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?🤔

It wasn't even that dense... but clearly enough to put the sky rats off.

In reply to Post #1
Smoke grenades for summer it is then 😂

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The thought did cross my mind 😀

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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Ah, so they're scared of spombs..... wonder what else the little gits are scared of 🤔...not much from my experience!

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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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Like the idea of the 12 bore👍
Could keep it on a rack attached to the barrow....like American cops do in their patrol cars🤔

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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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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 😎

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😂😂

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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 12bore😎

If I did decide otherwise I'd have to call him Barny obvs😀

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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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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Most fisheries don’t allow firearms. Where can I buy an owl?

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😂