Wrestling egrets and other mishaps

[Swimmer]

Originally Posted by Bronko

Wait! I wasn't the guy who didn't answer a call for help, thats not my style. From the sounds of it, I was 20 poles away. However, I could make out the sounds of what sounded like a mass murder and commented someone must have hooked a bird!
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At the end of the ???? there were two guys fishing about 100 feet apart. The furthest one away had a large fish on and lost it a short while before the bird incident. Pole #0000 the two guys rode off about 5:30 a m
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[nightfighter]

I have had my history with birds as well.... Here's one from 2007.
http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripert...hlight=spooled

Frank, be sure to keep that wound clean. Get some betadine solution. It's the brown soap they use in the ER.

[Rockfish9]

I've never hooked an egret or a great blue herron.. both are in close proximity to where i fish ....I spook them often as they fish the shallows as i drift bye.. the sqwaking always scares the crap out of me... I did set back on a fox once the pounced on an eel I had tossed onto the sand during an extra long cast just above the water line ..he/she must have been hunting plover chicks.. I never saw it until it pounced... when I "set the hook" trying to get my eel back before it bolted down it's intended meal the damn thing must have jumped 5' in the air... the fox got the eel.. I got my hook back..it ended well...

glad you and the bird are no worse for wear...and just a tad wiser...

[Steve K]

I have only had the pleasure of catching seagulls. You are lucky that you did not have an audience. There is nothing worse than the non-fisherman who thinks you are going to kill it like the lady Raven met. I bet more birds are caught at the canal than any place else.