wes79
Well-known member
I have now managed to explain to myself why I had been getting a collection of small (what seemed like) knocks on the quiver every time I fished a certain swim before the Barbel and Chub came on the feed.......it was Bats.
I watched them feeding (just before dusk they would start patroling the area) and making a few plucks at the line which must of confused them into thinking there was an insect where the line was, strange eh?
It doesn't bother me so much to be honest but I have now wondered if the Bats can actually weaken your line where they make a grab for it, normally just above the water line where the natural food source is already flying around, that is assuming they literally bite the line making the tip register a false bite.
Anyone else experience this?
What do you make of it?
I watched them feeding (just before dusk they would start patroling the area) and making a few plucks at the line which must of confused them into thinking there was an insect where the line was, strange eh?
It doesn't bother me so much to be honest but I have now wondered if the Bats can actually weaken your line where they make a grab for it, normally just above the water line where the natural food source is already flying around, that is assuming they literally bite the line making the tip register a false bite.
Anyone else experience this?
What do you make of it?