Uneasiness

[Shirleycodlin]

Reminds me of a thread from the darkside around 15 years ago.

I'm sure @Pigtin will remember it.
Especially the bag of dabs that came back to life

 

[Valleyboy]

I find a dog can usually inform you ahead of time if something moody is imminent

Yep no way would a squirrel ever get close enough to shank me

 

[Exile65]

I find a dog can usually inform you ahead of time if something moody is imminent

I got asked to cull some deer on some woodland in Sussex , when I went to meet the owner and look round at possible places for high seats etc we got to a small copse and as we started through my dog stopped , she didn’t want to follow us first or last , just stood their looking frightened , i really had to call her in and she was hunched up tail between her legs and acting weird .I said to the farmer I’ve never seen her like this , at which point he said one of his dogs was exactly the same ,it wouldn’t go through the wood since a chap hung himself there two years previously .He said his other couple of dogs take no notice .My dog was never at ease in that wood ..

 

[J Richards]

Did a night on lake years ago. Shit weather all night, woke up the following morning and some geezer had hung himself about 30meters behind my peg in a tree…. I thought it was a black bag before it got light.

 

[chesilpete]

Reminds me of a thread from the darkside around 15 years ago.

I'm sure @Pigtin will remember it.
Especially the bag of dabs that came back to life

The Night of the Immortal Dabs ???

 

[Mr Fish]

Did a night on lake years ago. Shit weather all night, woke up the following morning and some geezer had hung himself about 30meters behind my peg in a tree…. I thought it was a black bag before it got light.

Fucking hell! Remind me never to go carping!

The son of a friend had a similar experience years ago - he was walking to work on the local estuary footpath and ducked into one of the bird hides when it started to rain, to have a quick smoke and wait for it to ease off.
He said he was aware there was another bloke in there sheltering by his shoulder, but he didn’t speak and just assumed the chap didn’t want conversation.
Anyway, when he went to leave and looked back, he saw the guy was hanging from a beam

 

[Shirleycodlin]

The Night of the Immortal Dabs ???

I think the thread was called "Even been scared night fishing ' by a poster called chief Brody

 

[Trampster]

Never had anything like that happen when fishing, but as I've mentioned before, I'm sure my old cottage was haunted.

 

[Exile65]

Did a night on lake years ago. Shit weather all night, woke up the following morning and some geezer had hung himself about 30meters behind my peg in a tree…. I thought it was a black bag before it got light.

Our beaters came on the radio to say they had found a dead cyclist , ( he’d come off his mountain bike and broke his neck ) and should they stop the drive , my mate who was running the day told them to leave him the fuck alone and get on with the job ,he rang the police after the drive finished ..apparently he’d been there since late afternoon and they had been alerted he was missing , but was miles away from where he was supposed to have been ..Over the years the keepers found a few bodies on the estate , with seven thousand acres and loads of car parks there was no end of places people could top themselves , gassing themselves with the car exhaust was the no1 method ..

 

[DaveH]

Nice thread. I don't think I've ever had a bad experience at night as described, but I've had dogs who wouldn't go into rooms, and my grans dog used to bark at the wall, which dad used to say it was because the dog was daft, but in a 150 year-old house where anything could have happened - was it?
6th sense is a funny thing. How many of us have had a feeling that a fish had taken or was about to take?
Here's my party trick: I can usually, not always, tell what the time is, to the nearest 5 minutes or so - without a watch or clock. My dad could too. I'll bet some on here can too. Explain that.

 

[wingnut55]

I think the thread was called "Even been scared night fishing ' by a poster called chief Brody

Didn't he say something about "needing a bigger boat"..

Ian.

 

[J Richards]

Fucking hell! Remind me never to go carping!

The son of a friend had a similar experience years ago - he was walking to work on the local estuary footpath and ducked into one of the bird hides when it started to rain, to have a quick smoke and wait for it to ease off.
He said he was aware there was another bloke in there sheltering by his shoulder, but he didn’t speak and just assumed the chap didn’t want conversation.
Anyway, when he went to leave and looked back, he saw the guy was hanging from a beam

Our beaters came on the radio to say they had found a dead cyclist , ( he’d come off his mountain bike and broke his neck ) and should they stop the drive , my mate who was running the day told them to leave him the fuck alone and get on with the job ,he rang the police after the drive finished ..apparently he’d been there since late afternoon and they had been alerted he was missing , but was miles away from where he was supposed to have been ..Over the years the keepers found a few bodies on the estate , with seven thousand acres and loads of car parks there was no end of places people could top themselves , gassing themselves with the car exhaust was the no1 method ..

Wouldn’t believe me if i said it happened a second time (not hanging) but my old man was fishing ladye bay in clevedon, i popped down to see him, when i got there i noticed a police car, didnt think anything of it. Walked to first point where my old man should have been, looked over and there was dead fella on the rocks. Turns out the old bill had a welfare on the bloke 1/2 hour before i got there… that was prob 4-6 months after the first one. Thought i was jinxed luckily that aint happened for years.

 

[Just one last cast]

Like many of you do most of my fishing at night without incident though occasionally have to remind myself not to let odd noises etc get the better of you there is one place however that scares the shit out of me . Monmouth beach at Lyme Regis. Even though where I fish is only a couple of hundred yards past the beach huts & caravans I get a really bad feeling when I’m there, call it bad karma or bad vibes even when spinning at first light earlier this year the place is just eerie. Chuck in the fact I don’t catch much there despite it being my closest beach it makes it easy to go further afield!
Another thought what should you do if a random boat full of people lands near you, run like xxxx I guess?
Was fishing seaton earlier this year with a search helicopter go up & down the shore. Obviously never good to think someone is missing & partly thinking thats gonna mess the fishing up, it did seem too quiet once it & everyone else has buggered off.
Oh another odd one pops back into my mind , ontogeny my first trips to chesil trudging across the beach I am confronted by a lone chair. No angler no tackle just a chair odd.

 

[Pigtin]

Once felt uneasy while fishing in the fog off Herne bay with my young son. The water was totally still when, out of nowhere, appeared a flotilla of pink condoms, all with their necks wrung.
I upped anchor and moved on hurriedly for about quarter mile and started fishing again. They appeared again after a half hour. I must have moved exactly with the current, or they were persecuting me.

 

[nearly70ty]

I've got a very sensitive sixth sense, I'll guarantee as soon as I fancy a coffee, I pour it, and my fecking rod tip will go, I hate cold coffee

 

[flappy]

Once felt uneasy while fishing in the fog off Herne bay with my young son. The water was totally still when, out of nowhere, appeared a flotilla of pink condoms, all with their necks wrung.
I upped anchor and moved on hurriedly for about quarter mile and started fishing again. They appeared again after a half hour. I must have moved exactly with the current, or they were persecuting me.

Portuguese man of war perhaps..

 

[Wolf]

Had an interesting session the other night. Fish at night a lot and was just sat watching my rod tips when I was just overwhelmed by a sense of uneasiness. Didn’t see or hear anything, just felt something was off. Packed up and left quickly. Only happened to me once before years ago, not sure whether anyone else has had this experience before? Or any other strange experiences whilst out and about fishing. Tight lines,

I've had the same sort out thing happening to me many times, when fishing the back beaches of the isle of wight,mainly between blackggang & Compton beaches,also on the beach at saint Lawrence,I only fish at night on these beaches.

 

[Shirleycodlin]

Never spooked, but I'm convinced a large cat was sat behind my swim one evening on the river Medway.

Id got up to walk back to the car and get a headlamp, it was just shy of being dark.
A large shape sprang up Infront of me and bounded down the path towards the car.
Not really sure what it was.
When I got to the car, I could hear something in the undergrowth/bushes next to me, I turned towards it. It growled. I charged towards the noise whereupon it crashed towards a 6ft chain link fence , scrambled it and shot off along a railway track .

Brave or stupid, Id gambled by charging it, it wouldn't be back in a hurry!

It probably was a deer, but I've never heard a dear growl like that.

Last year I was working at port lympne zoo near one of the big cat enclosures.
I heard that growl!!

 

[flappy]

Never spooked, but I'm convinced a large cat was sat behind my swim one evening on the river Medway.

Id got up to walk back to the car and get a headlamp, it was just shy of being dark.
A large shape sprang up Infront of me and bounded down the path towards the car.
Not really sure what it was.
When I got to the car, I could hear something in the undergrowth/bushes next to me, I turned towards it. It growled. I charged towards the noise whereupon it crashed towards a 6ft chain link fence , scrambled it and shot off along a railway track .

Brave or stupid, Id gambled by charging it, it wouldn't be back in a hurry!

It probably was a deer, but I've never heard a dear growl like that.

Last year I was working at port lympne zoo near one of the big cat enclosures.
I heard that growl!!

Are you sure it wasn’t mr fish out on the pull..?

 

[RemoteWanderer]

I've had the same sort out thing happening to me many times, when fishing the back beaches of the isle of wight,mainly between blackggang & Compton beaches,also on the beach at saint Lawrence,I only fish at night on these beaches.

Did you ever see anything mate, grew up by the Solent and heard a lot of anglers talk about weird experiences along that stretch of IOW, do you hear other local anglers that have similar stories. Shingle walkers I think they're called`?