Hi all,

I know there's been a couple of threads on here lately regarding accidently hooking bats. I saw something tonight which stunned me, in 30 years of fishing I've never seen this.

I was fishing a local small fishery, it was just about dark but enough light to make out the silhouette of my CDC sedge sitting proud on the water. There were a few bats flying about the surface when all of a sudden one decides to fly over the sedge and take it off the water!!

It made it about 3 - 4 feet up into the air before I gave the line a sharp tug and it let it go.

Never seen that happen before. Has anyone else?

yes, but i landed it.



took a griffiths knat..



safely played(in the air) hook removed and released.

What weight was in it, it looks like a good 1.2- 1.4 Oz.
Was it a PB?

whats a PB?

Personal best..... duh!

Looks bigger than the one he landed on the clyde....

yip and a different kind too, catch and release bat fishing is the new thing.

I was always impressed with the bat's legendary echo location system - until that is, one flew into my rod tip as I walked along the banks of the Teifi one night. It stunned itself and took quite a while to revive.

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Well I thought he might have meant Pipistrel Bat lol. Which is what it proably was

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lol i was just about to post pic with me wearing a bizare hat
i really need to go to specsavers lol

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