Me and 2 of my buddies were surf fishin, around the emrald isle NC, when a flock of pelicans flew about 30 ft over head, joklingly I threw my jig in one of the birds general flight path, I thought I missed but a couple of seconds later I flipped down the bail and felt a tugg I thought my lure had fell in the water and I was getting a bite but I realised I had hooked one of the birds . I look back at my friends and yell I got em, and took off bookin down the beans reeling in line at the same time. Finally I jerked the bird out of the sky and into the water, I reeled in the 30 lb bird and for all you liberal/tree huggers out there the bird was released unharmed, but it's still a cool story to tell