Well Loch Ness has Nessie
Bala Lake has Tegid
and now Earswood lake Has (name to be advised) a monster.
Check the link, and wear steal toe caps if you capsize!!!

Don't worry guys - it's in the other lake.  All you have to be scared of at ELSC is the Commodore!

Can we have one at our lake please. Fishermen without fingers cant throw bait at the sails

I'm not sure I believe Jenny, I think it is in the sailing lake, a deliberate ploy to nobble none Earlswood boats, my centerboard, Dave & James mast's, we thought it was the weather but now the truth is out there, it was the Earlswood monster!

Like the idea of setting it on the fishermen though must get the comitee to get one for Redditch.

I do find it strange that fishermen have this hate/hate relationship with dinghy sailors.  As a long time trout fisherman fishing the Loughs of the West of Ireland it doesn't appear that fishing from a drifting boat traditional style puts the fish off at all and trout are one of the shyest of fish. If the drifting downwind style didn't produce a bag of fish the fishermen would have given up the method long ago.   On numerous occasions sailing at Forfar which also contains trout I have had fish rising within 10 yards of the bow of the boat - again showing a lack of fear and shyness.

I would absolutely agree with Gary, and add that when I was very young I used to fish for Perch. Roach (Coarse fishing.) on the Broads and it was true that every time a cruiser passed one got a bite. Subsequently sailing on the Thames one learned the intolerance coarse fishermen had for dinghy sailors indeed I can remember a well known Merlin Rocket sailor one Derek King “hooking” a fisherman and pulling his kit into the water.
The fisherman subsequently turned up at Minima whilst we all taking tea, wanting to know who had pulled his rod into the water. Derek stood up (He was not a small man in any dimension!) the fisherman left. However later sailing on reservoirs shared with Fly Fishermen and stocked with trout like Grafham Water and Farmoor near Oxford the reverse was true, camaraderie seemed to exist and on one occasion a couple of trout as a gift for the grandmother I was staying with. Maybe it’s so cold just sitting looking at a float or ledger line that un-gruntles them? Maybe its social? Maybe they just feel the need to throw something or be angry?

Over the Hampton open weekend we had several conversations with the fishermen on the Surrey bank.  Hywel seemed to feel the best bit of river for sailing was where they had their lines out.  Trouble is they now cast so far from the bank and with either tiny floats or none at all so you can't easily avoid them and you would have thought after the experience of the 1st race they might have decided that a bit of river another 40 yards up the bank not just above our start line might have been less of a problem, but once set up they were clearly there for the duration.

I'll never forget the day I first got my Cadet, and had abuse and stones thrown at me by a Frensham fisherman. He ruined the whole beautiful experience, and really upset a tender-hearted 15yr old me!

I've let the hatred build up for the last 18 years...

Maybe it's just the "Coarse Fishermen" and maybe it's not just the fish they stalk that are coarse?

In my youth, (god thats a long time ago) we used to have a fishing waden at our lake who also sailed, he explained that any GOOD fishing person would wait for you to pass and then cast into your wake, this is because the boat disturbs the water and the bottom of the lake (upto 15 feet) and the fish will come in and feed.
So if you doo get a bait flinging/abusibe moron then their not fisher persons just morons with a rod!!

Methinks Jenny is being too optimistic - the beasts can walk overland and the two lakes are very close together.  Need to keep on your toes while you still have them!

Have just realised that at Forfar we have our very own Turtle only in this case it is a dinghy about 12ft long and shaped like a baby's bath.  It has yellow sails and has the characteristics of a crab when sailing (one step forward 3 steps sideways).  We can't find any information on it at all but it would have been more aptly named "Tortoise".

Is that because you need lessons?

It isn't my boat nor would I have it in a gift!!

Lessons, tort - oise = taught us, geddit?

And day ticket fishermen are even more moronic than club ones! We've had more than just bait catapulted at us before now. Lead shot at sails and sailors - ouch! 
We also nicknamed it the OK Corral as they all drive white builders vans. 
"Rog the boat tart" was recently also known as Flo (fishing liaison officer) - a thankless task especially when our landlord's agents prefer fishermen to sailors as they appear to bring in more money.

Mindless sums them up just soccer supporters en masse, pussycats on their own though.

Seem to remember a resourceful crew parting nylon lines that were impeding progress with a lighted cigarette, when ghosting past the east pier at Newhaven. Needless to say this was not well received by the 'sportsmen' above, but at least separated the heavy bits. Seem to remember also that this was the bearded brother of a sucessful MR builder. mmm late 60's early 70's.

Now the name Smokers Satisfaction makes even more sense!

All this talk of the damage Bill Clinton did to the financial system reminds us of the alternative use for some smoking materials,