Lower Pool 4 seagull report by Jarrad Fluekiger

How does one catch one. Well, it goes like this. The first thing you need to have is good visiblity. At least for the first 10,000 feet above water. Then drag a sauger around and start sqwaking like a seagull. IF you have the right mating call something like this might happen. All BS aside this seagull tried to take our dinner several times. It was a site to see and fun watching him try to take the fish out of the water. He did manage to grab it once but never pulled it out of the water. This went out for atleast a minute or two.

I had a heron do the same thing to me a couple weeks ago. Pretty cool sight.

This reminds me of a funny (True) story. My bro and I were fishing Lake Phalen from a boat here in St Paul. It’s a city lake with a park and walkway circling the lake. There are always people walking/jogging/biking the trail. Lots of “people watching” going on.

We are pitching jigs/minnows to a weed-line near shore when a Seagull swoops down and nails my brother’s jig! That’s right, hooked the thing right in the kisser. The bird immediately takes to flight and starts squawking up a storm. My brother is fighting this bird flying around us…the thing was taking drag!

While all of this is going on, a small crowd has started to gather to watch. After a couple minutes, the exhausted bird decides to land near the boat, still squawking up a storm. My bro reels the bird up to the boat and I carefully grab the hooked bird behind the head and remove the jig. No harm done and the bird takes off to cheers from the crowd!!

So, Jon, what would you recommend as the hot color of jig to cast for these seagulls? Going to try the K-Grubs in the fall for them?! LOL!!

Mark

I have had one pick up a Tiny Torpedo I was using on white bass feeding on surface. Also had one get in the path of my casted Red Eye and get hooked in mid air. Both birds got off safely although I had to get the Red Eye off at the boat. Reminds me of the major league baseball game in which a seagull was hit by a thrown ball.

Here’s one for ya’. I was surf fishing in Nags Head N.C. last fall. I was floating a green crab under a balloon for stripper’s along a jetty. I had the rod in a sand spike and was talking to my wife, when she said that the balloon had disappeared. I grabbed the rod up and started to pick up the slack in the line when I noticed that the line was vertical. Low and behold, I had a gull on. It took sometime to get it in, but I did. After rapping it in a beach towel, it calmed down and I was able to get the hook out without doing any harm to the bird. It just happened to be the only thing that I caught that day. Go figure.

Hey Jarrard
Last year on the Chippewa flat I was trolling number 7 shad raps…water was crystal clear…Next thing I know my rod is starting to pull up out of the rod holder..Straight up.
I had a nice Gull on a Blue and silver Shad rap..However When I set the hook times three he finally came off.
But it was one hell of a fight,and he should have had to file a flight plan the way he was flying!!!!!

Here is picture just for thought!!!
Wonder whats going through his mind.
Wiggle my toes?
Wonder what color his shorts are??