A bird stole my swimbait!

[Dirtyeggroll]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

What kind of bird was it ?

[jakkbauer]

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]

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]

1 hour ago, 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]

Herons love chasing frogs 

[lo n slo]

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]

Between the birds and gators it can be hard to fish a frog in pads at times. 

[Munkin]

Had an owl pick up my jitterbug and fly off once but luckily he didn't get the hooks.

 

Allen 

[TriStateBassin106]

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]

1 hour ago, 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]

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]

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]

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]

Having a bird ****** one out of the boat is crazy . Never heard of that happening until now .

 

the word was sn@tch

[Swamp Yankee]

11 minutes ago, 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]

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]

Yeah, when those type of birds are hungry, they are Relentless..

[Dirtyeggroll]

53 minutes ago, 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]

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.