Feathered Friends

Mrdorkfish · 02-08-2001, 12:01 PM

I fished the Sandy this morning with RyanFish and Steve....I wasn't paying attentin to my pole like usual and got a little bite....It was nothing so we went on bullsh**ing then Steve notified me of another thing going on around my pole....HEATHCLIFF!!! (local seagull/thief) I had my containter of Sandshrimp laying next to my pole holder and the protected feathered friend decided to stab it and fly off to the gravel bar across the river and have his way with it!

Made me mad at first but yes it was pretty funny

Has anyone else had anything like this happen to them?

Mrdorkfish

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Salmonator · 02-08-2001, 12:03 PM

had a seagull fly off with a skein of eggs while cleaning fish at the Salmon River boat ramp!

SLEDDER · 02-08-2001, 12:35 PM

Caught a bat on the backcast with a flyrod. Fun fighting!!

THE REEL HEY_YALL · 02-08-2001, 02:06 PM

When I was fishing in the Grady-White tourney for blackmouth back in November, a seagull swiped my buddies herring 4 times while trying to get the pulls out to set up the downriggers.

RichH · 02-08-2001, 03:28 PM

Once while trolling herring out off the south jetty in Tillamook I had a couple of twitches on the rod in about 40 feet of water. Never got serious so I left it in the rod holder. After about 5 minutes it looked like I'd picked up some seaweed so I reeled it up and had one very dead duck.

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rob · 02-08-2001, 05:06 PM

Last summer on the sky my buddy hooked a canada goose in mid flight. After a good fight the hook came loose.

Buds_4 · 02-08-2001, 05:14 PM

About 15 years ago I hooked and nearly landed a 20+ lb. river otter on the upper Clackamas, just below Indian Henry camp. Drifting eggs for late summers. Nearly had forgotten about that. Thanks for bringing up this thread.

Salmonator · 02-08-2001, 05:28 PM

Flying river otters?? Now that's scary...

Pete · 02-08-2001, 06:48 PM

I was trolling TBay a number of years ago ... herring for kings ... my buddy kept telling me, "keep your gear on the bottom". My line started trailing a little more than it had been, so I reeled up. I pulled in a baseball sized clam. Lively fight.

Artwo · 02-09-2001, 08:50 AM

While trout fishing on the upper Mckenzie (sp) at Carmen resivouor (sp again) some years back we were bank fishing off the bridge at the inlet with all the kids. My buddy hooks a nice little stocker and while reeling it in it comes to the surface and a Osprey splashes down and nabs it. Really interesting fight until the line broke, the split shot came wizzing back and hit me in the shoulder......felt like I'ld been shot.

JK

Drifty · 02-09-2001, 01:27 PM

I snaged a nutria in the back with a rapala one day while bass fishing in my float tube. It scared the hell out of me when I thought it was going to climb in the tube with me. Ugly creatures up close. All the while my dad is about falling in the water he was laughing so hard.

Predator Dawg · 02-09-2001, 01:34 PM

Letting down the downrigger at Posession one day a few years back I had a Gull grab my herring right as the weight of the rigger ball took it down. That Gull went down forty feet before I could get him back to the surface. Unhooked him, watched him swim around like he had been drinking to much booze for 20 minutes, then he took flight and left.

Artwo · 02-09-2001, 01:36 PM

Drifty,
Your lucky you didn't get bit. I have friends down in the valley that are grass seed farmers and I help out on their farms allot. I've had many run ins with our little fur bearing creature the nutria. They can be real nasty, been chased by them many times, specially around breeding/reering time. We all carry back-up in the trucks to deal with them.

JK

garyk · 02-09-2001, 01:45 PM

On the Deschutes, I hooked, played and carefully released a nighthawk one evening. Done the same with a couple bats. ON the Metolius I've landed Bull Trout that nailed the whitefish or trout I originally had on.

And Drifty, you're lucky that Nutria didn't climb aboard with you. My 95# Wirehair Pointer now has four drain tubes in his chest, as he recovers from his latest tangle with the chiseltooth nutria, (yeah, my dogs messed up - but ya oughta see the other guy).

winterkill · 02-09-2001, 02:39 PM

Once on the east coast I caught a pelican, which put up a great fight until I cut the line.

Once when I was hunting I found a nutria hole, with some marijuana plants pulled down it. Turns out the nutria found some plants out there and decided he liked the 'taste' and brought them home. They were sticking out of the hole with leaves everywhere.

Fishplay · 02-09-2001, 03:28 PM

Over the years i've caught many a featherd friend. My first catch was when I was around 12 years old; I caught a robin on an unatended trout rod. It was quite a surprise when I returned to my abandoned rod to find a bird attached. Best kite I ever flew!

Number two came when fishing shrimp flies for humpies. This is a ball if you've never done it. The boat speed got a little too fast and my fly was close enough to the surface that a gull nabbed it. It put up a pretty good fight He,He, He.
Number three was at the bubble at T-bay. A commerant dove and took the whole herring I was trolling. It turned out to be the only bite that day. Any excitement is better than no excitement!

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FISH!........GET IN THE BOAT!!!!!

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Grant Scheele · 02-10-2001, 06:34 PM

I had a friend that was so frustrated at pesky sea gulls he picked up a rock and threw it at a sea gull. From 30 feet away he hit it in the head and killed it deader than a door nail. Don't know what was more surprised, the gull or us.

Pirate · 02-10-2001, 09:09 PM

Revenge is sweet somtimes....
I learned this fun trick while in Canada. With a couple of herring left over at the end of a day, don't just throw them away attracting dozens of unwanter gulls.....have some fun. Take your fillet knife and puncture a small hole in each of 2 herring. Take a foot or so of light mono and tie it through the holes in the herring, so they are attached about a foot apart. Wave them in the air as to get the gulls attention and then throw them out. Gull #1 grabs the first herring and flys away trailing the second herring a foot behind and no less than a dozen crazed gulls in hot pursuit of the flying herring. Gull #2 grabs trailing herring in mid air, pulling it from the gullet of gull #1 and the process repeats over and over. You can still have some fun at the end of the day even if the fishing has not been as good as you hoped. It is a riot.

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Navigator · 02-10-2001, 09:40 PM

Hooked a beaver. Hare's Ear, about a size 10. Broke off before I could turn it.

Raptorwill · 02-11-2001, 08:11 AM

hooked a seal after he decided to eat my 13-14 # blackmouth in the middle of the fight--wasnt about to lose my gear so kept the boat on top of him for about 20 min---when he finally took a good run and sufaced about 20 yards off of port he was outa air and my trailer hook finally broke ---that 14 # fire wire is some strong stuff--he left and didnt follow us any more after that