02-12-2010, 05:04 AM
In Alabama once I got a nice fish from a creek. Finally pulled it up on the bank, it was a 3' copperhead.
When I was a kid we were in the Chesapeake and had a sack of frozen bull minnows for bait. I tied a noose around one and cast up and a seagull swallowed it. I let him fly 30 yards, hung on tight, and flipped the bail. It popped out of him when he did a somersault, and another one grabbed it before it hit the water. The process started over. But finally, I had to get back to catching flounder.
My dad's friend caught a pelican that trip, on a hook. We got him in the boat and tackled him and got the hook out. Strange bird, the pelican. His beak can hold more than his belly can. And I don't know how the hell he can.
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When I was a kid we were in the Chesapeake and had a sack of frozen bull minnows for bait. I tied a noose around one and cast up and a seagull swallowed it. I let him fly 30 yards, hung on tight, and flipped the bail. It popped out of him when he did a somersault, and another one grabbed it before it hit the water. The process started over. But finally, I had to get back to catching flounder.
My dad's friend caught a pelican that trip, on a hook. We got him in the boat and tackled him and got the hook out. Strange bird, the pelican. His beak can hold more than his belly can. And I don't know how the hell he can.
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