ducks

lil tip, if a lake is half frozen and u dont have enough room to fish catapult a few maggots on the edge of the ice the ducks will smash the ice up for you

[fozzie]

haha that's a great tip

[davebell]

my mate tried that yesterday but the bloody duck couldnt get up on the ice to eat the maggots lol

lol good tip, only problem is the ducks will probably get a taste for the maggets and go after your hook, then you got a flying fish

the ducks dont fly when there hooked, but there hard work to land, i caught 3 last summer and disgauged about 8

[fozzie]

i hooked a duckling last summer, my bait wasn't even in the water I was about to cast out and dangling my line in mid air. This little duckling just jumped up and took my hook. The mother duck went mental, as you could imagine.

Luckily it was disgauged quickly and no harm came, maybe a bit of distress (for all of us!)

[asoftuk]

As yet I have never hooked anything apart from fish and the rare overhanging branch which commited my hook to the tree gods.

[madcaravanner]

Ducks are a good alarm clock if you are on a river

Also an great way to annoy people if they are

stick loads of bread out at around 11pm
If you are aiming to wake some noisy neighbours wait until they are asleep before you put it on the roof of their boat

One of my sons used to do this when we were on the Broads so he could get up early to catch fish before the boat traffic started

And a group of hard drinking card playing insomniac Germans got it done to them one night but we had to wait until 4am to put the bread out they were that late and noisy no-one got much sleep


AND
As for dis-gorging -- ducks are easier than Swans let me tell you

lol i caught swan before funny things to unhook :P