:46 AM

Your right about having to be in the clique on certain venues. There are two venues I could name down south were we have seen this regularly... you take it or leave it - its always a good idea to ask the organiser if you (not him) can give the bag a shake!

I have experienced the "no pegs left in the bag syndrome" only for a couple of extra pegs to be put in at the last minute! And also the draw from under the bag rather than in it!.... All I can say is these poeple know they are cheats and theives and if they arent good enough to take their chances off any peg then they must be crap! I can honestly say in all my years I have never cheated in a fishing match and couldnt imagine doing so - some people however I cant understand how they can live with themselves ... I suppose there are cheats in every sport but do you guys think there is a level of it in our sport?

growler · 27th September 2006, 07:42 PM

i usually try and rub shoulders with goldenarm and wanger as they usually draw the fliers, out of 65 matches goldenarm as only drew bad say four five times.

weldec · 27th September 2006, 09:02 PM

Hi Simon, Yes I have experienced the same thing myself with bag tempering. What we need is a portable mini lotto machine with the allocated number of balls in what you think.

Larry Teepot · 27th September 2006, 09:41 PM

i accept that cheating must happen...but sometimes good anglers are accused of being cheats because they fish better than the rest ...some anglers are lucky i have drew the same peg 3 times explain that, i won once had a 2nd and a blank... did i cheat to get that peg....hope you follow me.so i think permanent pegs should be binned just peg it out like the old days draw the pegs while the peggers are away....stops it dead ..