Wasp Nest Souvenir

[jtexas]

My favorite SHT happened when I was 19 (quite some time ago) on a small lake in north Louisiana. 14 ft aluminimum jonboat/6 horse evinrude. lots of cyprus trees on this lake, middle of the summer, good bass fishing and red wasp nests big as watermelons. My fishing partner wanted one so he took off his shirt and soaked it in gasoline, lit it and draped it over the nest. I couldn't believe it, but after the gas burned off he knocked it into the water with a paddle, shirt unharmed, wasps all dead and a new trophy for the living room (no wife at that time).<br /><br />We woulda really been in a pickle if it didn't work - fire in the boat (of course no extinguisher), pissed-off wasps around our heads and a lake full of water moccasins!<br /><br />Never would have survived that period of life it hadn't been for the well-known scientific fact that 19-year-old male humans are indestructible.<br /><br />jtw

 

[neumanns]

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Boy your right, with all the things that could have gone wrong. I'll bet them critters in the water wouldn't have seemed so bad had the whole hive swarmmed ya in your 6hp boat.

 

[rodbolt]

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hahahahah<br /> wow that brings back some memories. was fishing the chicasabo river just outside saraland Al and were watching some other young drunk and bored fisherman riding up the waspnests the size of pie playes and whacking them with a paddle and speeding off. one of the nests hit a limb and bounced back in the boat. man we laughed for hours at that sight. hahaha most people have never seen a 10-15 inch red wasp nest. we used to shoot them out of pecan trees with a 12 ga when I was a preteen. that was back when a 10 year old could go hunting outback by him self. call the old mutt and go hunting. no shoes no shirt and no worries<br /> Good luck and keep posting

 

[wikelam]

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never been stung, should have been a few hundred times growing up though. could not leave them alone when i was young.

 

[fishhunter911]

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when I was 9 years old I got the idea it would be fun to throw rocks at a hornets nest, well it fell out of the tree and I ran but not fast enough, 135 stings later i woke up in the hospital on a benydryl binge, spent a week in there, swelled up so much i looked like a pile of skin with no features, man those were the days hehehehe

 

[jtexas]

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Those red wasps will aggressively hang on and sting repeatedly once they get into 'attack mode'.<br /><br />We used to smoke those little swisher cigars while we fished - until after about the 10th time I burned through the line setting the hook.

 

[penguin]

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wasps.....oh yea, I almost forgot. About 10 years ago I was going to take my sister's boat out, it was a 1989 C hawk 25...Well it had been sitting for awhile and to make long story short, I was going about 15-20,mph. WHEN out of nowhere, I was UNDER ATTACK, ok I am on the BOAT...their nest is on the BOAT...now at this time they were working me to the stern of the boat. Well... you get the picture, in the water I went...OK no more wasps..yea, until I saw the boat power AWAY from me. now at this time im saying OH S&@#.. WELL as luck would have it, it ran out of gas about 50 yards away. I NEVER THOUGH I WOULD BE HAPPY TO HEAR A 350 CHEVY WITH THRU-HULL EXHAUST, STARVE FOR FUEL.

 

[coachmup]

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I have never had a problem with wasps but one night fishing in a cannoe I p****d off an owl. As we floated down a creek a screech owl sounded off several times. My buddy and I looked around trying to figure out where it was. I lit a cigarette and hear the flapping of wings. I look up to see the owl talons up coming at me. I threw my cigarette at it and fell to the bottom the cannoe as I felt the wings hit my back. It flew back into the trees and never made another sound. I waited quite some time before lighting up again.

 

[Dave Abrahamson]

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See how bad smoking can be for you??!

 

[mellowyellow]

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not boating related, but when i tore the old roof<br />off my front porch a few years back, I opened the<br />biggest hornet's nest i ever saw. dang lucky it<br />was the porch roof and I could jump for it

 

[JamesCoste]

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I remember fishing the Ochlockonee river in Tallahassee, Florida 2 years ago. I was learning to fly fish while drifting down the river in my 16' Kennedy Kraft. It was a great day until one of my back-casts wrapped around a dead tree limb from a tree that fell in the water probably 30 yards down-river.<br /><br />Normally, that's not a problem, just float down with the swift current and untie the line while hanging on to the branch.<br /><br />Problem was, there was a large red-wasp nest attached to the end of the limb. I tried to tighten the line and break it before getting near the tree. No luck -- as I would tighten the line and rear back to snap the line, the river current would provide enough slack in it for it to not pop, but aggravate the wasps as the line shook the branch violently.<br /><br />As the limb approached the stern of my boat, I panicked and lay down in the boat as it drifted, not near, but under that branch. It hovered just inches above my boat seat as I lay still and slowly floated by. Once I regained my composure, I let out plenty of line until I was 50 or more yards down river. Now, with the aid of the river current keeping the line tight, I was able to snap the line with one sudden jerk and I was off (down river).<br /><br />I've not been back to that same stretch of river and I'm very observant of where I'm casting.<br /><br />Hindsite, I should have just cut the backing and took off. It would have been the end of my fishing so I didn't. It was my only rod that day as I was primarily just boating and practicing casting.

 

[kerrybraswell]

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I had a nest of hornets built inside the knot hole of a large dead limb outside my second floor bedroom window a few years ago. One evening one of the hornets managed to get in the car when the dome light came on and proceeded to sting my wife on the face. I killed that hornet, but it made me so furious that i decided i would kill every _amned one of them one way or another. After a lot of thought i made my plan. We got a nice cool morning when the hornets were lethargic and i tossed a weighted cord over the limb and adjusted it until it hung right over the knot hole. I then tied on a new can of hornet and wasp killer spray and hoisted it until it was hanging right in front of the hole. Finally i went up to the second floor bedroom and opened the window. The knot hole in the limb was only about 20 feet away and facing the window perfectly. I got out my Benelli 12 gauge shotgun and installed my tightest choke tube and removed the plug. I loaded it to the max with #9 shot shells. I then took a good bead on the can of hornet killer spray and blew the can to smithereens right in the opening to the nest. I don't know how many hornets were killed by the initial shock wave of toxic chemical, but a large ball of hornets blasted out of the hole and started swarming the entrance looking for the attacker. They never suspected me, standing in the open window of the second floor bedroom and i started pumping those loads of #9's right into the swarm. Every time i fired into the ball of hornets, a wad of them would fall to the ground and more would rush out of the nest hole and replace them. I emptied the magazine and reloaded and let them have it again. Finally there were very few left flying and my shoulder was taking a beating so i decided to give it a rest and see how much damage i had inflicted. I walked out later that day to check the ground under the nest and it was littered with dead soldiers from the mornings battle. I saw a stragler flying into the nest every now and then and i assume it was hornets that might have been out of the nest when the war was waged. I assume the residual chemicals from the hornet spray must have killed them as well because the next day i couldn't see any hornets coming or going at all. The next year a family of squirrels moved into the hollow limb and have been there ever since. The funniest part of the whole thing is that i had just gotten married and my new wife didn't know what to think when i told her on the morning of the battle, not to be alarmed if she heard some shots coming from the upstairs bedroom. I warned her not to go outside for a while and i also set up my camcorder at the window so i could show her the revenge i inflicted on that nest of hornets just because of the sting that one hornet inflicted on her that night in the car. She was notably impressed and proceeded to tell all of her friends and family about my revenge for a long time after that. I gotta go get that tape now and relive the incident as writing this has made me want to watch those little buggers dying all over again! PS, We live way out in the country with no neighbors watching or i might have thought better of shooting the _ell out of my own trees! Later, Kerry

 

[RubberFrog]

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I gotta see this tape! Bad a$$ story!

 

[Ron G]

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LMAO i want to see it to.sounds like you got a little red on your neck too.

 

[jch7450]

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i'll bet he did

 

[kerrybraswell]

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I don't know how to put something like this video on the internet or i would post a link to it here. Kerry

 

[Gary H NC]

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I think photo bucket will let you...never tried myself... Great story!!

 

[michael-lagrange]

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Its a wonder that tree limb is still there,and as far as the wasp nest, the larvey is great bait but dont take the nest home-they can still hatch!

 

[Ripfence]

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One night I came home and noticed a large wasps' nest on the eve of the garage. I didn't have any bug spray so I grabbed what I thought was can of WD40 and a cigarette lighter. Usually I would spray the WD40 though the lighter and make a little "blow torch" and it wipes out the flying menaces. Unfortunatly, it was dark and I grabbed engine starter fluid which is mostly ether. The flames and heat that spewed forth out of that can made me think the gates of H ell had opened up. Except for some cinged hairs I was OK but I did have to clean up the eve a bit. I don't know where the wasps nest went.

 

[BoatBuoy]

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Ripfence, now that's rib-bustin' funny.