bird caught in fishing line pic

[NJ219bands]

A common grackle was stuck in fishing line and hanging over the Delaware and Raritan Canal yesterday evening near Princeton, NJ. A guy got a long handled pruning tool and cut it down. Many people were very upset. NJ fishermen now have less supporters.

[buzzbaiter]

We have enough grackles. Darwinism at work...

[ATH1089]

Originally Posted by buzzbaiter

We have enough grackles. Irresponsible fishermen at work...

Fixed that for you. Natural selection is a driving force of evolution. Leaving a clump of line in a tree is not.

[Rybazłapać]

This doesn't sound that funny. Last time I went down to fish with my buddy at Newton Lake my buddy was soaking a bit of pork fat for catfish and a duck got clothes lined by his line. It sat on the water for a second looking disoriented then took off fine. That was pretty funny.

[buzzbaiter]

Anglers do many irresponsible things, leaving line in a tree branch is hardly one of them. I've probably lost about $1000 in lures & line because my line snapped and either the water was too deep or a branch too high or too far to get it back. Hows that being irresponsible? Line discarded on the ground is being lazy. Line left in a tree is usually an accident. Not sure where it got hung up. Maybe the grackle can tell us...

I wade a lot around the edges of lakes & ponds and more than once became entangled in line I didn't see. Some so strong it nearly tripped me over. Do I like this? Of course not but I'm gonna play the blame game. Heck for all I know it was my own line from years ago! What I can blame anglers for is all the garbage discarded in the water that I find along the edges like lure packages. I will say though that the item I find most in the water is beer cans. Lots of them.

[Denlon]

Originally Posted by Rybazłapać

This doesn't sound that funny. Last time I went down to fish with my buddy at Newton Lake my buddy was soaking a bit of pork fat for catfish and a duck got clothes lined by his line. It sat on the water for a second looking disoriented then took off fine. That was pretty funny.

I bet it wasn't as funny as the day when my Dad hooked a sea plane flying by the Long Branch fishing pier in the middle 1950's. My dad had just cast out (using a conventional reel) when a coast guard sea plane with a cowboy pilot flew by the end of the pier, low enough and close enough that the loop in the line got hooked over one of the pontoons. The line went roaring off the reel until it burned my Dad's thumb and the reel back lashed and the line broke off.

I bet the pilot was surprised to see the sinker/hook/bait on the pontoon if it was still there when he landed.

Denny

[acabtp]

Originally Posted by Denlon

I bet it wasn't as funny as the day when I Dad hooked a sea plane flying by the Long Branch fishing pier in the middle 1950's. My dad had just cast out (using a conventional reel) when a coast guard sea plane with a cowboy pilot flew by the end of the pier, low enough and close enough that the loop in the line got hooked over one of the pontoons. The line went roaring off the reel until it burned my Dad's thumb and the reel back lashed and the line broke off.

I bet the pilot was surprised to see the sinker/hook/bait on the pontoon if it was still there when he landed.

Denny

man, as a kid i was impressed when my dad hooked into a jetski at corson's inlet... seaplane would have been WAY COOLER!