Catching a duck?
 

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?

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!

What kind of duck are you eating???

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

Peking duck

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.

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

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.

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.

Does a sea gull count? Sometime you can't can't keep them off your flies in FL.

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.

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.

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Well, it's better than catching nothing!

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!