bird caught in fishing line pic

[Denlon]

Originally Posted by Rybazłapać

This doesn't sound that funny. Last time I went down to fish with my buddy at Newton Lake my buddy was soaking a bit of pork fat for catfish and a duck got clothes lined by his line. It sat on the water for a second looking disoriented then took off fine. That was pretty funny.

I bet it wasn't as funny as the day when my Dad hooked a sea plane flying by the Long Branch fishing pier in the middle 1950's. My dad had just cast out (using a conventional reel) when a coast guard sea plane with a cowboy pilot flew by the end of the pier, low enough and close enough that the loop in the line got hooked over one of the pontoons. The line went roaring off the reel until it burned my Dad's thumb and the reel back lashed and the line broke off.

I bet the pilot was surprised to see the sinker/hook/bait on the pontoon if it was still there when he landed.

Denny