Caught Two Different Seaguls This Morning

[Swimmer]

In the pouring rain that was coming sideways at times caught two different seaguls, one twice. The first one that I caught twice became hooked on its elly as it sat one the pencil. The first time it came off the hook relatively easy. It flew off a short distance to chase after other likely food sources when I noticed it flew right back at the pencil again I was retrieving. This time it got hooked more seriously although I didn't have to unhook it, it did so him/herself by violently shaking itself loose. This time though I fear it injured itself more seriously as it tried to fly after becoming unhooked and didn't seem to manage that well. It floated off towards the east end.

The second one actually took the treble in its mouth becoming hooked under the upper beak. Another hook penetrated the lower beak while I was doing surgery on the underside of the upper beak but that one came right out. I should say that I had no towel to throw over the gul's head, which I have done a ton of times before, so I had to drag in the bird and gently wedge its throat in between to rocks (guess where I was fishing) at which point I grabbed it throat further down and went to work. I took a step to my right and grabbed the pliers. I had to wrok a couple of minutes to get the hook out. What made it more difficul was the gul constantly trying to close its yap while I was doing surgery. So I fell back on my experience doing surgery on myself and just manned up. I grasp onto the the hook closer to the barb to give me more leverage and yanked the hook out of the guls' upper beak.

What a morning. Bigfish and I fished a solid four hours from 4 a.m.
As usual he had fish to show for his hard work and I had two seaguls to my credit.

I will say this, anyone who fished for the love of the sport this morning for four hours is a sportsman.