entice them into the margins and give them a bit of grub...most of the
time they'll hang around all day waiting for more.....every time they
lose interest and start swimming off you give 'em a bit more and
hopefully they stay away from where you're fishing.....make sure the
rest of the birdlife don't spy you doing this though or you'll have the
lot on your case

fredcromer 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