Last year a friend was fishing live herring with me at the ditch. Well he flips the bait out and a gull grabs it right before it hits the water. He looks over at me in bewilderment and says " Dave , what do I do now?" I had him reel the bird in till it landed on the rocks. The bird was standing with his wings flared and hissing at us menacingly. I could see the hook caught on his beak and knew if I just cut the line that it would probably die. I had Kevin hold the line taunt and I came up behind the gull and grabbed it by the neck ( They have really skinny necks) . I removed the hook and now the next problem, now what do I do. I turned towards the water and while holding his neck rather tightly with one hand I grabbed it by the butt ( all the time hoping it wouldn't bite me or worse crap on my other hand) and flipped it up in the air. The gull caught flight in mid toss and flew away . The funny thing was that as it flew away it kept looking back at us. Kevin just looked at me shaking his head.
Then someone tells me that all ya have to do is throw a coat over the bird and it will quiet right down. No thanks I ain't reaching under a coat at a mad gull
