{"id":7277,"date":"2012-01-01T04:04:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-01T03:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/?p=7277"},"modified":"2013-12-05T23:42:28","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T22:42:28","slug":"beware-of-the-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/beware-of-the-sheep\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of the sheep!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7278\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7278 \" title=\"Beware the sheep\" alt=\"Beware the sheep\" src=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2011\/12\/sheep.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2011\/12\/sheep.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2011\/12\/sheep-137x150.jpg 137w, https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2011\/12\/sheep-274x300.jpg 274w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7278\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Friend&#8230; or foe?<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Last week I ventured out for a day session on what was to be my winter water until spring of 2012. The lake that I have been fishing is a 17 acre reservoir on the borders of Shropshire and Staffordshire and access to the lake is half mile drive across a sheep field. Parking is in the field near to the lake.<\/p>\n<p>The weather was cold and the journey to the lake was a little hazardous due to icy roads. The gritting lorries had been out doing their jobs by salting the roads which made all but the last couple of miles ice free.<\/p>\n<p>On arrival I could see that half of the lake was frozen, this being the shallow section. I parked up and made my way through hundreds of sheep to the far end of the lake where the water was deeper and fishable.<\/p>\n<p>No fish to my name and with the weather deteriorating, I decided to call at a day just before dark. I got back to my car I moved on around 15 sheep and noticed that there was a patch 3 inch area where paint was missing from my rear bumper. My thoughts were that I must have caught the paint work with my chair or reels when I emptied the car on my arrival. I thought no more about it until I examined the damage in the daylight the following day. There were a number of other scratches on paint work of the rear bumper and also deep gouge marks in the black plastic front and rear bumpers.<\/p>\n<p>I used a Stanley knife to smooth off the burr of the plastic. I wet my finger to see if water would hide the scratches left, and it was then that I tasted the salt off the bumper. <em><strong>The sheep had been using my car as a salt lick and had caused around \u00a3150 worth of damage!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I have spoken to my fishing colleague Wayne Dunn, and he has also suffered the same problem a few years ago when he was on another local water.<\/p>\n<p>I will return to the lake again in spring when the gritting lorries have retired to their garages and in the mean time I will find another winter water.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone has any ideas of how to stop the sheep using my car as a salt lick, please let me know. There is no way of fencing off the sheep, so any ideas would be appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Cooper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I ventured out for a day session on what was to be my winter water until spring of 2012. The lake that I have been fishing is a 17 acre reservoir on the borders of Shropshire and Staffordshire and access to the lake is half mile drive across a sheep field. Parking is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[190,1041],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglinglines.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}