Random noises out on the water 2024
BassB8Caster reply :
Lately while ive been out fishing (i fish mainly small ponds under 200 acres) i have heard more trees crash than in my life time. It seems lately every outing i hear a tree fall. Just seems super odd that all of a sudden im hearing this. I have spend many many hours in the outdoors in my life and have not heard this many trees fall. The past week i have done my first bit of night fishing, and along with a tree crashing, i have heard some sort of animal wading around in the shoreline about 100 feet away. A little unnerving for first time night fishing on a pond with absolutely no lights. The first night i went out it seemed that every little sound spooked me.
What weird noises have you guys heard out on the water (both day and night)?
Jar11591 reply :
I was night-fishing one time a couple years ago on a small pond and heard what sounded to be several coyotes yipping and barking directly on the other side. Too dark to see them, but they were definitely there.
First time I ever heard a beaver smack his tail in the water it scared me half to death. I thought a Tyrannosaurus rex had just jumped in the lake.
GORDO reply :
Its a darn Sasquatch!
J Francho reply :
Wait until a bat ticks your braid....lol.
scaleface reply :
On 8/31/2016 at 2:16 AM, J Francho said:Wait until a bat ticks your braid....lol.
Those bat taps really feel good .
I dont get spooked easily . Coyotes , owls , crashing in the weeds , that is all music too my ears .
. I was fishing on a rockbar one night and heard footsteps , crunching on the rocks . I had a lantern on and couldnt see more than a few feet past that . So I had to go investigate and didnt find anything . It wasnt unnerving , but it was perplexing .
WRB reply :
Moose move around at night and bears are out and about.
Bats hitting your line is part of night fishing.
Tom
A-Jay reply :
Stand by friend ~
Wait until you unknowing slip into an area where one or two beaver may be hanging out.
You'll mostly likely know when you do. There will be a sudden & without warning Aquatic Explosion right next to your boat.
They will smash that big tail on the waters surface. It's So Very Loud and Sudden that it always scares the Bejesus out of me. (I don't actually know what that means, but it's fun to say) 
No matter how many times it happens ~ I still hate it !
A-Jay
Alonerankin2 reply :
Had a single whitetail swim by at night several years ago.
I could hear it coming, I had zero clue it was a deer. That Doe was getting on with the dog paddle let me tell ya!
Night fishing is always special..
S. Sass reply :
"A little unnerving for first time night fishing on a pond with absolutely no lights."
Really? Who does this? Absolutely no lights and you went fishing at night no less for the first time! 
On 8/31/2016 at 2:11 AM, GORDO said:Its a darn Sasquatch!
On 8/31/2016 at 2:16 AM, J Francho said:Wait until a bat ticks your braid....lol.
A few trips ago we got in a place that it was so bad. We eventually left the area you couldn't fish they were hitting us in the head and buzzing us so bad.
I don't know what made them so irritated that night. We have been back and not had any issues.
GORDO reply :
On 8/31/2016 at 2:32 AM, A-Jay said:Stand by friend ~
Wait until you unknowing slip into an area where one or two beaver may be hanging out.
You'll mostly likely know when you do. There will be a sudden & without warning Aquatic Explosion right next to your boat.
They will smash that big tail on the waters surface. It's So Very Loud and Sudden that it always scares the Bejesus out of me. (I don't actually know what that means, but it's fun to say)
No matter how many times it happens ~ I still hate it !
A-Jay
I almost fell out of my boat last month when a beaver did this to me LOL couldnt have been more than 10 yards away and I never even saw it!
Onvacation reply :
Yep. Beaver aren't shy, do a great job of tree removal, and seem to really like scaring anglers.
Yeajray231 reply :
Am I the only one who thinks 200 acres is a lake lol?. To me a pond would be under 20 acres. I'm sure there is guidelines but what do I know. The biggest "pond" I get to fish is 4 acres. Followed by a 3 acre and a 1 1/2 acre. I've caught the biggest bass out of the 3 acre.
Then there is a 3000+ acre "pond" right by my house. Which I don't frequent much because of all the pleasure boaters and the natural "choppiness" of the lake. But it is one of the very few lakes in ohio where they stock musky annually. But unfortunately for me I haven't been dealt the life of leisure. And I've brought another life into this world, which makes fishing time cut into like a fourth.
Wouldn't change it for the world though. I'm cool as long as I touch a bass's mouth at least once a week.
ward131 reply :
"Buck Snort" Canoeing along the shore line at night and this deer snored so loud! Scared the hell out of me.
Scott F reply :
Several years ago I was on a fly-in trip in Northern Manitoba. While we were a few miles from the cabin, it got extremely windy. It was so rough on the water, we had to pull the 14 foot boat up on the shore to try and wait till the wind died down and we could get back to the cabin safely. The island we took shelter on was damaged by a forest fire a few years before. The pine trees that were still standing were just tall, dead, sticks. The wind that drove us off the water, was knocking down trees all around us. We didn't know if it was safer facing the 5 foot waves that might sink our boat, or risk having a dead tree fall on us. Luckily, the wind died before anything fell on us and we got back to camp in one piece. I remember all too well what falling trees sound like.
Bassguytom reply :
I like when beavers slap their tails. 
geo g reply :
There must be a squatch in them hills!!!!!!!!!!!!!
CrustyMono reply :
some dude making a weird noise while i was cat fishing i grunted back as a joke then he stole my rods
FordsnFishin reply :
Last week I was out fishing, standing on the front deck, all of a sudden a freaking muskrat popped up right next to my boat and continued to scratch all around the outside trying to get in. Scared the heck out of me. Told the woman later that night, she asked what would have I done if he got in. Truth is, I very well might have jumped out of my boat!
Couple years back, I decided to catfish all night by myself on shore. I kept my lights off so my eyes could adjust to the night. Night goes on, and sometime around 1 a.m I must have fallen asleep. Because what I awoke to was a blue herring landing literally 5 feet from me. Awake now, I jumped up freaked out, which freaked it out. If any of you have been around these birds you know the awful screech they make. Well this big ol bird took off in a storm literally feet above my head, yelling its lungs out. I was wide awake the rest of the night...
scaleface reply :
On 8/31/2016 at 10:11 AM, FordsnFishin said:Last week I was out fishing, standing on the front deck, all of a sudden a freaking muskrat popped up right next to my boat and continued to scratch all around the outside trying to get in. Scared the heck out of me. Told the woman later that night, she asked what would have I done if he got in. Truth is, I very well might have jumped out of my boat!
Couple years back, I decided to catfish all night by myself on shore. I kept my lights off so my eyes could adjust to the night. Night goes on, and sometime around 1 a.m I must have fallen asleep. Because what I awoke to was a blue herring landing literally 5 feet from me. Awake now, I jumped up freaked out, which freaked it out. If any of you have been around these birds you know the awful screech they make. Well this big ol bird took off in a storm literally feet above my head, yelling its lungs out. I was wide awake the rest of the night...
I was catfishing in a boat one night , sitting in the rear seat and a blue Herron came out of nowhere and landed in the front ..I'll admit , that scared me . Then I just watched it for a minute before he took off .
N Florida Mike reply :
Our boat broke down way up a wild river one evening and we paddled all the way back to the ramp against the current.It took us 4 hours.
On the way dozens of barred owls began hooting.lve heard them a lot but never like this.You couldn't tell when one started or when it ended.
WRB reply :
On 8/31/2016 at 10:55 AM, N Florida Mike said:Our boat broke down way up a wild river one evening and we paddled all the way back to the ramp against the current.It took us 4 hours.
On the way dozens of barred owls began hooting.lve heard them a lot but never like this.You couldn't tell when one started or when it ended.
You have alligators!
Master Bait'r reply :
Drought will always lead to a big uptick in deadfall. Trees are going down everywhere. Seriously, if you have been in a drought stricken are and have a borderline tree in your yard either up your homeowners coverage and start picking out shingles or take it down now before the first ice storm lol
MikeWright reply :
@BassB8Caster
Sorry, that was me, had to get my lures from those limbs!!! 
Bluebasser86 reply :
Spring turkey hunters, and then fall and winter deer and duck hunters get me when they're close by when they start blasting.
Only one I caught explain was about a baseball sized rock getting launched at my boat out of a very thick stand of trees a couple months back. It would take some work for a person to get to the area it came from, and I was quite a ways off the shoreline, but apparently someone didn't like me fishing where I was. I couldn't see anything and didn't want to get any closer for obvious reasons.
clh121787 reply :
Good Lord created night time for 2 things. Fishin wasn't one of them
Turkey sandwich reply :
You haven't experienced night fishing until you've experienced weird noises, crazy bugs, and eyes out in the distance. Watching someone freak out when a Dobson fly gets tangled in their hair is almost indescribable hilarity, especially if you convince them they're flesh eating.
Still one of my best and most terrifying days on the water came on a farm pond leading up to one of the most violent thunderstorms I've ever experienced breaking. Trees fell as we ran. It was bad. Really bad. I caught a limit between 4 and 6.5lbs (I'm in PA, give me some slack, a 25lb bag in northern PA borders on divine revelation...) and all hell broke loose. Lightening struck 3-4 times within 30 yards as we were running like hell through the woods with rods in hand. I saw two trees basically explode and lightening struck, at one point, just 20-30 feet off the swamp/trail we'd previously crossed. At that time, never had I ever been so terrified. Turns out, tornados touched down in the township while we were getting off the water. We lucked out. No one forecasted epic lightening and tornados.
BassB8Caster reply :
On 8/31/2016 at 3:37 AM, S. Sass said:"A little unnerving for first time night fishing on a pond with absolutely no lights."
Really? Who does this? Absolutely no lights and you went fishing at night no less for the first time!
I should have been more specific. I had lights to see in my kayak but there were no other lights on the water (no docks, camps with lights etc).
BassB8Caster reply :
Some great tales already. This topic turned out better than I expected. My first night fishing I experienced the Beaver slap. Odd thing is I saw the Beaver come out off shore and swim out in front and around me to avoid me. Then about a minute later it sounded like a sasquatch jumped in the water.
soflabasser reply :
On 8/31/2016 at 10:55 AM, N Florida Mike said:Our boat broke down way up a wild river one evening and we paddled all the way back to the ramp against the current.It took us 4 hours.
On the way dozens of barred owls began hooting.lve heard them a lot but never like this.You couldn't tell when one started or when it ended.
Hearing owls is one of my favorite aspects of night fishing, must of been nice to hear so many owls making sounds at once.
FordsnFishin reply :
On 8/31/2016 at 10:32 AM, scaleface said:I was catfishing in a boat one night , sitting in the rear seat and a blue Herron came out of nowhere and landed in the front ..I'll admit , that scared me . Then I just watched it for a minute before he took off .
They'll get ya! There are so many where I'm at its a regular occurrence to have them scare you. They like sitting in the trees and as soon as you troll by they fly off screeching to holy hell.
Red Bear reply :
On 8/31/2016 at 1:59 AM, BassB8Caster said:Lately while ive been out fishing (i fish mainly small ponds under 200 acres) i have heard more trees crash than in my life time. It seems lately every outing i hear a tree fall. Just seems super odd that all of a sudden im hearing this. I have spend many many hours in the outdoors in my life and have not heard this many trees fall. The past week i have done my first bit of night fishing, and along with a tree crashing, i have heard some sort of animal wading around in the shoreline about 100 feet away. A little unnerving for first time night fishing on a pond with absolutely no lights. The first night i went out it seemed that every little sound spooked me.
What weird noises have you guys heard out on the water (both day and night)?
bigfoot trying to intimidate you to get off "his" pond at night so he can enjoy it for himself. theyre known for pushing trees over. it was also him you heard wading, he may have a family to protect that uses the pond at night
On 8/31/2016 at 2:26 PM, Bluebasser86 said:Spring turkey hunters, and then fall and winter deer and duck hunters get me when they're close by when they start blasting.
Only one I caught explain was about a baseball sized rock getting launched at my boat out of a very thick stand of trees a couple months back. It would take some work for a person to get to the area it came from, and I was quite a ways off the shoreline, but apparently someone didn't like me fishing where I was. I couldn't see anything and didn't want to get any closer for obvious reasons.
definitely bigfoot here. ive read a bunch of similar encounters. he wanted you gone. they love to throw rocks
2tall79 reply :
Fishing Lake Roosevelt few years back. Three A-6's flew over at tree top. Needed a change of underwear shortly after.
J Francho reply :
On 8/31/2016 at 3:50 PM, clh121787 said:Fishin wasn't one of them
Speak for yourself, though I'm glad many think this way, lol.
Yeajray231 reply :
@ I'm pretty sure what ever those "two things" may be... are just as good in the day time ! ?
BassB8Caster reply :
On 9/1/2016 at 4:14 AM, J Francho said:Speak for yourself, though I'm glad many think this way, lol.
I agree. After having my first child 6 weeks ago, it works out best for me to fish at night while she sleeps vs early am or day when she is awake and my wife needs help. So I think a new father was one who first fished at night. There is only 24 hours in a given day. We can't always control our schedules. Life happens. So it's nice to still be able to venture out with nature and do some fishing at night!
Senko lover reply :
On 8/31/2016 at 2:26 PM, Bluebasser86 said:Spring turkey hunters, and then fall and winter deer and duck hunters get me when they're close by when they start blasting.
Only one I caught explain was about a baseball sized rock getting launched at my boat out of a very thick stand of trees a couple months back. It would take some work for a person to get to the area it came from, and I was quite a ways off the shoreline, but apparently someone didn't like me fishing where I was. I couldn't see anything and didn't want to get any closer for obvious reasons.
I would have pulled out your gun and showed them what real intimidation looked like.
Alonerankin2 reply :
On 8/31/2016 at 7:35 PM, soflabasser said:Hearing owls is one of my favorite aspects of night fishing, must of been nice to hear so many owls making sounds at once.
Yes Sir. It's one of my favorite aspects of Turkey hunting..
Reel Guy reply :
I had a beaver coming close to me in an inlet from this lake I was fishing. I looked down to get my camera out of my pocket and he flapped his tail and disappeared in a water explosion! Never saw or heard that before but he obviously did not want his picture taken. He was probably within 10-15 yards when he sounded the Dive! Dive! signal! Made me jump a bit! Okay, maybe more than a little.
Desync reply :
On 8/31/2016 at 2:26 PM, Bluebasser86 said:Spring turkey hunters, and then fall and winter deer and duck hunters get me when they're close by when they start blasting.
Only one I caught explain was about a baseball sized rock getting launched at my boat out of a very thick stand of trees a couple months back. It would take some work for a person to get to the area it came from, and I was quite a ways off the shoreline, but apparently someone didn't like me fishing where I was. I couldn't see anything and didn't want to get any closer for obvious reasons.
Not sure about where you live, but if that happened around here, you can guarantee those bushes would of been lit up with gunfire and would have been wrote up as an accident of self defense.
Off Topic Story
Years and years and years ago, lets go back like 25 years ago, when i was about 7, my parents use to rent this house and it had a lake on the property that me and my father fished from a lot. We ended up moving out and another guy ended up buying the whole property. He always had trouble of ppl coming thru the woods and fishing on the backside of the pond, it was just a small spread of trees that seperated the pond from a main road with houses, so they would just walk thru those woods and fish at the pond whenever they wanted.
It got to the point they was just littering the ground really bad around there and throwing their trash into the water and he has ran them off before, so he got a bunch of no trespassing signs and posted them around the lake and waited. He went back down there the next day and sure enough, 2 people was down there fishing again. This time he carried his deer rifle down to the water and waited until they threw their line out and he literally blew their bobber out of the water right in front of them. Of course they ran off and he went down and gathered all their rods and tackle box for his own collection. He went ahead and called the cops and told them what happened and it being his land cops told him he could do whatever he wanted on his own land, for all the cops know he was shooting at turtles .
Turkey sandwich reply :
Yeah, as a guy who's taught self defense as well as some combative tactics for police and military for the better part of the last 10 years, I'm going to very strongly urge none of you to actually start shooting at people.
Gundog reply :
On 9/1/2016 at 11:38 AM, Turkey sandwich said:Yeah, as a guy who's taught self defense as well as some combative tactics for police and military for the better part of the last 10 years, I'm going to very strongly urge none of you to actually start shooting at people.
Agreed. Don't do anything you will regret later. I've been warned off property that I use to fish. And I have always been polite with those who have told to leave. Thankfully nobody has ever pulled a gun.
N Florida Mike reply :
A friend and me were fishing the home lake when we were 17-18.All of a sudden, rocks began to land around us.A couple even in the boat.I saw a younger kid,maybe 14, heaving the rocks while trying to stay hidden.What he didn't know was that I was one of the best rock throwers in the county having played pitcher on my baseball teams.I immediately threw the rocks back and hit him with at least one of them.He ran in the house crying.
I think if you lived on my lake in the 70s through the 90s you had to have passed a test confirming mental illness.There were a lot of crazy people here then.Its settled down some since .
Catch 22 reply :
As many have said,you have not lived til you experience a beaver tail slap,blue heron squawk,bat line hit or a snake trying to enter your boat at night.I`m a seasoned vet.
Anyone ever surprise a groundhog up close.Its noisy.
C22
N Florida Mike reply :
No,but I've surprised nutrias before.They swim away in the water but they'll hiss at you if they feel threatened.
win300mag1 reply :
Sounds like you could end up on finding Bigfoot lol. Not sure if you carry but I would. Obviously i wouldnt empty a magazine into the brush but seeing as I don't have sharp teeth or claws, my 1911 is a huge comfort.
Fishing Cowgirl reply :
Trying to get away from a gator fight is always interesting. You can hear the gators when they grab up a wild pig or bird. Scariest is the duck hunters. You see ducks swimming and realize one group of ducks isn't swimming, and they are actually decoys. You just announce out loud.."we are leaving. this spots yours!" But you have the poachers too that drive along shooting at ducks in the water and they don't care how far you try to get away from them. (Yes, I did call the Game and Fish agency on them because it's not only illegal but dangerous to us since they were aiming our direction too.) This was on Lake Kissimmee.
BassB8Caster reply :
On 9/3/2016 at 1:45 AM, Fishing Cowgirl said:Trying to get away from a gator fight is always interesting. You can hear the gators when they grab up a wild pig or bird. Scariest is the duck hunters. You see ducks swimming and realize one group of ducks isn't swimming, and they are actually decoys. You just announce out loud.."we are leaving. this spots yours!" But you have the poachers too that drive along shooting at ducks in the water and they don't care how far you try to get away from them. (Yes, I did call the Game and Fish agency on them because it's not only illegal but dangerous to us since they were aiming our direction too.) This was on Lake Kissimmee.
Thank god we dont have gators. Couldnt imagine rolling up on then while fighting or eating.
Ratherbfishing reply :
It seems the older I get and the less food agrees with me, the more "random noises on the water" there seems to be.
Buckeye Ron reply :
Fishing a local lake one sunny morning around a real small island. As I made my way around the island I heard a very loud crashing sound right behind the boat. Scared me into next week! It was a large Whitetail buck that I evidently spooked out of its hiding spot. Pretty sure I was more spooked than the deer.
Fishing Cowgirl reply :
On 9/3/2016 at 1:58 AM, Ratherbfishing said:It seems the older I get and the less food agrees with me, the more "random noises on the water" there seems to be.
My husband does random noises too. I refer to those as his fish call. The louder the bigger the fish.
Desync reply :
On 9/1/2016 at 11:47 AM, Gundog said:Agreed. Don't do anything you will regret later. I've been warned off property that I use to fish. And I have always been polite with those who have told to leave. Thankfully nobody has ever pulled a gun.
Without trying to sound rude, why would you fish on a property you had no permission to fish on? If you did have permission to fish the property and someone else tried to ask you to leave, then they would just have to call the cops or the property owner who gave you permission to get it handled. Of course as they say, sometimes it's best to just walk away to avoid confrontation, but if I was in the right I wouldn't leave unless asked by the property owner.
On 9/1/2016 at 11:38 AM, Turkey sandwich said:Yeah, as a guy who's taught self defense as well as some combative tactics for police and military for the better part of the last 10 years, I'm going to very strongly urge none of you to actually start shooting at people.
I understand what you are saying, but just my opinion its the guys property and he had no trespassing signs, so if he was shooting at turtles, it's not his fault if someone else was on his property on the other side of the lake. Down here in the south property owners handle their own.
Ok back on topic, sorry about derailing from the topic of the thread.
Gundog reply :
On 9/4/2016 at 9:24 AM, Desync said:Without trying to sound rude, why would you fish on a property you had no permission to fish on? If you did have permission to fish the property and someone else tried to ask you to leave, then they would just have to call the cops or the property owner who gave you permission to get it handled. Of course as they say, sometimes it's best to just walk away to avoid confrontation, but if I was in the right I wouldn't leave unless asked by the property owner.
The fact is only one of those cases I didn't know it was private property. It was a situation where I was just over the property line and a year prior the property was not posted. The other cases I will be completely honest, I knew it was private property but in my youth I wasn't as law-abiding as I am now. I did stuff I would probably regret if I had landed in jail for it. But since I didn't I don't regret the experiences. And like I said, never got into an argument and was always polite about it. One thing about me, when I'm caught doing something I admit it and am apologetic about it. I'd make a bad career criminal.
Desync reply :
On 9/4/2016 at 9:59 AM, Gundog said:The fact is only one of those cases I didn't know it was private property. It was a situation where I was just over the property line and a year prior the property was not posted. The other cases I will be completely honest, I knew it was private property but in my youth I wasn't as law-abiding as I am now. I did stuff I would probably regret if I had landed in jail for it.
But since I didn't I don't regret the experiences. And like I said, never got into an argument and was always polite about it. One thing about me, when I'm caught doing something I admit it and am apologetic about it. I'd make a bad career criminal.
Haha, understandable. We've all done the same in our youth. Now that I'm getting older I feel like the grumpy old man in the neighborhood.
soflabasser reply :
I agree with Gundog that you must be polite when fishing a body of water that isn't public.As the saying goes "you attract more bees with honey" than you know what.Be kind to property owners and you will most likely have access to private waters that many can only dream about .
Yeajray231 reply :
I can't stand people who come on my grand mother's property . They come in and throw every bluegill they catch on the bank. @Gundog I always liked your posts. You're a funny dude. I don't know you personally. And growing up I definitely was not a saint. I just have no respect for someone who would come on my land and treat something that brings me so much joy with so much disrespect.
I know this is a family site so I won't say what I would like to do to whoever is doing this on my property.
Turkey sandwich reply :
Disrespecting property/killing fish/leaving a mess is one thing, politely apologizing, complimenting the property owner, and if goes well, asking future permission is another. I grew up fishing farm ponds on private property in can only recall one negative incident, and the circumstances had to do with a property dispute and later sale that we knew nothing about.
As as for differences in the south, really, there aren't many. If someone testifies they were shot at, good luck retaining your freedom, let alone your property. I'm very pro gun, and irresponsibly "shooting at turtles" is exactly why so much of the country isn't. Bravado is cool until it lands you in jail.
Jonister reply :
Otters hanging out in trees is something scary! Those Little weasels just start whistling when you get close and plop off into the water, only to follow you a couple hundred yards down the bank.
There's this one place I fish occasionally for panfish. The one time I ever went alone, I sure regretted it. It was last summer with one of those Full Full moons. I rode my bike to the spot, and started a few hours before dark. I only planned on fishing till then but the moon was so bright I decided to stay. I was catching fish so time flew by and at about 10:30 it just got weird. It was off the river by a canal pump and some thick sticky fog moved in. In about 45 seconds it went from full visibility to just plain weird. Something felt off, like my hair stood up for no reason. That feeling you get when your just yards from a cougar, or a bear, and you can practically smell it's presence.
I decided to keep fishing. To anybody out there, when your body tells you something's up, don't keep fishing! So basically it still lingered, and the pump station I was by started pumping a little water, nothing special. But whatever was there took their chance to creep closer to me. It was at that point that I started to hear noises that I took off like a bat out of hell! Clearing over a hill, and hauling a** down it, I noticed that every cow in a plot of land next to it had circled the young like they do when a predator is around, and were all in that planted stance. I swear I got home so fast on that bike!
I have never been so scared in my life. It was one of those moments you would only understand if you'd been there. I still remember that feeling, and it's one I never want to feel again!
Further North reply :
On 8/31/2016 at 2:04 AM, Jar11591 said:First time I ever heard a beaver smack his tail in the water it scared me half to death. I thought a Tyrannosaurus Rex had just jumped in the lake.
I was fishing a channel between two larger lakes up in Canada, came around a corner and was about 15 feet away from a beaver...surprised both of us...sounded like a rifle shot when his tail hit the water.
...more beaver weirdness...this June up on Lake of the Woods every night about 8:00 - 8:15 PM there'd be beavers all over the place. One spot we were in we could see 5 all at the same time within a hundred yards of the boat...
Further North reply :
On 9/4/2016 at 2:25 AM, Buckeye Ron said:Fishing a local lake one sunny morning around a real small island. As I made my way around the island I heard a very loud crashing sound right behind the boat. Scared me into next week! It was a large Whitetail buck that I evidently spooked out of its hiding spot. Pretty sure I was more spooked than the deer.
I see deer a lot around here...A lot of our lakes have undeveloped shoreline and they're pretty common.
October of '14 I was about 2 hours north of here on a small river chasing muskies and saw two different groups of elk at the edge of the water.
Seeing moose out on the water in Canada is cool too.
Montanaro reply :
I was in 40 fow in kayak at night and had a huge musky bump the underside...also have had them surface beside me at night.
Have heard a lot of.coyotes...love that noise
Darren. reply :
Heck, I've had beavers and otters scare the living daylights
out of me during the DAY! Couldn't imagine fishing out of
my yak in the dead of night in our waters.
Incarcerated Otter reply :
Possum screams are interesting when walking down a dark trail! lol
kjfishman reply :
We were fishing Deer Lake near Marquette Mi and heard what sounded like a cat meowing. Then a LARGE Mountain Lion appeared on the shore in front of us and it wasn't making meowing sounds anymore it was more like growls. I didn't fumble around looking for my camera I just got us away from the shore as fast as I could.
that possum reply :
There's this one lake near me that we tube fish because there no vehicle access to it so we just make the hike with float tubes. It's chocked full of drum. In the summer those Big male make that deep croaking sound. Sometimes it will actually vibrate your tube as you're fishing. No idea how close they are to me but it sounds like they are between my knees. As a kid my dad and his friend would tell me they were the sounds the dead would make, as a lot of our lakes were built over old graveyards.
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