12-30-2015, 02:26 PM
I have a lifetime of good memories of pelicans, perhaps because I associate them with fish. In Mexico when we would return to port they would trail behind the boat where we would feed them any remaining live bait aboard. Occasionally, one would land on the transom expecting to be hand fed. You had to be careful not to get your fingers in their maws. They bite hard!
In the vastness of the open ocean, we would search for birds feeding on boiling baits that the game fish would ball up. Pelicans would normally be part of the mix, dropping from the air like white feathered bombs into the chaos of the boiling sea. Hundreds of birds would join the tuna and other game fish in an absolute feeding frenzy. It was an extraordinary fishing opportunity and one I witnessed on a smaller scale at Lincoln beach last week with gulls diving on the white bass.
It surprised me to see the feeding birds, but I was delighted as well, knowing the birds presence meant big schools of fish. The pelicans brought a
to my face remembering back to great fishing trips I've had in my long life and the birds that were a part of it all.
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In the vastness of the open ocean, we would search for birds feeding on boiling baits that the game fish would ball up. Pelicans would normally be part of the mix, dropping from the air like white feathered bombs into the chaos of the boiling sea. Hundreds of birds would join the tuna and other game fish in an absolute feeding frenzy. It was an extraordinary fishing opportunity and one I witnessed on a smaller scale at Lincoln beach last week with gulls diving on the white bass.
It surprised me to see the feeding birds, but I was delighted as well, knowing the birds presence meant big schools of fish. The pelicans brought a
to my face remembering back to great fishing trips I've had in my long life and the birds that were a part of it all.[url "http://handinhandoutdoors.org"]http://handinhandoutdoors.org[/url]
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