If you are on the beach and someone is fishing

[LastNightMyPJsSavedMyLife]

Please go around the back of them and don't allow your dog near their gear. If your dog gets a hook in it's mouth it's not the fisherman's fault it's yours.

Maybe it's people who should be kept off beaches

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-62203301

Are you suggesting if someone is fishing on the beach, I should walk between them and the sea and walk under their fishing line???

One of my dogs, when not in my care, did just that. Seems she found a piece of something dead on a beach, ate it and the hook was embedded in the side of her mouth. It was probably a discarded hook as person looking after her didn’t remember any people fishing. Very, very lucky she didn’t choke on it.
One vets bill later she was home with a very sore, stitched mouth :(
So I agree, keep dogs well away and fishing people please check you take everything home with you.

Fishing like dog walking should only be in designated areas of any beach.

Because if the the fishing person backasts nobody is safe from those hooks.

Read the Op. It's only a few posts back.

Sorry, I don't agree - if you are taking dangerous, sharp objects into public places, it is your responsibility to store them somewhere and use them in a way they can't harm others - not the responsibility of the general public.

Please, can you walk us all through how you got from the OP to your summation? I think it would prove enlightening for all involved.

No. They are clearly not.

Have you considered reading and then responding?

Backcasts? The thing with shore fishing is you read the shore for areas likely to have the fish feeding in depending on the falling/ rising tide and these change with the tides.

We have the right to fish as set out in the Common Fishery which has been in place since the 12th century and predates Parliament.

Apologies, I did misread what the OP had said about walking BEHIND the person fishing! Ignore me.🙄

Fishers should have a designated area outside the swimming area of a beach. I have been on many foreign beaches where swimmers and fishers were kept seperate for safety reasons. Not only can flinging hooks behind and then forward while casting catch a passerby( even one going behind), but the currents can take lines and hooks to entangle in swimmers. In addition, the bait used by fishers can attract sharks and sting rays to the swimming area of the beach. Fishers should NEVER be near a swimming area whether marked off and life guarded or traditionally used stretch of the beach.

@JC03745

What a great idea, walk through their line and then come and post on AIBU after they've not been impressed with your lack of common sense.

Where you at Whitby yesterday by any chance?

No. If you are fishing keep your tackle in its lidded box. Don't leave hooks or other fishing detritus behind, it poses a massive risk to wildlife, and don't give fisherpeople a bad name.
It's everyone's duty to keep wild spaces free from shit (both literal and metaphorical) regardless of fishing, walking, swimming,sandcastle building etc.

Have you seen the utter and complete shit fest that human beings make of beaches - and the planet as a whole. Do you know that a gazillion tons of human urine and excrement is pumped into our oceans every day, along with another gazillion tons of plastic and vile noxious substances. Do you know what happens to radioactive waste? How much do you know about the 2.2 billion tons of landfill each year that takes hundreds of years to (only partially) decompose but not before causing irreversible damage? But yeah, let's blame dogs and all other life forms because anyone with half a brain can see they're clearly the problem here.

@SugarandSpiceandAllThingsNaice

I'm talking about the UK only. If you fancy swimming on the stretches of coastline where I fish crack on and you are a braver person than me. If people are swimming no angler would set up in that spot as it would be pointless. I cannot speak for anglers abroad.

Can you fishers just remember that people are possibly walking behind you when you do the flippy rod up and back before you flip it forward into the water again thing though please? I'm fucking irrationally scared of getting caught with a fishing hook.

@ginasevern

We have 13.5 million dogs in the U.K. that is far far too many. The population should be restricted as dog waste carries tons of diseases and is so foul that our sewage plants can’t even treat it.

@averitablevampire

I don't leave anything behind... ever. Hooks are disposed of properly (at home, in a sharps box). They are not left lying around however everything, to a dog, smells fishy and inviting. I turned around to find a dog chewing away at my sealed rig holder. I certainly don't give anglers a bad name. Be responsible for your dogs is all I'm asking.

I actually know someone who this happened to. She was walking along the river and ended up with a fishing hook embedded in her leg.

Obviously we should all exercise common sense around people fishing.

I'm curious as to who is coming to Mumsnet to tell us off though.

You might not leave things behind, but that might not be the case for everyone fishing. Just like not everyone walking their dog will allow them to go sniffing round ‘sealed’ containers. Maybe just don’t generalise…..