Trolling for seagulls

[duckmen1]

While trolling for trout this year I saw a seagull hit the water way behind the boat. Moments later my brother did the traditional shout out fish on. To then only realize he was flying a kite. I took a quick picture with the bird as it sat in my hand like a calm kitten. It was then released unharmed. This is the second seagull we have caught
What's the daily limit

[PolarBear]

Pretty neat trick in reverse gravity!

[duckmen1]

That trick is by mistake. The pictures on the computer are rights side up, but when I post they are upside down, sideways, everything but right side up. Can't figure out why.

[PolarBear]

 

[duckmen1]

This type of thing always seems to happen to us. I always am telling a story to my buddies and they think I'm fibbing until I show them the pictures or bring them out to witness it for themselves.

[PolarBear]

We use to catch seagulls from the jetty at Westport.  When schools of feeding bass were near the surface we would throw out plastic worms or shrimp without weights and jerk them across the surface.  Seagulls would pick them up and take off with them.  It was kind of a fun fight in the air until they puked it up.

[DoubleJ]

We use to catch seagulls from the jetty at Westport.  When schools of feeding bass were near the surface we would throw out plastic worms or shrimp without weights and jerk them across the surface.  Seagulls would pick them up and take off with them.  It was kind of a fun fight in the air until they puked it up.

My brother and I did that with a perch at Banks Lake when we were kids.  He got one to swallow his perch and let the bail out when it flew back up and started hovering in the wind with about a dozen other seagulls.  Then he flipped the bail, reeled up the slack and started jerking on it.  The seagull dipped and dived and was drug all out of sorts and then his beak snapped the line.

Good times and a hell of a laugh.

[jeepasaurusrex]

I like using Alka-Seltzer for bait... 

[Moose-head]

I had one on this summer while putting my herring out before clipping it in the downrigger.  Luckily I have perfected the art of long line release on fish and was able to apply my expertise the seagull

[PolarBear]

After a day of fishing on the jetty my cousin and I had a tradition of stopping at McDonnald's in Scabberdeen for a fish sammich.  We would feed the seagulls and crows french fries and ex lax.  You should see the mess that they made to that parking lot!

[BullMagnet76]

I like using Alka-Seltzer for bait... 

  

[jeepasaurusrex]

While plunking on the Snohomish river back in the early 80s, Dad was casting out and nailed a seagull dead center with a 10oz pyramid sinker. Needless to say, that gull did not make it. 

[Fishaholic]

i have caught a few seagulls off shrimp while floating a bobber in westport very fun stuff

[Moose-head]

The pyramid sinker reminds me of one I saw up in Homer Ak. at the snagging hole.  Salmon mill around in a saltwater lagoon and at times they allow you to snag there.  People use big treble hooks with a couple of ounces of lead on them and you chuck it out there and yank it back and try to snag some salmon.  I was walking around the outside of the hole and heard a hollow sounding THUD.  I looked over and saw a little 10-11 year old girl who had just hit and hooked one in mid-flight holding her pole out to her dad and with a panicked voice walked toward him saying “Dad…Dad…Dad…” Her dad netted the bird and took care of it.  As a father that image of her shoving the pole with a freaked out bird on a treble hook to her dad always gets a chuckle out of me.