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Post by youp50 on May 27, 2017 14:13:17 GMT -5
My Mrs and I were enjoying the calm seas and the shoreline scenery as we search for our piscatorial adversaries. We were trolling along the shallows near the eagles nest in "A Couple of Birds" post. We noted the female was perched above the nest and assume the eaglets are hatched. I turned towards the front of the boat and a reel started to scream as line was rapidly departing the spool. We were in water quite shallow and I had hoped we hooked another 'Queen' salmon. Its what I call a very large Chinook (King) Salmon. Except the line was a steady pull out, not the surging pull of a fish. Gotta be a big one. On turning back to attend the reel, the line was about 15 feet out of the water and gaining altitude. Ma had decided to feed the littlers, my 15 dollar bait. I applied pressure, she didn't slow down. Line parted and I now have another chapter in the 'Most Unique Ways to Lose Lures'
And I even had a witness. Go figure
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Post by aDave on May 27, 2017 14:43:11 GMT -5
Similar thing happened to me years ago, on one of the rare salt water fishing ventures I went on.
Was on a boat with yellowtail being the target. Basically, you baited with live fish and let let the bait swim along with the reel free-spooling. There is no other weight on the line. All of a sudden, line began to rapidly pay out, so I let it run a bit before engaging the reel to set the hook. When I did, what I found was not a fish on the end of the line, but a seagull who had snatched the bait.
I ultimately reeled the bird in, and a deckhand grabbed it. It was, to a degree, almost like flying a kite. Turned out the hook had managed to go through the upper and lower parts of the beak, effectively making it impossible for the bird to open its mouth. Hook was cut and removed, and bird was let go. Sure wish it had been a yellowtail instead.
Dave
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Post by rockjunquie on May 27, 2017 16:03:49 GMT -5
Ahhhh...... fishing. Done a lot of fishing myself. I think the weirdest thing I ever did was when I went surf fishing at Back Bay here on the VA coast. It was a pretty windy day with lots of surf. I had about 3 oz of weight on my big ole surf caster. I flung it out there as hard as I could. Beautiful cast! I had my eyes pealed on the horizon for the distance, but all I could see was this pelican flying low above the water. Then he wasn't. My weight hit the poor thing! He went straight into the water. I held my breath and tears actually welled up as I was thinking I killed this bird. Finally, after what seemed like forever, he managed to get himself up. He was hella dazed, but ok. At east, I like to think he was ok. Then there was the time I was fishing under a bridge. I just got a new rod and reel for mother's day. I was used to my bigger rig for surf casting. I got ready to put the line out just past this wicked current when I cut loose wrong and the friggin' weight ended up on top of the bridge!!!! Yes, it was pretty high up there. Went over the guardrail, too. All I could think was I hope I didn't hit a car. It was a very busy bridge. I ducked under the pylon and waited to see if someone was gonna come down with a cracked windshield. A golfer put ours out once while we driving down the road, he had to pay for it. I sure didn't want to have to do that. But, no one came down- Thank goodness. Done a lot of pier fishing on NAS Pensacola. FABULOUS fishing- if you could keep your line away from the birds. My son was real young. He had his little zebco snoopy rod and reel that he used to catch bait with for us. As soon as we dropped a line, the birds, don't know what kind, would dive in after it. They caught plenty of free meals! I hooked a few, but never brought one up. I was fishing in Maine one time when a big ass something took my line and went under our little dingy. I was a kid. I struggled real hard with it for awhile and then I noticed that the line was still. I couldn't bring it up, though. Somehow, the fish got off. I surmise that with the pressure on the line, it snapped back and stuck in the bottom of our little wooden boat. I was so excited thinking I had caught a big fish, too. For the rest of the day, I just watched the sea otters play. (Yes, they have sea otters up there.) OK- too many stories to tell. I'm done.
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Post by aDave on May 27, 2017 18:05:10 GMT -5
Ahhh...the ole Zebco. That brings back memories. I never had one, but the kid siblings did - back then I think they were just the plain black ones; no Snoopy. We trout fished in the Sierra Nevadas, and the big deal back then (at least for me) was to "graduate" from a spin casting reel to a spinning reel. Haven't fished in about 4-5 years, but our last trip was a driftboat venture where we fly fished 10 miles of the Sacramento River. Never had so much fun, and we caught lots of native trout that day. If we end up relocating out of CA in the future, that's one outdoor activity I'd like to pick up again.
Dave
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Post by captbob on May 27, 2017 18:58:22 GMT -5
So did mama bird get hooked on, or ingest, a lure with x number of yards of fishing line still attached to it, or am I misunderstanding the story?
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Post by MrMike on May 27, 2017 18:59:50 GMT -5
Got many fishing stories also. Once while carp fishing caught a coot. Damn things would swim down & eat your bait of the bottom. Got it reeled in, was holding it tight against me getting the hook out & it shit all over me. Another time had a 30+ striped bass on using live gizzard shad with a large treble hook. While fighting the fish it came to the surface, the hook came out & shot back at me like a bullet. One of the hooks went straight into my nose. Ended up at the hospital to get that one out.
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Post by aDave on May 27, 2017 19:13:43 GMT -5
So did mama bird get hooked on, or ingest, a lure with x number of yards of fishing line still attached to it, or am I misunderstanding the story? Whose story...the OP? You're right; it's not clear. But I'd hate to think there's an eagle out there somewhere that has dozens, if not hundreds of feet of fishing line attached. Dave
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Post by coloradocliff on May 27, 2017 19:24:58 GMT -5
Owned a really nice big, crystal clear trout stream in a mountain valley in Colorado. Totally private, was very large because the water was kept at a high and steady rate by being the first land below Vega Reservoir and many irrigation diversions below. In the spring the spillway would top over and really huge fish would come out of the dam and restock my 2 miles with a lot of really big fish in addition to the regular population. One evening fly fishing hooked up about a 12 inch rainbow and was slowly playing him in on the light line. Then apparent to me he must have gotten the line under a rock. Waded carefully through the fast moving water to free my line and release the hook. Then it seemed like he was free but must have gotten wrapped around a branch, Getting closer to the end of the leader I saw the fish's head, then next I saw a large German Brown trout about 12 pounds plus, with his mouth completely around my smaller fish, all the way to his gills. Oh crap.. Carefully reached down with the intent of grabbing the big one but his eyes met mine and reluctantly he released his prize back to me and slid back into the water. The big brown must have thought that the trout he at first thought was an easy meal was the hardest fight of his fishy life.
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Post by youp50 on May 28, 2017 6:17:26 GMT -5
So did mama bird get hooked on, or ingest, a lure with x number of yards of fishing line still attached to it, or am I misunderstanding the story? Whose story...the OP? You're right; it's not clear. But I'd hate to think there's an eagle out there somewhere that has dozens, if not hundreds of feet of fishing line attached. Dave No chance she would ingest the bait. They grab with their feet. About 12 feet of line went with the lure. We watched and both eagles appeared to be flying and perching normally. I am troubled by her decision. I do not know if she will suffer for it or not. The line is relatively light, 10 pound test. I have mentally pigeon holed it in the category of 'Interesting events that I have witnessed, but cannot change the outcome'
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Post by Fossilman on May 28, 2017 8:23:02 GMT -5
I did that with a pelican once,we did minor surgery on it to remove the hook (while it beat the shit out of us)...LOL
Great story youp50.........
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Post by vera on May 28, 2017 17:21:33 GMT -5
I think most people who fish have at least one story of an unusual catch - or not. It is one of my favorite activities during the summer.
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Post by morerockspleaz on May 28, 2017 17:45:16 GMT -5
I love to fish. Do a lot of lake and pond fishing. My funniest fish story is I was bank fishing on about a 20 acre lake. Bank was pretty level but it dropped at the water line. I was standing there with rod in hand and watching perch hit the water for bugs, my cork started moving, going under so I set the hook. Next thing I knew the fish jerked me off the bank into the water. It was kinda cold. I never let go of my rod and reel just stood up and stepped back to the bank. I lost the fish, broke my line. But I stood there and laughed about it. It was quite a shock at the moment.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2017 19:56:35 GMT -5
To hold a pelican you have to control the bill and fold the wings against the body, then hold the bird like a football, bill in hand. Had to do this on an oil rescue job once and also on a fishing trip out of Ventura probably with aDave onboard. All we caught all day was birds. I stopped fishing and started handling the birds because the jackass deckhands were scared of them Just cutting the line leaving the hooks in the bird. fossilman
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Post by aDave on May 28, 2017 20:03:39 GMT -5
To hold a pelican you have to control the bill and fold the wings against the body, then hold the bird like a football, bill in hand. Had to do this on an oil rescue job once and also on a fishing trip out of Ventura probably with aDave onboard. All we caught all day was birds. I stopped fishing and started handling the birds because the jackass deckhands were scared of them Just cutting the line leaving the hooks in the bird. fossilman @shotgunner Scott, my trip was actually out of the 22nd street landing in San Pedro. Sounds like you and I had the same problem, as the birds have figured out where to feed - in relation to the party boats.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2017 20:25:56 GMT -5
To hold a pelican you have to control the bill and fold the wings against the body, then hold the bird like a football, bill in hand. Had to do this on an oil rescue job once and also on a fishing trip out of Ventura probably with aDave onboard. All we caught all day was birds. I stopped fishing and started handling the birds because the jackass deckhands were scared of them Just cutting the line leaving the hooks in the bird. fossilman @shotgunner Scott, my trip was actually out of the 22nd street landing in San Pedro. Sounds like you and I had the same problem, as the birds have figured out where to feed - in relation to the party boats. On my day, the sea was dead. No fish biting at all and the birds starving.
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