Mice in my fishing tackle AAAaarggghh

[Guest Chris Perch]

Ive just been out to my garage to sort out my tackle for my next trip in a few weeks and I was greeted by a big hole in my tackle bag with loads of gear including one of my reel spools having been chewed up by mice (my own fault as I left a bag of boilies in it)

Then the little blighter jumped out of the bag and ran up my landing net pole and onto my rod rack then dissapeared behind my cuppboards no doubt to chew on some thing else.

My tackle bag stunk of mice droppings and urine (Good job ive got two spare ones) as its now fit for the bin.

So after my initial string of bad language I went out and got some poisen to put down so I hope that will sort em!

A bit of advise never leave unused bait in with your tackle even in boxes as mice will chew right through them.

P S - are mice any good for pike bait????????????

Edited March 25, 2010 by Chris Perch

[Tigger]

Better with traps, with poison they'll die in a place you can't get to them and stink the place out. Plus if you catch one by it's foot you can torture it to death

Edited March 25, 2010 by Tigger

[arbocop]

P S - are mice any good for pike bait????????????

 

 

Try the Isaak Walton Frog Technique. (that sounds similar to a Volkswagen Advert!) See thread on live baiting.

Edited March 25, 2010 by arbocop

[Dales]

P S - are mice any good for pike bait????????????

 

 

I would have thought so, Pike do go for mice style lures. I have to admit I have bought a number of Pike flies mice imatations, I have never used them but they looked so good I just had to buy them.

[arbocop]

I would have thought so, Pike do go for mice style lures. I have to admit I have bought a number of Pike flies mice imatations, I have never used them but they looked so good I just had to buy them.

 

 

I had a deer hair mouse for a while. I never used it either.

[Sportsman]

Ive just been out to my garage to sort out my tackle for my next trip in a few weeks and I was greeted by a big hole in my tackle bag with loads of gear including one of my reel spools having been chewed up by mice (my own fault as I left a bag of boilies in it)

Then the little blighter jumped out of the bag and ran up my landing net pole and onto my rod rack then dissapeared behind my cuppboards no doubt to chew on some thing else.

My tackle bag stunk of mice droppings and urine (Good job ive got two spare ones) as its now fit for the bin.

So after my initial string of bad language I went out and got some poisen to put down so I hope that will sort em!

A bit of advise never leave unused bait in with your tackle even in boxes as mice will chew right through them.

P S - are mice any good for pike bait????????????

 

 

You're not alone.

I had a almost brand new Daiwa ruck sack in the shed. Over the winter mice got in and made a nest in the top. The smell of urine was enough to gag a maggot so it had to be chucked. Then when I checked my neoprene chesties the little bar***s had eaten a hole 3" across right at the hip.

I'm going to get some poison but I don't want one that kills, I want one that will have them writhing in agony for a few weeks

[Slug Salter]

When we moved into this house in the late summer I was ill so had people to help us, as a result tons of stuff got lost in the garage. I've been ill since so didn't get a chance to go looking for my fishing tackle until a couple of weeks ago. Turns out we've got Rats in there. They completely destroyed my large hold-all that was full of bags of boilies and ground bait. They also managed to kill an alarm, 2 landing nets and my unhooking mat.

We've now put poison down. The most common poisons, anticoagulants, do kill slowly and painfully, they cause their blood not to clot and they eventually bleed to death. If I remember correctly, it takes longer on mice than it does rats, oddly. I saw a mouse trap in a shop the other day that electrocutes them in a little chamber, didn't see one big enough for rats though.

[Kappa]

Then the little blighter jumped out of the bag and ran up my landing net pole and onto my rod rack then dissapeared behind my cuppboards no doubt to chew on some thing else.

My tackle bag stunk of mice droppings and urine (Good job ive got two spare ones) as its now fit for the bin.

 

Snap! A couple of months ago several mice jumped out of my bag! That wasn't the worst of it though! One little bugger stayed in there and then got out in the car and lived in there for a few weeks!

 

Luckily all that they had done is eaten a net and my cheap weigh sling! All my fault though, I left pellets in the bag! How stupid am I? The smell is nasty though!

 

Rich

[Vagabond]

I saw a mouse trap in a shop the other day that electrocutes them in a little chamber

 

When I did my National Service in the RAF, mice in billets were a common problem.

 

I initiated a "mouse sweepstake" whereby we each invented a different mousetrap, each paid an entry fee of half-a-crown, and the first one to catch a mouse scooped the pool. Each invented mousetrap had copyright - so everyone had to think for themselves. Much ingenuity resulted.

 

My preferred method was a chunk of cheese threaded on a bit of wire. To reach the cheese the mouse had to stand on a small metal tray. "Cheese wire" connected to red terminal, tray to black terminal. A small block of wood kept the two from making accidental contact.

 

Won several pools with that one.

[tincatinca]

Just bought a 3500 Baitrunner plus off e-bay which has been savaged by mice. Like new apart from the nibblings on the handle which I am in the process of repairing. Cant say the same about the keep net which I got out of the shed last week, it virtually fell apart