B****rd ducks, what an annoyance,.owt doin'?

catch em with bread on a hook, and pull their f*****g heads off,

dont solve the problem, but makes me feel better...

good way of de-stressing


"fredcromer" fred@carpcaughtandnospamplease wrote in message
...
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

On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 21:48:34 +0100, NNNews.... wrote:

catch em with bread on a hook, and pull their f*****g heads off,

dont solve the problem, but makes me feel better...

good way of de-stressing
Don't forget the orange sauce.

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neil
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lol, some good feedback, haha,I think i'm gonna stick with the 'buttering em
up' approach..(not in the cooking sense), a few slices in the margins it'll
be
..all the best...FRED

On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 23:17:14 +0100, "fredcromer"
fred@carpcaughtandnospamplease wrote:

lol, some good feedback, haha,I think i'm gonna stick with the 'buttering em
up' approach..(not in the cooking sense), a few slices in the margins it'll
be
.all the best...FRED

Just try this once - line needs to be quite tight, let the ducks get
near (the fish follow them sometimes) then pull the bread away fairly
quickly about a 6-12 inches and the ducks will move away.

He only wants to get rid of them not catch, prepare, cook and eat the
buggers.
"Peter Cliff" wrote in message
...

I'm a great believer in the old saying that there should only be two to
a duck - and one of them should be the duck!

Whilst there's not a lot of meat on them (unlike the cow or sheep which
is a much different creature and which I find difficult to get a whole
one on the plate at the same time as my roast potatoes and a nice mixed
veg), they tend to swim best in a fairly thick Black Cherry sauce or
done Chinese style with Plum Sauce.

Having said that, I was fishing a nice quiet peg at the far end of The
Riddings at Grendon near Tamworth (http://www.fisheries.co.uk/riddings)
last week. Doing nicely off the bottom, a couple of guys trawled up and
plonked themselves next to me. No sooner had they tackled up than chunk
after chunk of bread splodged into the water a few yards out from my
swim.

Not to worry, I thought. I'm on the bottom and he's on the top (so as
to speak, if you understand what I mean).

Presuming the guy was wasting his time as I hadn't seen any movement on
the top all afternoon, I was soon to be proved completely wrong. Within
15 minutes the carp started slurping his crusts off the top and he was
soon into some nice 5lb-10lb mirrors and commons.

But whenever the ducks and geese appeared he simply 'bought them off'.

A few pieces of crust away from his swim kept them happy and after a
short while they simply moved on. Whenever they returned he did the
same again.

Ducks, it appears, are like fish. They have a fairly short retention
span and their neural pathways degenerate pretty quickly...

I personally don't like all this hissing, bawling, throwing groundbait,
stones, the mother-in-law and anything else which comes readily to hand
when ducks paddle into your swim. When they do cross your line very
rarely do they become snagged and I personally have become quite
attached to three at Packington Fishery
(http://www.fisheries.co.uk/packington) - two males and a female - who
this spring raised a brood quite successfully and are now quite happy to
come out of the water and wait by my side for pellets, pieces of
groundbait, maggots, casters, luncheon meat, bread and anything else I
may have to hand. You can become quite attached to them.

It's all about cultivating friendships, and once they see you a few
times and realise you are their best friend they pose few problems to
your floating baits.

Now, has anyone else a favourite recipe for duck....









In message , Fredcromer
writes
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



--
Peter Cliff
Fisheries.co.uk