 Absolute Revelation!!
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In reply to Post #30
Quote: I thought one was soon going to Kamikaze the drone
Sounds like they are territorial then, I guess, or at least aggressive toward intruders to their "gang"
I know when they are fighting over a bag of chips at the seaside they can be properly nasty๐
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In reply to Post #29
Quote: when tied to my boat they wouldnโt dive on that
Interesting......did you just tie a length to the boat and have it trailing behind it? How long a length and did it need to be a hi viz colour?
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In reply to Post #14
@RKB: I'm all yours, when do you need me?
With regard to drones, they're not scared of them. I was trying to do some footage of an estate lake I fish and it only took 30 seconds before they were brazen enough to start getting close. They then got real close over the next 10 seconds and I thought one was soon going to Kamikaze the drone and it'd drop in the drink, so I hurriedly flew it back to me and never got it out again.
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In reply to Post #21
I found it was the braid as when tied to my boat they wouldnโt dive on that either but without the braid they would
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A few weeks ago there was a work party on the club lake, they were strimming the far bank.
The seagulls were completely thrown by the noise, probably the first time I've been able to use a catapult without giving the flying rats a free meal.
Week after that the village pub had a live band on, the music echoed across the fields and again without a definite sound to home in there would only be one or two half-heartedly circling instead of twenty.
Didn't really help that much because half a dozen mallards dived on my baits all day. Although it was fun watching the gulls trying to mug the ducks as they surfaced.
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In reply to Post #25
Yeah, I mean... even seagulls have a bed time.
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In reply to Post #22
If you do a bit of practice just before dusk, you can get your arm in, so to speak, then bait up just into dark, the gulls tend to piss off to their roosts as it gets dark.
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In reply to Post #23
Sounds like a plan.๐
...........so gulls don't have fantastic vision....
I'm just waiting for this to happen..
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In reply to Post #22
There is a natural sweet spot where itโs light enough for you and the gulls to see the splashes, but not light enough for them to take advantage of it! Unfortunately it only lasts about 15-20 mins until you can no longer see the splashes yourself, but by then you should be in a good enough rhythm to be near enough by the sound of the splashes.
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In reply to Post #21
I'm thinking of doing a little experiment and try the throwing stick just on dark...when I can just see the splashes of the baits going in but not the baits in flight...try and simulate the misty conditions.
Or I could just put it out during darkness...not so accurate but at least I have some free offerings in the area and a good wide spread can often work in your favour.
One of my club lakes has no gulls at all.....it is only lightly carp fished and has remained off the gulls radar, so far...it makes such a difference, not having to worry about those little t*ssers!
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In reply to Post #19
It's the spomb/spod they won't dive on. I use dark green j braid and they won't drop on a spomb.
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When using a throwing stick cast a spod out with bright yellow braid and the gulls don't take your bait
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In reply to Post #5
Itโs the line they are scared of
Use floating yellow braid on your spomb and theyโll never dive near it
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In reply to Post #16
We could be on to something here...
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In reply to Post #14
Owls (like a lot of birds) are high maintenance, get a drone, dress it up and circle your spot while spodding ๐
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In reply to Post #11
Most fisheries donโt allow firearms. Where can I buy an owl?
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In reply to Post #12
If the peregrine had been hungry it would have seen it off. Like most animals it only kills to eat.
Harris hawks are used by falconers to scare birds from airfields and other places where birds are a problem.
Oh seagulls will attack humans if they think there young are at risk. As a mate in yarmouth found out on a ladder trying to clear his guttering one summer.
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Yesterday I was watching a peregrine falcon soaring, I thought it was hunting, then I realised it was being chased away by a gull, it didn't attack the gull, just tried to avoid it. They were too hjgh up for me to identify the species of gull, but it was not as big as the falcon.
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In reply to Post #8
The logistics of taking a pet Barn Owl fishing with you every time you go make it an unworkable solution.......I'm sticking with the 12bore๐
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In reply to Post #8
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In reply to Post #6
Quote: Oh and birds of prey (got a funny storey on this when I have a little time I'll put it on here)
Is it the Dave Lane false hawk thing ๐
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In reply to Post #6
Meeting was not as long as I thought.
So a number of yrs ago I lived in GT yarmouth and did some work for a bird of prey sanctuary. Walk round town with a bird on one arm and a pot in the other collecting.
So on regent's rd as pedestrian and the busiest road. The chip eagles (gulls) became clever. If you was walking and eating chips or burgers they would swoop in over your shoulder so you dropped the food. They would then swoop back settle and eat whatever you had dropped.
So this one afternoon I'm starving and got a burger. Barn owl on my left arm burger in my right hand walking up the road.
Then all of a sudden the chip eagle swoops in over my shoulder. It's now face to face with the owl. It poos its self and an almighty screech and it hits the deck. Yes it did poo as it was down my jeans
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In reply to Post #6
Like the idea of the 12 bore๐
Could keep it on a rack attached to the barrow....like American cops do in their patrol cars๐ค
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In reply to Post #5
A 12 bore.
Oh and birds of prey (got a funny storey on this when I have a little time I'll put it on here)
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In reply to Post #4
Ah, so they're scared of spombs..... wonder what else the little gits are scared of ๐ค...not much from my experience!
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I used to fish catch 22 in Norfolk.
Even spombing the gulls would be straight on it. Then one day a mate walked up to borrow something as the spomb hit. I left it in place turned to him and told him where it was. Turned back n gulls still hovering.
Told him to watch my next cast. Spomb hits the spot gulls move in but as I left it on the spot for ten seconds the bait had gone n the gulls moved off. Next cast wound straight in n the gulls dived in.
A few weeks later as linear st Johns spombing out as I now did n no gull attacks. The guy in the next peg came over and asked why the gulls didn't dive in when I was spombing. So next cast I wound straight back in n gulls attacked. The next one I left in position and no gull attacks.
I guess he now spombs the same now.
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In reply to Post #2
The thought did cross my mind ๐
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In reply to Post #1
Smoke grenades for summer it is then ๐
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Turned up at first light and the lake is shrouded in swirly mist.. want to put a bit of bait out so grab the throwing stick which is like ringing the dinner gong for the seagulls..... and they all appear on cue but, I guess because of the mist, they attempt a couple of baits but then just give up and return to the trees in a massive sulk. Is this the key to actually getting some free offerings in? Just bait up in the mist?๐ค
It wasn't even that dense... but clearly enough to put the sky rats off.
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