Topwaters for Whooping Cranes

[petertherock]

Just want to share this funny story. One day Dean Voekel from the Bridgeport subdivision in Cape Fair and I were fishing up in Piney Creek. It was post-spawn so we were throwing Spooks and Pop-R's early in the morning at some schooling bass. As I was conversing with Dean, looking at him and not where I had just cast my lure, my Pop'R landed 6 ft from a whooping crane perched on a stump. I turned and looked to see the bird taking a dive at my lure. Fortunately for the bird it one it's prey but only got hooked in the bill. That dad'gon bird took off down the lack sending my drag in into orbit. I tightened up on my drag and that dad'gon bird starting pulling our bassboat along with him. Finally he lighted on a stump on the other side of the cove and I was able to reel to him and free him. I don't know if there is a limit on whooping cranes or not, and I certainly didn't want to check it out with the game warden.

Get this! Dean is out on the lake again a few days later fishing off of Virgin Bluff, when somebody's lost pet cockateel lands in his boat. Dean ignored him and kept fishing. The bird never flew away! Well, Dean took him home, got him a cage, and the bird is still with Dean and his wife today. Dean coached him to talk. You can only imagine the fish stories that that bird can tell. Why there is no telling how long he was perched above Virgin Bluff watching the action. So a word of advice if you're headed up the James to go fising, watch out for the whooping cranes and the best info and report you might get, could come from Dean's bird, call him, the bird that is!

petertherock

P.S. lilley,

Can we add spell check to the forum: it's won not one; lake not lack; fishing not fising! Maybe it's just because it's 3:00 in the morning and I'm still awake!

petertherock

[Wayne SW/MO]

Here you go

Spell checker for dummies like us