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Yesterday while fishing on the river. I looked up and saw a bald eagle. It circled and circled, lowering each pass. It was really magnificent. As it got lower to the water, talons were out stretched and it snatched a fish of some kind not 75 yards from my boat. Totally in awe from the sight i had never seen before in live action. Just curious what are some of the things you guys have seen that are rememberable events.
The American Eagle is a mighty bird. 2 years ago at fall camp I saw that very same thing at Nimrod. Also saw one take a trout on the Little Red River. We are a lucky few that get to see this part of nature.
Years ago I got to see an eagle do that. I guess he missed because I could not see a fish, but what a sight.
No way I can top an eagle story. I have many memories of the sights, sounds and awe of their presence.
But, I saw squirrels migrating across the Little Red by the hundreds one time. I told the boy to net a couple for supper. I failed to tell him to drown the 1st little rat before he plopped it in my lap.
I have never seen that sight again.
DP
The wife and I were trout fishing on the White River and witnessed what we assumed to be a momma eagle snatching a trout and taking it to the nest that was right on the river.
I had a baby raccoon try to get in the boat with me on the Little Red. Attachment 137797
Last year on Harris Brake Lake, I saw a Mississippi Kite snatch a fish from the lake. A couple minutes later a Bald Eagle was chassing the Kite. Eventually the Kite droped the fish and the Eagle went down and picked it up and carried it off. So in other words the Kite did all of the hard work and the Eagle stole the fish from it. It was pretty cool.
Seen many eagles, always awesome, had one fly within 20 feet of me carrying brush for a nest. Saw deer swimming by, even had one jump into a pond I was fishing on Eglin AFB with 10 feet of me, with a hound on it's tail. Deer swam across, dog got confused and came back on my side. But my favorite was at Lake Mary in Miss. 35 years ago. Was watching 2 squirrels chasing each other and one missed a branch about 50 ft up. Fell to the ground and I thought it died. After a minute it stood up and shook it's head to clear the cobwebs for about a minute. Then right back to the chase. My friend and I laughed. Also ,lost our basket over the side of the boat that day with about 20 crappie and a couple bass in it.:((managed to catch about 20 more) Thanks for starting this thread. I enjoyed thinking back on some wonderful memories. :)
I had basically the same thing happen to me three years ago on Lake Monticello. It was late one afternoon after work and I was the only boat on the lake. The only difference was the fish he grabbed up was one I had thrown to him that was floating 50 feet from my boat. I did not think about the camera in my phone until it was all over with. It was definitely an event to remember.
D10, I saw basically the same thing on Reelfoot this past spring. I don't know what kind of birds those are in those nests all over the lake, but the whitish black bird (I think they are osprey) caught a fish and was flying off when this eagle came from the heavens above in a dive. I'm not sure the 2 collided, but it was an aerial show to remember with the big bald eagle winning. That's cool stuff to watch and I feel blessed to have seen it.
Ospreys are abundant around. Some mistake them for eagles sometimes.
So many sunsets.........my favorite time. Sunrises would be nice, but they occur at very weird times of the day for me.........................
This is sorta like Yogi Berra once said......"You can observe a lot just by watching"........
My son and I fishing White River lake this year when a black bear came down the bank and swam across the lake. This was an awesome site.
Cool slab jammer. I tried to get my phone on the eagle but the sun was bad and I couldn't see anything thru camera phone.
I got to witness pretty much the same thing trout fishing on the White River just below Boswell Shoals last year. Friend and I were fishing and I saw a mature bald eagle fly over us going upstream. We watched him go about 100 yards above us, turn and head back downstream at a lower altitude. He flew pretty much right over us again, dropped down just above the water and then dipped down and caught a trout in his claws and flew off. He was so close we could see the trout flopping, trying to get out of the grasp of the eagle. I thought to myself at the time, that's the way it's supposed to be, the circle of life. I'll never forget that experience. Wish I had it on video!
Those squirrels weren't migrating. They were washing their nuts. :-)Quote:
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Saw an eagle snatch a snow goose outta the air once while standing in my Grandma's yard. Saw an alligator eat a nutria rat on AR River once even though I've always been told they don't eat em. Caught an alligator on a bass jig at Peckerwood Lake few years ago. Prolly may favorite happened when I was a kid fishing a lake in white river bottoms below Clarendon: was bream fishing w crickets and threw a cricket leg into the water over side of boat and a minnow swam up to it, then a bream swam up and ate the minnow, then a bass swam up and ate the bream. Sounds like some fish stories huh?
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There you go! That's the circle of life again! Great story1
Saw a squirrel trying to get a nut off a low hanging limb over the water and when he got to the end of the limb the limb went under water and a big bass came up and ate the squirrel. In just a few minutes, the bass came back up and put another nut out on the end of the limb.
RCC, you is a nut. Heard bass will hit baby ducks, never seen it though.
I saw this on Lake Hamilton when I was kid. Me and a buddy were walking the sea wall at my grandmothers fishing docks when a hen mallard came swimming by with her babies and the back one got hammered by a big ole bass. I also had a cottonmouth try getting in the boat with me on a reservoir in Stuttgart but after I hit him with my rod he backed off to a top I had been fishing when a monster bass hit him and knocked him out about a foot out of the water.Quote:
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The time I pulled up to a cypress tree to get my jig out and was face to face with a CottonMouth...Or the time this year I had one fall out of a tree onto my shoulder or the time i set the hook under a cypress tree missed the fish and stirred a big ole red wasp nest. Ahhh the memory's. Good Times. LOL
Those big old cypress tree red wasp are lethal.
Had a snake get in my seat while running lines at night. I could hear rods and reels crunching as I made my way to the back of the boat. When my shoes hit the transom, I put the light back on the front and the snake was trying to get away as much as I was. The wasp stories bring back some memories. When I was young, we had a couple of locals to drown after getting in one of those big river wasp nest. I think their name was Alread. I've seen a few of those nests as big around as a gallon bucket...maybe bigger. Of course this makes me remember capturing a hornets nest with a buddy. Temps were low enough the hornets could crawl but not fly. I gotta dig out those pics. I told my buddy while he was taking the pic "if you look in the camera viewfinder and I ain't there, RUN".
All these extra little things that happen just make a better memory or story.
I've got one that will be hard to top! While on the way to go dove hunting one morning years ago , me and a friend drove up on a whitetail doe standing in a ditch along the highway , I stopped and backed up to take a look at her and she wouldn't run so I ask my buddy how close you think I can get to her, I got out and walked slowly up to the deer expecting her to take off and only when I ran my hand along her face did she take off, I got back in the truck ands said to my buddy do you believe that just happened! As we started to drive away here the deer came running back and stood in the ditch once again, so I told rob I was gonna see if I could get that close again, we both got out of the truck this time and keep in mind it was still dark out and the headlights were blinding, as I reached out to touch the deer she took off like her rear end was on fire, ran across the highway made a big circle and came running right straight back at my truck,the deer was at a full speed all out run and ran into the trailer hitch on the back of the truck and on the slick asphalt lost her footing a slid under the truck and was bellowing like you wouldn't believe so I garbed her by the back legs and pulled her from under the truck, keep in mind the truck doors were still standing wide open and when this deer got loose she took off along the side of the truck and the driver side door acted like a cattle gate , the deer hit that door and jumped right up in the front seat of the truck and was kicking and bellowing and I thought she was gonna shred the seat with those hooves so I garbed her by the tail with her kicking like crazy and pulled her from the truck, once I got her from the truck I looked at my buddy and said let's get the heck outta her this things gone crazy, we couldn't believe what had just happened, several hours later after the morning hunt we drove back through the same area and there the deer was walking in circles and we knew something had to be wrong with her so we called the game and fish and a warden came and to shoot the deer , they sent the deer off for testing and the best I can recall we found out later the deer had brain worms, now that's a story and one I'll never forget!!!!
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In honor of Crappie Greg...I'm sure these were checking Carol and I out at Beaver lake last year to make sure we weren't Crappie Greg. I think they had revenge on their mind.
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I don't know about that brain worm story!! I'm thinking that deer just liked the way you touched it!!! :Rofl