A bird stole my swimbait! 2025
Dirtyeggroll reply :
I had an original custom painted DEPS 250 sitting on the back deck of my boat today when a bird swept in, landed on my back deck and picked it up and flew off and then proceeded to drop it in the middle of the lake about 100 yards away. I went over where it was dropped and searched and netted for about a half hour and then gave up.
I guess it looked realistic. I still can’t believe it.
Dens228 reply :
Ha, two seasons ago I was doing pretty good with a popper and had to stop using it because the d**n birds kept swooping down and trying to get the lure......
Hammer 4 reply :
A few years ago, I was fishing a trout 3:16 wake bait..and this one Osprey kept trying to dive bomb it. At 150.00 I wasn't about to let that bird grab it. I switched to a sub surface trout swimbait, and guess what, the Osprey came after it too..I love predatory birds, but I was getting kinda mad at that bird. We just moved on.
Bird reply :
That's crazy. Lol
Opens the door for this.......I over casted a private dock and caught a dog, seriously.
Snagged the top of dock with a Rapala jerk bait and dog came running and grabbed it , hooking it's mouth.
My friend was laughing so hard as I said, GET ME OVER THERE ! Drag screaming.
I hugged the dog and was able to free the bait without injury.
Koz reply :
I had a Red Tailed Hawk grab a Whopper Plopper 130 while I was reeling it in. Luckily he did not get hooked and dropped it when he felt the tension on the line.
Bluebasser86 reply :
I had a blue heron kill a soft swimbait I was waking against a shoreline. Never saw the sucker until it was too late. He stabbed at my bait and cut it dang near in half. I've also caught a seagull on a shad, owl on a jitterbug, blue heron on a bladed jig, and grebe on a jerkbait.
scaleface reply :
What kind of bird was it ?
jakkbauer reply :
i caught a heron before on a mepps... it was terribly embarrassing him flying around with my drag screaming landing across the river... i had to just break it off once he was in a safe spot it was all i could do
Fried Lemons reply :
Had a blue heron dive bomb a soft swimbait multiple times. I would walk 50 yards to try and get away but the bird kept following me. He got within 10ft of me to try and ****** it at the end of the cast. He was not afraid of me at all.
Dirtyeggroll reply :
On 10/30/2019 at 7:07 PM, scaleface said:What kind of bird was it ?
I am not sure. I don’t know my birds well. There were a few of them on the lake and I thought they were ducks at first because they were floating around on the surface and occasionally diving under not to be seen again.
This lake had recently been stocked with trout so I can only guess this guy thought he had found an easy one.
slonezp reply :
Herons love chasing frogs
lo n slo reply :
a water snake got after my tiny torpedo (hold your laughter) one time. the faster i reeled, the faster he swam after it, til i dropped my rod and ran up the bank. the end. ????
GReb reply :
Between the birds and gators it can be hard to fish a frog in pads at times.
Munkin reply :
Had an owl pick up my jitterbug and fly off once but luckily he didn't get the hooks.
Allen
TriStateBassin106 reply :
Every summer in august I go Fishing for Blues and Strippers down in Delaware and we fish the beach in the mornings, and one day I was in the surf casting a spook into the small waves and a Seagull picked it up and dropped it about 100 feet out into the middle of a blitz. Let's just say that I had a very productive day...
islandbass reply :
On 10/30/2019 at 9:44 PM, lo n slo said:a water snake got after my tiny torpedo (hold your laughter) one time. the faster i reeled, the faster he swam after it, til i dropped my rod and ran up the bank. the end. ????
I almost spit my coffee out laughing. I was picturing it as I read it, thinking I would have thought the same thing about reeling it back fast to get it away from the snake and not realizing that my action only brought it closer to me.
scaleface reply :
Last summer cousin and I were throwing buzzbaits at night when we heard all kings of commotion in the water . I hit it with a flashlight and there was a raccoon swimming after his lure .
JediAmoeba reply :
I have caught a Beaver, turtles, snakes, a muskrat, a merganzer, a seagull, a hawk and a bat.
The bat was dead because when casting i whacked it with a large muskie sized jitterbug and the hook went through it's eye. I had a Bald Eagle come crashing down trying to get my huddleston this summer but I was able to jerk it out of the way.
Swamp Yankee reply :
Fly fishing dry flies at sunset on a trout stream in the woods one evening around sunset I hooked a bat on the back cast. I cut the leader at let the bat figure it out. Nine feet is close enough to get to a bat, tyvm. Seemed like a good time to stop fishing anyway.
scaleface reply :
Having a bird ****** one out of the boat is crazy . Never heard of that happening until now .
the word was sn@tch
Swamp Yankee reply :
On 10/31/2019 at 3:34 AM, scaleface said:Having a bird ****** one out of the boat is crazy . Never heard of that happening until now .
the word was sn@tch
I used to post on a forum that would bleep out part of the word "saltwater"
schplurg reply :
Forget the bird.... $150 for a swimbait? That's the crazy part!
Someone probably trained it to steal expensive baits. Was it a Dodo bird?
A bird stole a perch right after my friend threw it back in the surf a few months ago. Got that on video, but the fish was real (and free).
Hammer 4 reply :
Yeah, when those type of birds are hungry, they are Relentless..
Dirtyeggroll reply :
On 10/31/2019 at 5:37 AM, schplurg said:Forget the bird.... $150 for a swimbait? That's the crazy part!
Someone probably trained it to steal expensive baits. Was it a Dodo bird?
A bird stole a perch right after my friend threw it back in the surf a few months ago. Got that on video, but the fish was real (and free).
I wish it was a $150 swimbait ????
Elkins45 reply :
I caught a baby gator on a floating worm, but the craziest was a raccoon. I overcast and my plastic worm landed on the pebbles. A big raccoon jumped out of the weeds and grabbed it but fortunately it grabbed the tail and not the hook.
Log Catcher reply :
On 10/30/2019 at 9:44 PM, lo n slo said:a water snake got after my tiny torpedo (hold your laughter) one time. the faster i reeled, the faster he swam after it, til i dropped my rod and ran up the bank. the end. ????
You are lucky since you didn't catch it. I did catch one several years ago. If I told the whole story nobody would believe it.
Sam reply :
Fishing the Historic James River above Osborne Landing and not getting many bites when an Osprey flew directly into the river about 25 feet away from me and grabbed a largemouth bass and took off.
Yes, I was angry at first and then started to laugh when I though how great Mother Nature can be for all of her animals.
So far I have never hooked any bird as I try to avoid them. A hooked bird can be a brutal adversary.
Yeajray231 reply :
On 10/31/2019 at 7:47 AM, Log Catcher said:You are lucky since you didn't catch it. I did catch one several years ago. If I told the whole story nobody would believe it.
Do tell
WRB reply :
On 10/30/2019 at 6:59 AM, Dirtyeggroll said:I had an original custom painted DEPS 250 sitting on the back deck of my boat today when a bird swept in, landed on my back deck and picked it up and flew off and then proceeded to drop it in the middle of the lake about 100 yards away. I went over where it was dropped and searched and netted for about a half hour and then gave up.
I guess it looked realistic. I still can’t believe it.
The birds I can think of that could land on your boat deck and carry off a swimbait are Hawks, Eagles and Osprey's. The likely culprit is a Osprey, they tend to graph swimbaits in mid air when casting, never had any bird land in my boat while fishing. A Gull is the only bird bold enough to land on a boat with people.
Tom
Hewhospeaksmuchbull reply :
Guess I'll have to take along a shotgun to protect my swimbaits. Some of them cost more than my shotgun.
plawren53202 reply :
I've had more than one frog hit a plastic worm. This summer was a first, I had a frog hit...a frog. Dang cannibals.
This summer, I also caught a cottonmouth bank fishing. Thought my worm was stuck in the grass at the edge of the water, was bending down to see as the rod finally lifted up to reveal a 3 foot long or so cottonmouth hanging on the end. My son said he'd never seen someone jump backwards and up so fast.
scaleface reply :
On 11/16/2019 at 5:03 AM, WRB said:A Gull is the only bird bold enough to land on a boat with people.
Tom
A Great Blue Heron landed in my boat .
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