I can't believe it

On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:01:54 GMT, "Rudy" <NoSpam.DeleteThis@no-onehome.net>
wrote:

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>Rainbows 1- 2 ft and Kokanee around 12-16" Vic but there a hundred or so
>smaller lakes up in the mountains an hour or 3's drive away where the
>fishing is a lot better. We don't really have those "Eastern" fish ( pike
>perch bass specks etc) west of the Rockies here. Pretty well just trout:
>rainbows, some Eastern ? Brook trout, Kokanee and Dolly Varden where we go
>fishin'. On one lake where a friend has a log home, its not so much a
>challenge to hook a nice big rainbow but to get it into the boat before a
>Loon http://www.ns.ec.gc.ca/wildlife/loons/ swims under the boat and steals
>it off your line ! (
>
Sounds great. Don't think I ever ate trout, but heard they are good.
Never knew loons did that, but makes perfect sense.
I've had gulls go after my minnow when I cast it, but they always
missed. My uncle actually had a ten minute tussle with a gull that
hooked itself when he cast a minnow. Heard that story often enough.
There was the occasional loon where I fished as a kid, and I enjoyed
hearing them early in the morning. Don't think they were as pretty as
the one in the link, and I think my gramps called them mud ducks, but
I might be wrong. Never saw one up close, as they stayed way off from
the boat.
Last year there was some type of bird that was doing the loon
reappearing act off the Sunshine Skyway fishing pier where I was
fishing. First time I saw that there. Maybe there's a salt water
version. Looked like the loons I'd seen in fresh water.
The pelicans on the Skyway piers have a habit of flying low by the
pier and snagging themselves on fishing lines. Saw a guy struggling
to free one that had snagged his line and he had reeled in.
It was tangled mess, and had the hook in it, but he said he would
handle it and I moved on. I got the impression it wasn't the first he
snagged.
Couple times they winged my line but thankfully got loose.
One settled down in the water with my line around a wing and as I
tightened it a bit he freed himself and took off. That was a relief.
Those are big birds with hard beaks.
They actually have a few signs on the pier now showing you what to do
if you pull one in.

--Vic
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