Worst place for rats?

<(Andy2009)> said:
But all these places are all overshadowed by the amount of big rats found at the customs house (mill dam)/middle docks area. The place is heaving with the foul bait stealing buggers. Go down there on a low tide and fish and then shine your headlight on the rocks below. All you will see is the eyeshine of many, many rats :o!

From past experience I absolutely hate wild rats, had too many close encounters fishing the mill dam. A can remember on one occasion when i was fishing on a cold November night.

I was sat on my seatbox in the corner next to the pontoon gate, happily watching my rod-tip nod away with small whiting. I had a packet of bluey infront of me that I had already half used. It was time to reel in the small whiting and as a stood up I remember feeling something underfoot and before a could react there was a really loud screaming noise...

I had accidentaly stood on the tail of a greedy rat that was stuffing itself on my bluey. I physically fell over with fright and that night I think a did 100mtrs away from me seat box faster than Usane Bolt :D:D:D:D:D...

When a eventually creeped back to me away box am glad a reacted the way a did, and am glad a wore my steel toe boots... when a checked the ground around my fishing area a got a glimpse of me shoe and noticed a distinct bite mark where the rat had obviously struck out in self defence :o:exclam:.

Always keep food and bait tucked away now in me seatbox and baitbox, never want an experience like that again. ;)
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Fu**in nice account mate. I was on the edge of me chair never mind bait box reading that one. Class.
 
As a lad the Old Man used to take me to fish Sharpness, around this time of the year, on those quiet evenings, like now, before the beach fishing kicked in. In those days the sewer pipe was still in situ, hence the **** Hill mark.

You'd be stood there, rod on toe and you'd hear them come out from the boulders at the top of the tide and they'd scurry down the pipe, their nails scraping on the concrete. The Old Man would never move but I'd be turning around at every sound. Every time I turned around the scurrying would stop, only to start again as soon as I resumed my seaward gaze.

As the noise got clearer and clearer the Old Man would pass me his gad, put both hands in his pockets and randomly pepper the area with stones he'd picked up on the way, for that very purpose.

Now that the pipe's gone I see hardly any (that and not fishing so often) but I bet they're still there.
 
isnt it funny that everytime the word rat comes into conversation everyone has seen a huge rat,
personally i have never seen such a thing,i have done alot of ratting with dogs and ferrets,guns the lot,farms chicken houses,river banks,i must have killed thousands but to this day never have i laid my eyes on a big rat,
isnt it funny what the word fear can do to people when they hear the word rat,
 
g.ordon said:
Where's the worst place around here for being plagued by rats when fishing? Just wondered as was having a bag of chips for lunch down at the middens carpark when a giant one jumped out of the rocks in front of me. Put chips in the bin and fu**ed off as the sight of a rat completely fu*ks my whole day up.
I had a look up cambois the day and was just thinking that the estuary bank next to north blyth could be a canny shot for them.
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Been down to the Wear Glass Centre tonight.
Just after dark loads of Rats, 7 or 8 of them. You can see them literally coming up through the drain covers.

Stand still too long and they come up to you.

Yuk
 
raptorman said:
isnt it funny that everytime the word rat comes into conversation everyone has seen a huge rat,
personally i have never seen such a thing,i have done alot of ratting with dogs and ferrets,guns the lot,farms chicken houses,river banks,i must have killed thousands but to this day never have i laid my eyes on a big rat,
isnt it funny what the word fear can do to people when they hear the word rat,
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Must be an inbuilt human instinct for some mate. I mean I can't ever remember being threatened by a rat like
 
raptorman said:
isnt it funny that everytime the word rat comes into conversation everyone has seen a huge rat,
personally i have never seen such a thing,i have done alot of ratting with dogs and ferrets,guns the lot,farms chicken houses,river banks,i must have killed thousands but to this day never have i laid my eyes on a big rat,
isnt it funny what the word fear can do to people when they hear the word rat,
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You should read the paper or watch those documentaries about cleaning londons streets and else where... :cool:

A dunno if it was early this year or late last year, but the was the report of a few giant rats bring discovered and killed in peoples gardens, etc. The one that was all over the news and papers was 2ft 7inches long, with the tail being 1ft 5inched respectively. A long rat all the same, but it was the shear size/weight of the thing that caught peopled eyes...

These wernt just one off rats either, more and more were discovered down south, and this so called genetically bigger 'super rat' is being spotted more frequently in northern areas of the country.

Wouldn't want to find one of them in me bin if a had to put the rubbish oot on a dark night... :o :o :hallucine:
 
surprised theres no RaTs in me box its effing stinking in there it needs a good cleaning god knows how many rigs are hoyed in after a session :D
 
codseeker said:
surprised theres no RaTs in me box its effing stinking in there it needs a good cleaning god knows how many rigs are hoyed in after a session :D
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That is a coincidence mate, I've just this minute got me bag out to get ready for a sesh tomorrow and found a couple of rags in from last saturdays sesh up at eyemouth. F***in hangin.

Anyway what does constitute a big rat? Anyway, any rat does my napper in.
 
Rats i never worry about them i've got one of them pest controllers loves the little furry critters.Only thing is they don't seem to like playing with him....I think he plays to rough.
 

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Just fished the bottom of walker down at pottery bank - got back in the house at 9pm. After 7.30 the rats started coming out to play spotted at least 5 (no "Giant" or "Huge" ones). Saw plenty of little ones flitting about attacking the crabs. :):):D
 
Biggest rat ive seen was when i was fishing a club match afew weeks ago at the haven, nearly as big as a rabbit lol. Worst place ive noticed for them is the rubber factory there in the big holes there, the ones adam burns likes to fall down :D.
 
shaun said:
Biggest rat ive seen was when i was fishing a club match afew weeks ago at the haven, nearly as big as a rabbit lol. Worst place ive noticed for them is the rubber factory there in the big holes there, the ones adam burns likes to fall down :D.
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Class :D.

Humpty Adam fell doon the hole... :p

Mind you a can speak for myself, fell down a 5 foot deep old water drain on middle docks a couple years ago!! Hard to think how a could not see the 4ft wide hole like... :D
 
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working on green lane felling in one of the factories a few years ago and there was a bang and the power went off.the sprky reset the breakers and we all had a niff of somit cooking .couple of the lads sniffed it out to an electricity conduit(8in by 12 in box section)inside was a rat that had bitten through the wires n fried itsel ,turned the power back off and removed the rat and it was the size of a small cat,that's the biggest iv seen but the smallest was the most cheeky.



going through the underpass at jarrow bus station on the way to work(starting at 6 am)found rat nibbling on half a stotty,it stopped eating as i approached and kept a beady eye on is as i past ,i thought ya cheeky sod and launched a kick at it ,calm as you like it picked up the stotty and walked farther down the pass,on passing it the second time before i could lash out with another kick calm as you like picked it up n moved to its original position and concluded its meal before making off.
 
skiny said:
working on green lane felling in one of the factories a few years ago and there was a bang and the power went off.the sprky reset the breakers and we all had a niff of somit cooking .couple of the lads sniffed it out to an electricity conduit(8in by 12 in box section)inside was a rat that had bitten through the wires n fried itsel ,turned the power back off and removed the rat and it was the size of a small cat,that's the biggest iv seen but the smallest was the most cheeky.



going through the underpass at jarrow bus station on the way to work(starting at 6 am)found rat nibbling on half a stotty,it stopped eating as i approached and kept a beady eye on is as i past ,i thought ya cheeky sod and launched a kick at it ,calm as you like it picked up the stotty and walked farther down the pass,on passing it the second time before i could lash out with another kick calm as you like picked it up n moved to its original position and concluded its meal before making off.
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Pretty intelligent creatures really.
 
no doubt aabout that ,never had one always rabbits n g pigs for the kids but they make great pets and ARE CLEAN.:o:o
 

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