How to stop cows charging
This has always worked for me . As a kid I used to spend a lot of time with a fella who was a poacher . When out harvesting he taught me never to run from cows . Stand your ground and make noise and they stop instantly ...works every time .
Love it Steve...Actually I think I am the only member with a cow in their Avatar
They have a wicked sense of humour despite everything.I think he's just keeping an eye on you in case you shag his missus.
I know it takes a brave man but I bet if you stand your ground they would get within 2 yards and bolt!Hard to ignore them when they charging you down a hill John.
This is something I'm nervous about whenever I've been out...
I have posted this before on BFW and even though I spent Summer holidays on a family farm as a kid I was really shaken / lucky that night. I think being quickly aware of their mood change saved me.
Back in the early 90's I was fishing Turvey on the Great Ouse above the road bridge on a Rushden and Higham Ferrer ticket. I had never seen a cow or cow pat in the field before and had fished there a couple of years. 2am in the morning the Moon was very bright, something weird told me I was going to be charged by a Bull. Looking across the field behind me 100 +m away there were gaps in the bushes and a herd was pushing its way through. There was a bull at the front who came towards me then wandered off to the Weir shallows. The Cows had a different idea, they went off their heads. The river was in flood and as I travelled light I pointed my landing net pole at their heads in the Torchlight and backed away towards the road bridge. Every couple of seconds they would bellow and charge me, the pole possibly looked like a Cattle prod and I did whack a few, it was really hairy. I went over the barbed wire fence by the road bridge backwards, they battered the fence. I was lucky, a local woman was killed not far away by a herd of Cows. A mate was butted straight into the Kennet. I was told by a local an EU Grant had come in that paid Farmers to keep calves with cattle, this made them super protective. Thirty years on there is now a fence running along the riverbank protecting anglers. I was fishing by the bush on the river the gaps in the bushes are still there across the field.
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I had a close encounter on the Ouse as well Mark, back in the late 90s. Not sure where it was but it was a stretch I hadn't fished before. I decided to walk a few stretches that day just as a sort of recce. When I got to the gate into the field I saw there was a herd of Jersey heifers over the far side. I wasn't concerned having been brought up on a farm, but I had a good look to make sure they were all female as Jersey bulls are in a league of their own when it comes to aggression. It looked Ok so I climbed the gate and walked to the end of the field, probably about 4 or 5 hundred yards. As expected, the herd came over to see what was going on and they walked with me to the end of the stretch, and also as I headed back to the gate. They were quiet enough and just seemed to be enjoying the walk as much as I was. It was then that I saw one of them had horns, and as I spotted it it turned towards me and had a ring in it's nose. Now I wasn't so relaxed, as clearly I hadn't done my bull search thoroughly enough. There was nothing to do but keep walking and I thought I could at least get in the river if it turned aggressive. Fortunately I made it back to the gate without incident, but did wonder why a dairy bull was running in a field with public/fishing club access, as the law is fairly clear on this. So I looked it up later that day. Apparently dairy bulls can run in any field up to two years old, I think it's two anyway. This was clearly a young bull with young heifers and most bulls turn aggressive, if they're going to, at the age of 5. In fact many farmers always move dairy bulls on at five for this very reason.I have posted this before on BFW and even though I spent Summer holidays on a family farm as a kid I was really shaken / lucky that night. I think being quickly aware of their mood change saved me.
Back in the early 90's I was fishing Turvey on the Great Ouse above the road bridge on a Rushden and Higham Ferrer ticket. I had never seen a cow or cow pat in the field before and had fished there a couple of years. 2am in the morning the Moon was very bright, something weird told me I was going to be charged by a Bull. Looking across the field behind me 100 +m away there were gaps in the bushes and a herd was pushing its way through. There was a bull at the front who came towards me then wandered off to the Weir shallows. The Cows had a different idea, they went off their heads. The river was in flood and as I travelled light I pointed my landing net pole at their heads in the Torchlight and backed away towards the road bridge. Every couple of seconds they would bellow and charge me, the pole possibly looked like a Cattle prod and I did whack a few, it was really hairy. I went over the barbed wire fence by the road bridge backwards, they battered the fence. I was lucky, a local woman was killed not far away by a herd of Cows. A mate was butted straight into the Kennet. I was told by a local an EU Grant had come in that paid Farmers to keep calves with cattle, this made them super protective. Thirty years on there is now a fence running along the riverbank protecting anglers. I was fishing by the bush on the river the gaps in the bushes are still there across the field.
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