Thread: Mice. Heaps of bloody mice.

Originally Posted by GWH

Wow really, didnt know that. Surely drowning has to be a faster more humane death than the slow hideous suffering prior to death as a result of some of the poisons the Govt uses.

Nah. Mice are good swimmers and will just go round and round in circles for hours until they collapse from exhaustion, and then drown. Takes forever.

In 2015 in Tassie, I fished Lake Roseberry with my mate Steve. After the morning feed it had all gone quiet so he moved the boat over to a spot on his GPS just off a small nearshore islet, and said “watch this”. He reached into his special bait bag and pulled out a half frozen mouse with a hook protruding from its belly and a thin trace coming out of its mouth. On about the fifth or sixth retrieve it got hammered by a fat as brown trout, best one of the day.

When they were fighting the bushfires in 2013 the firefighting boats on the lake were spraying the shore, the fireman watched legions of rats and mice swimming across the lake to get away from the flames.