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| Stupid bird!On Mille Lacs yesterday with clients, I'm chucking a 10" walleye colored Slammer Deep Minnow off the break while the two of them are chucking on top and the edge.My bait hits the water and the client says"that loon just went under as your bait hit the water".I didn't even see the thing that was 30' from splashdown.Mid retrieve, I feel the bait stop and set the hook.There's a fish.Maybe not.The loon comes up immediatly and is freakin out on the surface.I drag it boatside and of course it has ALL 3 774's stuck.One in the beak, one in the foot and one in the wing.Unreal.I get the hookouts and start the process.I get one out of the foot and then the beak.Great, now the stupid bird starts pecking my hands as I'm trying to get it free.My client grabs it by the neck which then allows me to get the hook from the wing.Once free, it swims about 10' from the boat and starts yodeling.The bait was running 8-9' down and can't believe the bird tried to eat it.Stupid bird.A 20# snapping turtle in Wisco earlier this season and now a loon.I wonder how they taste. Steve |
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Location: Madison, WI | ROFL!! That's a great story. Makes be wonder how fast those birds can swim.. |
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| I bet it won't make that mistake again. |
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Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | Steve- ROFLMAO- Obviously you gotta protect that Slammer lure- it's just to realistic. Place place in padded box and ship to me for safe keeping.
Let's see what's left? Maybe a pet alligator that's escaped from it's owner, or perhap's an aggitated beaver?
Have fun!
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Location: Hugo, MN | Steve,
They taste kind of like a cross between an Eagle and Trumpeter Swan . . .  |
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | Wow, hope the loon is ok. I was attacked by a Blue Heron earlier this year, I could feel the wind from its wing as it buzzed me. |
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Location: Greenfield, WI | Steve, you need to cross off any animals that you don't want the bait to catch, from the package when you buy it! (Especially the custom color baits!)
Schwatrz can't be held responsible for his baits catching too much! |
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| Steve, that lure catches anything that swims it seems!
Steve |
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Location: Bartlett IL | Probably not on the same spot as the one that followed the Mag Dawg earlier this month.
You must have the pattern figured out.
Pretty cool how big loons look underwater. |
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Location: St. Louis, MO., Marco Is., FL, Nestor Falls, ON | MuskieMedic - 10/31/2005 10:54 AM
Wow, hope the loon is ok. I was attacked by a Blue Heron earlier this year, I could feel the wind from its wing as it buzzed me.
I saw a Blue Heron down in Florida hit a Pelican on top of the head with its bill and kill the Pelican. I was fishing from the beach and the pelican came up to get the grunt I'd caught and the Blue Heron who was sitting on top of my house objected and drilled that pelican. Made a believer out of me. At the time I had small children and made sure the Heron didn't stay around there anymore. |
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| better watch you dont get that avian flu. or how about go loonie |
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Location: Iowa | I had one follow my bull dawg at Namekagon...I thought it was the head of the biggest fish I had ever seen until it got closer...we also had one hit our sucker we were draggin around while casting...killed the sucker too...I was so pissed...wished I would have had my shotgun to arkansas that b!tch...
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| maybe the loon saw your loon color top-raider in your box and wanted revenge? |
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Location: Yahara River Chain | Steve Jonesi asks "I wonder how they taste."
I would have to say closer to spotted owl rather than eagle! 
We had a commerant grab a swimmin joe, but didn't get hooks (a couple of times). Goofy thing was this fish would not leave us alone, even when we moved. At first it was funny but after a while I was getting pi$$ed. If that bird had gotten close enough (& almost did), I would have rung its neck!
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Location: mpls | I heard they fight like bullheads |
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Location: Corning, Iowa | Well Jonesi, that will look good on your resume. I have caught multi species. Way too go
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | The loon knows how YOU taste! Goofy Catch, man...  |
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| We boated one earlier this year also. Nice catch Steve!!!
Ty |
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| Only you...then again, my girlfriend bites and pecks at me relentlessly, even when we're not in the boat. |
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Location: minneapolis | WOW !! Must be Loon time..................
I was out on 'Tonka on Friday with 2 other guys and we had a Loon going absolutely NUTS for our muskie baits!!!
This thing was giving us fits with super hot follows on everything we threw !
I never realized how big and fast these creatures can be underwater- but this loon was after every thing we threw for over 30 minutes.
There's no way a muskie would have had a chance for any of our baits as this thing was nose tight on the baits. We finally just moved to another bay. I have never experienced anything like it.
Steve- you're a bit more considerate than I - because we decided if this thing actually hooked up on one of our baits- it was cut the line time as there was No Way I was bringing that thing in the boat for a release!!!
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