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08-06-2006, 05:02 PM
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Registered LUser
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Mashpee, MA
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Canal Rats are REAL?!?!
I honestly thought it was a joke until I saw my first one last nite. Am now paranoid that I will fall, hit my head, and wake up to my eyeballs being gnawed on by a pack of giant, amphibious, nasty canal rats. Shudder, shudder.
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The worst day fishing is better than the best day working. ...Wait a minute, my work IS fishing. Sweet.
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08-06-2006, 05:14 PM
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Hydro Orientated Lures
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Brockton,Ma
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Originally Posted by Bass Babe
I honestly thought it was a joke until I saw my first one last nite. Am now paranoid that I will fall, hit my head, and wake up to my eyeballs being gnawed on by a pack of giant, amphibious, nasty canal rats. Shudder, shudder.
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Fell asleep on the rocks one night covering at rats nest, awoke to the screaming of rats beneath me .. ...the horror !!!!!!! |
Belcher Goonfoock (retired)
(dob 4-21-07)
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08-06-2006, 05:15 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Westport
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How about when you drop something in the rocks? How quick do you reach down in there?  |
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08-06-2006, 05:27 PM
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Wishin' for fishin'
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Brockton
Posts: 1,651
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Between them and the seagulls, I can't keep my bait uncovered
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08-06-2006, 07:58 PM
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HUH???
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Lake City, South Carolina
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WTF is that thing????
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A pebble, in the right place can prevent an Avalanche.
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08-06-2006, 08:59 PM
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West Siiiiiiiiide
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: San Francisco
Posts: 405
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Every time you've posted in a thread with the new sig someone always asks 'wtf is that thing!?!' lol. It's a stargazer.
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Lookin for my big'un!
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08-06-2006, 09:06 PM
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No Shorts On
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Bassachusetts
Posts: 1,109
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Rats NUTHIN' How about the darn SKUNKS! Had one walking down by the rocks just above me....talk about standing still! I lost a jig I was so still!!
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Bob Thomas
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08-06-2006, 09:16 PM
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Stuck In Reality
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Holden MA
Posts: 4,519
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How about when they go after your eels, or they start fighting over something.
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08-06-2006, 09:58 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Burlington
Posts: 2,290
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I always wondered how the rats survive after a extreme high tide. Such as the one last winter when the ditch was full and overflowing. You would think they would get drowned.
Anyone who has seen the rats have also seen the humongus black snakes that hang in the rocks, trying to ambush a rat or mouse. I was fishing near highbanks one morning and saw the biggest snake ever. He was near the edge of the road and I was coming up from the edge of the ditch. Without exagerating, it was damn near 5 feet long - black and fat. That snake sent chills up my spine!  |
low & slow 37
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08-07-2006, 03:32 AM
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Hydro Orientated Lures
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Brockton,Ma
Posts: 8,484
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not just the ditch .. I've seen huge rats in other rocky areas .. One place has a rat crossing . If you pay attention you'll see one run by every half hour on the same path. Multi million dollar homes there . If they only knew..
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Belcher Goonfoock (retired)
(dob 4-21-07)
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08-07-2006, 11:27 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Cape Cod
Posts: 210
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Originally Posted by gone fishin
I always wondered how the rats survive after a extreme high tide. Such as the one last winter when the ditch was full and overflowing. You would think they would get drowned.
Anyone who has seen the rats have also seen the humongus black snakes that hang in the rocks, trying to ambush a rat or mouse. I was fishing near highbanks one morning and saw the biggest snake ever. He was near the edge of the road and I was coming up from the edge of the ditch. Without exagerating, it was damn near 5 feet long - black and fat. That snake sent chills up my spine! |
ive been fishing the canal my entire life and ive never seen a snake. plenty of rats, but never a snake. that is scary! |
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08-07-2006, 11:56 AM
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Boston Anglah
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Sitting on top of the world with my legs hangin free
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yucky doody
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Used hard and put away dirty....
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08-07-2006, 12:26 PM
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Canal Junkie
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Raynham
Posts: 1,678
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black racers for the win!
snakes are so cute.
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aim: SaltedBrian
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08-07-2006, 12:54 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 833
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Imagine how many rats there would be if not for the snakes  |
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08-07-2006, 01:01 PM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
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Problem is that a 5' snake will eat one Canal-sized rat, and take two weeks to digest it. Won't eat another one. And there are thousands of rats and only a handful of snakes.
Same situation with seals and great whites. One or two sharks won't make a dent in the seal numbers  And seals breed faster than whites. |
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
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08-07-2006, 01:02 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 5,945
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10-12 years ago, camping at
scussett.. ran into one of the biggest rats I've ever seen on the rocks there... looked as large as a small raccoon, thought it might be a possum at first, but as I got closer.. nope.. Rat...
same trip, couple days later, mid day sitting on the rocks with my kids, my son dropped his soda can and it fell into the rocks... he started to stick his arm down to get it and yelped, and jumped... I looked in the crevice... I have no idea how long, but there was a black snake in there, that was huge! Diameter was amazing.. we, made real good time back to the camper....
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08-07-2006, 01:03 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 833
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Maybe we can train the seals to eat rats  |
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08-07-2006, 01:12 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Gloucester, MA
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Or the rats to eat the seals. Or even better yet for them to eat each other.
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08-07-2006, 01:13 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Gloucester, MA
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I bet these rats would make good shark bait floating in a slick offshore.
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08-07-2006, 02:20 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: in a structure with a roof
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the rats help keep it clean from all the slobs . I have learned to never place my bait on the rocks . the snakes eat the rats , the homeless eat the rats hi ho the deery o the rats eat the bait
rats are good seals are bad !
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08-08-2006, 02:13 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: South East Mass.
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What will eat the snakes??? haha
I had a racoon follow me down a jetti one night last year. I didnt know he was there until I got to the end. I was scratching my head, wondering how I had gone through so much mackeral, when I noticed the 2 eyes eerily reflecting in the moonlight a couple feet away from me...
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08-08-2006, 02:51 PM
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Scuttlebutt
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Westport,MA
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Originally Posted by gone fishin
Anyone who has seen the rats have also seen the humongus black snakes that hang in the rocks, trying to ambush a rat or mouse. I was fishing near highbanks one morning and saw the biggest snake ever. He was near the edge of the road and I was coming up from the edge of the ditch. Without exagerating, it was damn near 5 feet long - black and fat. That snake sent chills up my spine! |
i'm never fishing on rocks again...the fish can wait..  |
Wasajigifying -[ was - a - jig-i-fy-ing] - the concept of not knowing what the hell your saying.
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08-08-2006, 03:04 PM
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Canal Junkie
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Raynham
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Originally Posted by Mike P
Problem is that a 5' snake will eat one Canal-sized rat, and take two weeks to digest it. Won't eat another one. And there are thousands of rats and only a handful of snakes.
Same situation with seals and great whites. One or two sharks won't make a dent in the seal numbers And seals breed faster than whites. |
but 1 - 5' snake will EASILY take down a whole nest of rat babies as well, and snakes being opportunists, will choose that over mommy rat every time
however, still more rats, and rats still win...
too bad that it gets cold here, letting a few water monitors and burmese pythons go along the canal would solve that problem, quickly... |
aim: SaltedBrian
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08-08-2006, 03:39 PM
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Hydro Orientated Lures
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Brockton,Ma
Posts: 8,484
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I hear rats are pretty tasty .. haven't got that desperate after a good skunking .. not yet ..  |
Belcher Goonfoock (retired)
(dob 4-21-07)
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08-08-2006, 04:11 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Southern NH
Posts: 3,781
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Originally Posted by bjs
but 1 - 5' snake will EASILY take down a whole nest of rat babies as well, and snakes being opportunists, will choose that over mommy rat every time
however, still more rats, and rats still win...
too bad that it gets cold here, letting a few water monitors and burmese pythons go along the canal would solve that problem, quickly...
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If I was one of those snakes without venom I would worry about getting eaten by the rats... When I was kid I saw a BIG RAT kill a small tough dog when surrounded by a pack of dogs.... then the bigger dogs shredded Mr. Rat. |
Good health and family
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08-08-2006, 04:14 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2000
Posts: 936
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Whadda talking about?
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Canalratt1
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08-08-2006, 04:59 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Southern NH
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Originally Posted by Canalratt1
Whadda talking about?
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Sorry Man  |
Good health and family
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