NoBodyImportant Posted July 15, 2021 Report Share Posted July 15, 2021 22 hours ago, Houseplant said: Good shooting! I've done the fishing equivalent. One lure, two fish! I had a flounder at the top of the water. I reached for my net and a 8ft shark swallow the flounder whole. So I kinda caught two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Houseplant Posted July 15, 2021 Report Share Posted July 15, 2021 4 minutes ago, NoBodyImportant said: I had a flounder at the top of the water. I reached for my net and a 8ft shark swallow the flounder whole. So I kinda caught two. It's cool when stuff like that happens, as long as it doesn't happen too often! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoBodyImportant Posted July 15, 2021 Report Share Posted July 15, 2021 Just now, Houseplant said: It's cool when stuff like that happens, as long as it doesn't happen too often! I was in a kayak so cool wasn’t what I was thinking. 😂 I cut the line and got that kayak up on a plane toward shore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marsh man Posted July 15, 2021 Report Share Posted July 15, 2021 As one of the members have already said it happens a lot with shooting wildfowl , this is mainly because they sit in tight bunches and all jump at the same time . I was brought up at a time where shooting as many as possible with one or shots were the norm and it followed in the footprints of the market gunners, on our estuary we have got a South and North wall and before all the modern day restrictions like the hard weather bans we would eagerly look forward to severe weather from the North , this was when the estuary would fill up with fowl and when the tide was making up you would get big numbers sitting close to the North wall for shelter , in those days the wall was only about 8 / 9 foot with tall grass on the top and it was easy to look through the grass at the resting fowl that were sometimes only a matter of yards in front of you , at times there might just the odd flock and other times the flock could stretch for 100s of yards . Now a days it would be frowned upon but I can well remember the times where I have walked backwards and forwards along the bottom of the wall to see where my two shots would do the most damage , once finding where the duck are tightly bunched a shot across them sitting and the next one when they jumped would often leave anything up to double figures to pick up , if the water was to deep for your thigh boots or broken ice got in the way then I would take one of my gun punts out to pick the dead and dying up , now with all the food banks and no one going hungry those days are long gone , but looking back I am glad I went through them with no regrets . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
London Best Posted July 15, 2021 Report Share Posted July 15, 2021 Thanks for that Marshman. Proper old school wildfowling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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