What scares you when night fishing?

[twochay]

HOPPY4:

Guys, for me it would be Snakes back home! Here in europe, I have not found it to be a problem. The rats are a problem if you are on the ground sleeping! Bedchair and placing your bait in containers and also keep your area clean will help. On the chance that someone or thing comes up on me while I am out, it is a chance they take! Warsp and bees are normal hazords of the summer and a wave off will do on most occaisions, but a number have died as well. Mosquitos, gnats and flies meet the same response.  

 

Actually I have to say my bivvy and swim is alaways the cleanist and tidy swim on the lake! My bait is always put in buckets and if i spill any i pick every bit up!

 

HOPPY4

[BoozleBear]

sluk:

Nothing bothers me too much at night but during the day WASPS. I hate the bastards, usually run off screaming like a little girl. Nothing else bothers me really, spiders, snakes, crawlies - just things that fly and buzz (apart from flies of course!)

Like you I don't like wasps. 2 years ago I was sea fishing in the summer, standing up to my waist in the sea playing a Bass (the fish, not the 4 stringed instrument!) and a wasp started flying at my face, I tried to wave it away and it got more irate. I went to smack it and the movement meant a sudden tug on my rod and the Bass was gone.

 

And if that wasn't enough the wasp stung me on the back too. :mad:

[kev7dags]

I with you lads on wasps (or anything that can fly, buzz and sting) My wife takes the mickey out of me all the time when we are out. I'm a nightmare at picnics and I think I have got my son going on the same fear now. Worst case whilst fishing was when I lived overseas. I was fishing a dam and was "attacked" by a load of hornets I ended up jumpimg into the dam to escape. Very embarrassing at the time!

[Dick Dastardly]

Worm it is right what you say about the Military.At Aldergate(?) the stretch along from the bottom of Lymn Hill anyway! You do think they are going to stick thier heads out of the far bank cover! Dont frighten me though.......what does frighten me are snakes and alligators,a common problem in the US when after AG! Luke had an alligator take a live bait once and thought it was great fun! A strange boy.......

[A Worm OOE]

Budgie

I spoke to a guy a few months ago who was fishing the canal. When he first moved down from the North West and wanted to go night fishing, Some local with a sense of humor sugested Aldersgate. He only found out about the Zoo when he rung the Police after abandoning his tackle and retreating to his Car.

[awaaar]

yep...rats do for me too....

 

and the mobile phone, 'kin thing always makes me jump!

[Vagabond]

Where I caught the roach/rudd hybrid recently discussed on this forum there are extensive woods around the reservoir.

 

A few years ago some wild boar escaped from a farm a few miles away and have colonised a few large woods locally.

 

One or two anglers have seen them in daylight.

 

After dark, I am told there are sometimes sounds of something crashing about in the wood.

 

Can't hear that myself (fairly deaf, and getting deafer with age).

 

However, my sense of smell is as good as ever, and having spent a fair bit of time in tropical rain forests, I know what wild pigs smell like. (The peccaries of South and Central America smell even more pungent that the African hogs and can be detected fairly easily)

 

I HAVE smelt that odour when fishing that reservoir, and make sure I have a spare metal bank stick handy when I fish there alone. A pack of wild boar looking for a free supper is something that sharpens your sense of awarensss considerably.

 

Have also fished crocodile-infested rivers, but not after dark!

[Alan Stubbs]

Given the catch rates I have had over the last year, perhaps I should have added 'bite alarms'!

[twochay]

In my RAF days I was detatched to the gulf (Just after the first war). This one particular eveining i went to empty my bin, as i grabbed the liner i heard a sssssssssss and immediatley dropped the bag (as ya would!) There lay in the bottom a snake! I called the bloke on base in charge of rogue animals (A Sri-Lanken TCN) he came out to us and told me that it was a deadly venomous species! He got rid for us anyway, close though! I was also stung by a scorpion whilst out there, bloody hurt so bad, like someone wacking my thumb with a sledge hammer! I killed it as briefed and took it to the yankie MO who prompttly told me it was harmless and for me to stop being a woosy ........... hello!

[ben88]

well definately wasps, every one rips it out off me because of that.

 

but what stresses me not scares me is when there me and two mates night fishing in bridgenorthpark on the slipway with a tentset up on the grass above us and theres about 30chavs all drinking away within earshot talking about us.