TritonGlenn
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Took out two friends today and headed to Choke Canyon. We had been fishing topwater for a while this morning, with a small amount of success.
We pull up to a spot and make a few casts, and my buddy in the middle of the boat casts out his topwater popper by a tree. I hear my friend in the back of the boat warn him "Hey, that bird is about to get your lure". My buddy in the middle replies "Naw, he won't..." (and at that moment, the bird grabs the lure and tries to fly off with it.
As we are all looking at each other, trying to figure out what we are going to do now, my friend is holding his rod in the air, looking like he is flying a bird shaped kite. He reeled the bird in gently, and just as he got it to the boat, the bird tried to kick the lure out of his mouth with his foot. Wrong move. Now his foot is hooked too, and connected to his beak. He drops like a rock to the water, and my two friends retrieve him into the boat, as I try to maintain boat position off the submerged timber is excessive winds. My friend from the back comes up behind the bird and grabs it by the back, as the friend that caught it gently removes the hooks - first from the birds foot, and then, as the second friend is helping by holding the head firmly - the beak. Neither hook was past the barb, so they came out relatively easy, and I don't think the bird was harmed at all. The second friend walked to the back of the boat with the bird, and tossed him into the air. You know that stupid thing just hung around us, flying behind the boat about 10 feet in the air for a little while.
Anyone else ever have this happen?
All the best,
Glenn
We pull up to a spot and make a few casts, and my buddy in the middle of the boat casts out his topwater popper by a tree. I hear my friend in the back of the boat warn him "Hey, that bird is about to get your lure". My buddy in the middle replies "Naw, he won't..." (and at that moment, the bird grabs the lure and tries to fly off with it.
As we are all looking at each other, trying to figure out what we are going to do now, my friend is holding his rod in the air, looking like he is flying a bird shaped kite. He reeled the bird in gently, and just as he got it to the boat, the bird tried to kick the lure out of his mouth with his foot. Wrong move. Now his foot is hooked too, and connected to his beak. He drops like a rock to the water, and my two friends retrieve him into the boat, as I try to maintain boat position off the submerged timber is excessive winds. My friend from the back comes up behind the bird and grabs it by the back, as the friend that caught it gently removes the hooks - first from the birds foot, and then, as the second friend is helping by holding the head firmly - the beak. Neither hook was past the barb, so they came out relatively easy, and I don't think the bird was harmed at all. The second friend walked to the back of the boat with the bird, and tossed him into the air. You know that stupid thing just hung around us, flying behind the boat about 10 feet in the air for a little while.
Anyone else ever have this happen?
All the best,
Glenn