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Out fishing yesterday, five or six miles off the coast and catching bream and mackerel and the normal general stuff for the table,, and we were persecuted by gannets....incredible spectacular dives into the sea all round the boat, but grabbing the fish on the line as we pulled it in, maybe five or six metres below the surface, and sometimes as we had the fish out of the water but not swung on to the deck yet.... I must have lost twenty fish and some tackle, and also they often got tangled up in the line... so hauled alongside, squawking, flapping, biting, pecking, it was a real problem and a pain in the bum.
the only solution was to haul up and motor off a couple of miles, and start again, but they'd soon cotton on and arrive.... Sometimes they'd come out of nowhere like Stukas, and other times they'd sit on the surface, with their heads underwater watching for you to reel in...
We tried shouting waving thrashing the surface right by them but unless you actually clouted one they wouldn't budge.
Any ideas to solve this... it's never happened before and all things were pretty much the same as on our regular twice weekly trips....
I thought of tying one to the boat.... we used to keep crows off the corn field by shooting them, but if you winged one and staked it to the ground on a length of rope it flapped about in distress, not surprisingly, and the others kept away..... these gannets are big b' stards though...
the only solution was to haul up and motor off a couple of miles, and start again, but they'd soon cotton on and arrive.... Sometimes they'd come out of nowhere like Stukas, and other times they'd sit on the surface, with their heads underwater watching for you to reel in...
We tried shouting waving thrashing the surface right by them but unless you actually clouted one they wouldn't budge.
Any ideas to solve this... it's never happened before and all things were pretty much the same as on our regular twice weekly trips....
I thought of tying one to the boat.... we used to keep crows off the corn field by shooting them, but if you winged one and staked it to the ground on a length of rope it flapped about in distress, not surprisingly, and the others kept away..... these gannets are big b' stards though...
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