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creekcrappie
08-18-2013, 03:08 PM
Hey guys I fished yesterday at fate sanders marina and some ducks were chasing my buzzbait. When they did that I would slow it down so they would not get it, but one grabbed it and got hooked. I had to reel it in and yank the hook out. Did anyone have any similar experiences?

geckel
08-18-2013, 05:45 PM
Oh yes...the time honored tradition of duck fishing haha. No that probably is unusual. I've yet to catch a duck but hey that duck might taste better then any fish!

MNfisher
08-18-2013, 05:50 PM
that duck might taste better then any fish!

What kind of duck are you eating???

MNfisher
08-18-2013, 05:51 PM
Hey guys I fished yesterday at fate sanders marina and some ducks were chasing my buzzbait. When they did that I would slow it down so they would not get it, but one grabbed it and got hooked. I had to reel it in and yank the hook out. Did anyone have any similar experiences?

I used to have loons follow my musky baits under water, pretty cool!

geckel
08-18-2013, 06:26 PM
What kind of duck are you eating???

Peking duck

Brian37075
08-18-2013, 07:50 PM
Was fishing the steam plant a few years ago and a buddy accidentally hooked a vulture with a crank bait. It landed on the bank raising all kinds of cane trying to get loose. His vulture friends were already trying to eat him. Then the crank bait got shook loose and was free from that. But his vulture friends were giving him a rough time.

MNfisher
08-18-2013, 08:03 PM
Peking duck

Ok, I am used to the ducks I shoot! Not as good as fish!

tcintn
08-18-2013, 09:06 PM
One day while fishing on the river in Gatlinburg near the aquarium,I went to cast and just as I did a group of ducks flew by and one of them got it in a wing.The trout magnet and two pound test held and I reel the duck in and it never got rowdy and with my needle holders I got the barbless jig head out and off he went. The crowd up on the side walk gave me a cheer.

spottedbass
08-19-2013, 07:42 AM
I will admit it..I've caught a duck before, a blue heron and one night I caught a bat at Dale Hollow.

I've also caught a rod and reel below the dam at Center Hill.

ditz1
08-19-2013, 08:44 AM
Does a sea gull count? Sometime you can't can't keep them off your flies in FL.

MNfisher
08-19-2013, 09:08 AM
I've also caught a rod and reel below the dam at Center Hill.

I caught a rod and reel there Saturday. Them rods must be hittin down there!

jad2t
08-19-2013, 09:10 AM
I caught a rod and reel there Saturday. Them rods must be hittin down there!

I had no idea there would be rod and reels down there. I can only imagine the thousands of dollars worth of fishing lures below that dam... I know there's about $100 dollars of my gear stuck on rocks down there.

agelesssone
08-20-2013, 07:59 AM
I have to 'fess up to "duck fishing".

I caught this loon last year at Dale Hollow. It saw my shiner hit the water and dove down and caught it. I practiced good CPR (catch, photograph, release) and it went happily on it's way.

www.photobucket.com/user/agelesssone/media/LoonatDaleHollow_zpse461a6f7.jpg.html?filters (http://www.photobucket.com/user/agelesssone/media/LoonatDaleHollow_zpse461a6f7.jpg.html?filters)

creekcrappie
08-20-2013, 08:50 AM
I have to 'fess up to "duck fishing".

I caught this loon last year at Dale Hollow. It saw my shiner hit the water and dove down and caught it. I practiced good CPR (catch, photograph, release) and it went happily on it's way.

www.photobucket.com/user/agelesssone/media/LoonatDaleHollow_zpse461a6f7.jpg.html?filters (http://www.photobucket.com/user/agelesssone/media/LoonatDaleHollow_zpse461a6f7.jpg.html?filters)

Well, it's better than catching nothing!

Transplanted Sportsman
08-20-2013, 06:52 PM
I caught a rod and reel there Saturday. Them rods must be hittin down there!
Was this a keeper???, growing up back home I was about 8 I caught a dang Mexican coot looks a lot like a regular coot but bigger, man I thought I had hooked up with Goliath until it reached the bank, after the disappointment wore out I spent the next 20 minutes trying to pry the hooks of my one and only rapala lure out of his leg, he was hissing and trying to peck me and every time he would lunge I would jump back, my Dad was rolling on the ground laughing his tail off watching the whole thing !! pretty dang funny now, not too much back then!

navydocivan
08-21-2013, 12:31 AM
I caught a Damn snake on a topwater popper, when fishing from kayak a couple years ago, No Darn way was I gonna let it in the yak with me.. I just cut the line. With my luck it was a dang cotton mouth.

tacklemake
08-21-2013, 07:55 PM
I was live lining for rock fish when a gull hit the water and had my bait. So I pulled trying to get the bait away and I hook the gull under its beak and the bait was hanging down. There must a been ten other gulls diving on that gull trying to get that bait that was hanging down under that gull. Here I'm trying to crack him in and another gull grabs the bait and roils that gull upside down while I'm trying to get him in. It took about 30 minutes to get that gull in so I could unhook it and let it go, I will have to say it was the funniest thing I have ever seen.............woody