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08-22-2006, 11:10 AM
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Night terrors
I have had some bats almost hit me in the face the past few times night fishing. Kinda freaked me out a little bit. Are they any danger for me? What else is there to worry about while nightfishing. Gets a little spooky out there sometimes heh.
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08-22-2006, 11:37 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Uh, in a spot....
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unless your covered in bugs for some reason no they are no danger, discomforting maybe but no danger.
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Why even try......... 
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08-22-2006, 11:39 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 5,945
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ghosts.. watch out for ghosts.. there is a coupla stretches on the backside, that have weirded me out before.. one, I found out, near where there was a shipwreck , and lotsa deaths.. that just makes it weirder..
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08-22-2006, 11:41 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: in a structure with a roof
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watch out for the boogey man !
bats wont hurt you or get tangled in your hair . they are just out feeding on insects . their radar will keep them from hitting you .
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08-22-2006, 11:41 AM
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Soggy Bottom Boy
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Billerica, Ma.
Posts: 7,260
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Just wear a hat I have heard stories about people getting them in there
hair, that doesn't sound like fun. any way they are after the bugs flying
around you.
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Surfcasting Full Throttle
Don't judge me Monkey 
Recreational Surfcaster 99.9% C&R
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08-22-2006, 11:45 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Southern NH
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Nada....  ...just your own sense of fear  |
Good health and family
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08-22-2006, 11:47 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 297
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haha yes! Especially when your fishing in the woods and nobody is around and a bat almost hits u in the face. Gets a little freaky. The boogie man came after me one time with some soap on a rope and he kept asking me to pick it up. Whats up with that?
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08-22-2006, 12:12 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: in a structure with a roof
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no no no that was the pokey man . the boogie man likes to dance over your corpse .
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08-22-2006, 12:23 PM
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Keep The Change
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Road to Serfdom
Posts: 3,275
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I am scared only of the two legged monsters that may be lurking out there, especially those wanting to help themselves to the items I worked hard to obtain.....
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“It’s not up to the courts to invent new minorities that get special protections,” Antonin Scalia
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08-22-2006, 12:27 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Block Island
Posts: 94
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Beware Da Bluffs
Walking along the south side of BI and seeing the chunks of bluff that came down at night while you were fishing under them can get you thinking. Also, some of the two legged creature walking around out here would scare you to death!  |
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08-22-2006, 12:29 PM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
Posts: 8,158
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Bats are only dangerous if they're rabid. If you get bitten or scratched by one, the safe play is to get the shots.
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
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08-22-2006, 12:34 PM
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What was that!?!
Join Date: May 2005
Location: East Kingston, NH
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clearly you've never seen jaws  |
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08-22-2006, 01:56 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: New Haven County, CT
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I caught a bat on the fly rod several years ago. Go to www.connecticutsurfcasters.com , click on the "articles" link, go to "bycatch". Got tangled in my leader.
I agree about those Block Island bluffs. Cuttyhunk has some nasty ones, too.
I had a seal on a dark, foggy night out near Chatham scare the hell out of me. Splashed about 10 feet from me as I was out to my chest in waders, I was back on dry sand in no-time flat. |
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08-22-2006, 01:57 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 297
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he kept bumping into me i guess he must have been a cop cuz there was something hard in his pants damn pokieman
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08-22-2006, 02:46 PM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
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Originally Posted by Adamfishes
I have had some bats almost hit me in the face the past few times night fishing. Kinda freaked me out a little bit. Are they any danger for me? What else is there to worry about while nightfishing. Gets a little spooky out there sometimes heh.
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Must have been scary. Who was swinging the bat at you? Aluminum or wood? Were you in someone's spot?  |
It's not the bait
At the end of your line
It's the fishing hole
Where all the fish is blind
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08-22-2006, 02:48 PM
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lobster = striper bait
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Popes Island Performing Arts Center
Posts: 5,871
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Albatross in the face offshore. (crew on deck, i got the rest of the watch off)
Flying fish in the back of the head offshore 3x now. (on watch by myself, i totally blew up, thankfully had my harness and tether on)
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Ski Quicks Hole
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08-23-2006, 07:36 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Posts: 38
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I had a bat zipping around my head last night. I'd forgotten the bug spray and he was having a great chow once the breeze dropped. At the time I thought, this must be what symbiosis feels like  . |
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08-23-2006, 11:02 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Cape Cod
Posts: 211
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A couple of years ago, east of Block, speed jigging bluefish, had a bat middle of the day that keep buzz us on the boat, til I hit it with the tip of the rod. Was a bit spooky the bat just keep coming back with in a foot or two of us til it was banged with the rod tip. Did not kill it, it just moved on after that.
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Tight Lines!!!!
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08-23-2006, 12:27 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: To close to water for my insanity
Posts: 884
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Bats are harmless, they like to come to the vibrations made by the line especially braid. Next time youre out take the lure of your rod and swing the rod back and forth over your head pretty fast till it makes that whislying sound and they'll dive at it. People are the ones you have to worry about
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offthehookfishing.com
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08-23-2006, 12:59 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Cape Cod
Posts: 210
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a bat met my windshield at 60mph on rt. 6 last week. 430am. WHACK! scared the bleep out of me!  |
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08-24-2006, 09:00 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 297
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The only thing I want to know why is there no fishing groupies/cheerleaders
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