Weird Catches

[ziggy6]

My family was vacationing on a beach on Cape Cod when a sudden wind took a families umbrella into the surf and it was heading to the ocean like a boat.  My son who is pretty handy with a rod tossed a lure snagging  the umbrella. Took about 5 minutes but he was able to drag the sucker in. NO great white but a pretty cool catch for that day.

[GregL]

My family was vacationing on a beach on Cape Cod when a sudden wind took a families umbrella into the surf and it was heading to the ocean like a boat.  My son who is pretty handy with a rod tossed a lure snagging  the umbrella. Took about 5 minutes but he was able to drag the sucker in. NO great white but a pretty cool catch for that day.

HAHA! Awesome, I had to do that to canoe once!

[Oarin]

As kids, my friends and I used to fish Ellicott Creek in Tonawanda for carp and suckers. It was a fun way to spend a day, but on a few occasions we'd hook onto the dreaded "white carp". Seems the creek area was a popular area for couples to have sex and then toss the condoms into the creek. Yuck! Time to cut the line and retie.

[Balsams]

C.C., I always love to read your posts. I would buy your book.

[Hodgey1]

For anyone who's ever fished Alwaki, I'm sure they've encountered a pest of a Loon "I've heard, is named Larry".

Last week, my wife and I had a more unusual Larry encounter than normal. His usual is to watch and see if you are catching fish, then swim over and wait for you to throw fish back and eat them. He can down a 14" walleye in under a minute and then be looking for more. When you are not catching, he dives under the boat non-stop and can be seen on the fish finder as the Lochness swimming by. Needless to say, he is beyond a pest and not good for the fishing when dive bombing under your boat.

So, one day last week my wife has a fish on and it appears she has a monster on, peeling line like she just hooked a Marlin. She hands the pole to me, since she felt unsure how to play the apparent extra large fish she just hooked. I reduced the drag fearing a snapped line and up pops the dang Loon with her Walleye in its mouth. I Quickly tighten the drag and yank as hard as I could, which out came the Fish. I then cranked the walleye in as fast as possible and barely got it in the boat before old Lare could grab it again.

Here's where it gets better/worse, I'm unhooking the fish when I here my wife scream. I look and she  is in pain shaking her hand and said old Larry bit her as she said she was "shooshing" him away with her hand. He reached up and grabbed her hand with his powerful beak, we assume, thinking she was feeding him a fish as some people in the past must be doing.

He needs to be relocated as he is one giant pest, I'm sure mostly due to people feeding him and creating the monster he has become.

[Rico]

For anyone who's ever fished Alwaki, I'm sure they've encountered a pest of a Loon "I've heard, is named Larry".

Last week, my wife and I had a more unusual Larry encounter than normal. His usual is to watch and see if you are catching fish, then swim over and wait for you to throw fish back and eat them. He can down a 14" walleye in under a minute and then be looking for more. When you are not catching, he dives under the boat non-stop and can be seen on the fish finder as the Lochness swimming by. Needless to say, he is beyond a pest and not good for the fishing when dive bombing under your boat.

So, one day last week my wife has a fish on and it appears she has a monster on, peeling line like she just hooked a Marlin. She hands the pole to me, since she felt unsure how to play the apparent extra large fish she just hooked. I reduced the drag fearing a snapped line and up pops the dang Loon with her Walleye in its mouth. I Quickly tighten the drag and yank as hard as I could, which out came the Fish. I then cranked the walleye in as fast as possible and barely got it in the boat before old Lare could grab it again.

Here's where it gets better/worse, I'm unhooking the fish when I here my wife scream. I look and she  is in pain shaking her hand and said old Larry bit her as she said she was "shooshing" him away with her hand. He reached up and grabbed her hand with his powerful beak, we assume, thinking she was feeding him a fish as some people in the past must be doing.

He needs to be relocated as he is one giant pest, I'm sure mostly due to people feeding him and creating the monster he has become.

Moral of the story is, don't wave your hand in front of the mouth of a hungry wild animal. 

[limacharley]

Wow, I've never heard of a "tamed" loon. Pretty soon he'll be flying south.
So this loon keeps coming back to Alwaki year after year?

[Hodgey1]

So this loon keeps coming back to Alwaki year after year?

Hey Lima, I am told his/her 8th year at Alwaki area of the lake.

Also, just to be clear to all, my wife and I have never treated this Loon as anything other than a wild animal and have never purposefully fed it. I have even hurled my small catches as far away from the boat as I can, in an opposite direction of this beast and he still gets the fish more times than not.

YouTube video of Larry the Loon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBEf7agkMqk

[Greg]

HA!!! Larry.... that is funny.

We actually called him Henry - and we have a similar video of him someplace - hanging around the boat and diving under the boat and swimming right up to the boat when you catch a fish and wanting it as a snack!  Our interaction with him lasted about 45 minutes while jigging Sunny-side one morning.

I didn't realize he has reached celebrity status!

The legend of Larry/Henry "the loon" has begun...

[kipawa4]

  I have heard him called Louie, Larry, Lawrence, Jerry, and now Henry.  I have met him different times on occasion in Kelly Bay and across the lake from there.  There was another loon up at Alwaki's outpost cabin this year.  He was also starting to carry on like the previous mentioned criminal.  Don't know if he is a relative or former cell mate or not. No name or alias other then unknown at the Post Office, poster and picture.

[T-Bone]

I know that guy up close. I have a great pic of him from about 6 years ago...I'll find it and post it. If throwing the fish back in and him getting it is feeding him, I've seen him do that many times. No way hold fish in your hand and "feed" him. Can't relocate though...they have a very good GPS of their own and they know their spot. They migrate way south in winter...Gulf of Mexico...SE coast of US. Crazy animal...so fascinating.

[RoK]

Not a loon, but twice I have been trolling with someone who caught a seagull. One of those occasions was on Kipawa.

[Hodgey1]

  I have heard him called Louie, Larry, Lawrence, Jerry, and now Henry.  I have met him different times on occasion in Kelly Bay and across the lake from there.  There was another loon up at Alwaki's outpost cabin this year.  He was also starting to carry on like the previous mentioned criminal.  Don't know if he is a relative or former cell mate or not. No name or alias other then unknown at the Post Office, poster and picture.

Can someone add Kelly bay to the collaborative map?

https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1i0q7_FP8SmDyGalN6TGk9qZ1u8gHmX-I&ll=46.92770145972488%2C-78.91424112110366&z=11

or explain where it is and I will add it.

[T-Bone]

I added it; it's between Sunnyside and Sand Banks. Label isn't appearing for some reason...maybe because it's a new add.

I also noticed some of the 3Seasons faithful have taken the time to add their common 'hot spots'. Awfully generous. 

[Hodgey1]

I added it; it's between Sunnyside and Sand Banks. Label isn't appearing for some reason...maybe because it's a new add.

Kelly's Bay is showing up fine, thanks for adding it!