Big Catch on the Bear!

[Gone Forever]

It was fairly common in Florida to have a brown pelican or gull get "lured" in and caught. Both are vicious when or if you managed to get them to you. The best option was to get a towel or something wrapped over their head to blind them. They'd stop fighting immediately that way. Get the hooks out the best way you could and then stand BEHIND the bird when you pull off the towel.

Yes, most of the piers have big hoop nets that they use to bring the pelican up for hook or line extraction, they are pretty good at grabbing them, getting them calmed down and released.
Now the Dolphins...yeah, like flipper.  They are fast and accurate.  Seems like no matter how fast you retrieve a mackerel or croaker, they are on it and with precise precision they can cut that fish in half just behind the head leaving you with not much.

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It was fairly common in Florida to have a brown pelican or gull get "lured" in and caught. Both are vicious when or if you managed to get them to you. The best option was to get a towel or something wrapped over their head to blind them. They'd stop fighting immediately that way. Get the hooks out the best way you could and then stand BEHIND the bird when you pull off the towel.

Yes, most of the piers have big hoop nets that they use to bring the pelican up for hook or line extraction, they are pretty good at grabbing them, getting them calmed down and released.
Now the Dolphins...yeah, like flipper.  They are fast and accurate.  Seems like no matter how fast you retrieve a mackerel or croaker, they are on it and with precise precision they can cut that fish in half just behind the head leaving you with not much.