In article , fredcromer
URL:mailto:fred@carpcaughtandnospamplease wrote:
Has anyone ingeniously found a way of keeping sodding ducks from attacking
bread laden hooks, whilst SURFACE FISHING, cos I told off some young lads
for catapulting stones at them, and lo and behold, a week later I felt like
doing the same thing when 2 ducks just wouldn't leave my bread + biscuits
alone...I was fishing 15 yards out, and sometimes they scare with a landing
net waved about, but sod that for armache, so has anybody got any tricks up
their sleeve.? Cheers....FRED C

You can hiss at them like an angry swan - if you don't mind funny looks from
anyone else on the bank. You can try green dyed bread.

There are several waters hereabouts that have become virtually unfishable by
any method due to the quantities of ducks. These days the rather than
feeding a few stalr crusts from the kitchen the kids are given a 15p
supermarket loaf -each- and the massive quantities of food have lead to huge
populations of ducks. On rainy days no-one comes to feed them so all the
weed is stripped out and the banks are bare too :-(

I think it should be called bread pollution.

Apart from zillions of ducks the result is a massive increase in the rat
population. An overload of (duck) sewage. And (silver lining) fish ready to
take bread at any hour.

Cheerio,

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