Danged furriners!...........

[Wayne in BC]

My buddy was fishing the other day, after catching a bottomfish and getting it to the surface, this strange "Yankee" bird came to take his fish but missed and tangled the lure around one talon!
After a mighty battle the Canadian guy triumphed, removed the hook and sent that bad boy home! He said that the bird kept threatening to tell the "King" or sumptin on him, i told him i reckoned the bird meant "Royal"
All kidding aside, the Eagle was fine and left with only some of his dignity ruffled and wet feathers, he sat on the back of the boat for a while quite calmly drying off.
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In this pic you can see the lure that tangled around his talon, my buddy reached out with a sidecutter (very carefully cause that "Yankee" bird was very Poed) and cut it off successfully.
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[Wayne in BC]

all 2500 kbs! I had to resize these to post, so they lost a lot of resolution.

 

[Micheal_R]

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[WillyP]

No wonder he didn't feel too threatened, He's huge!

 

[Ron J]

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[Royal]

on a light rod and I had my hands full for a while.

Lets see all the pics you have of the event. I love the pic's

 

[VT Dave]

but did ya get the fish?

 

[david(tx)]

wonder if they become so focused on the prey the block everything else out,greyhounds do that.my granddad said when he was a young man he had a pair of greyhounnds and that one time one ran a rabbit and ran right into a wire fence and cut itself up.nice pics wayne.

 

[Wayne in BC]

Right at the entrance to Bamfield harbor Mike. He had caught a quillback. We often have the eagles hanging around because folks "donate" the small rockfish to them

 

[Wayne in BC]

in the area. The Eagles are accustomed to being given small unwanted fish.
I also had Greyhounds which i hunted Coyotes with, your right, they are strictly sight hunters and sometimes got into trouble when the Coyote ducked under a fence.

 

[Wayne in BC]

these small "Rockfish" are caught very deep, often over 100 feet down. When they are brought up they decompress rapidly and kinda "blowup", it cripples them because their air bladders explode. The Eagles are used to people discarding the ones that are too small and grab them quickly.

 

[Wayne in BC]

was still not very approachable

 

[Wayne in BC]

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[Sunny]

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[Wayne in BC]

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[Royal]

my shiner died on me,so I decided to put on a fresh one. I threw the dead one about five ft behind the boat, we were drifting and a dang eagle liked to have scared the devil out of me as he snatched it off the calm water. I didn't know it was even around

 

[Sunny]

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[Sunny]

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[Art SC]

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[Kelley (Texas)]

I would have liked to have held the big bird...it is beautiful. Did anyone feed the bird while it was drying off? Thanks for posting the story and pictures. Please have a great day! Kelley (Texas)