So night fishing is a big part of modern carp fishing, but even if you are used to night fishing you can still get spooked by the slightest little thing, whether logical or not.
So who has experienced anything that that has totally spooked them while doing a night session?

Here is a story that happened to me years ago.

When I was a kid, my god father used to have a static caravan on a site near Bedford that the river Ouse used to run though.
Every school holidays he would take me and his son Dave, who is a couple of years older than me up there for weeks on end and we would spend our time fishing, shooting and snaring rabbits.

Anyway one night when I was around 11 or 12 me and Dave was fishing for eels on a very dark, warm, humid, still summer night, under a big old oak tree.
You know how it is with two young kids night fishing, we was telling ghost stories trying to scare the shit out of each other, when all of a sudden something started to crash though the tree, and a...