Pelican attack - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

PapaDave · 08-10-2012, 08:33 AM

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Originally Posted by StinkyMatt

You are missing the point!!!!!!!

If you feed a pelican enough, he will become your friend.......

A good friend that will guide you to your next YT boil!

Just ask my buddy Dave.

No YT that day, just a couple of Threshers later in the day.

The Pelis have been extremely agressive at DP these days, I have literally had to pull a couple of short WSB and barries out of their mouths while fishing the harbor. And they are coming onto the yaks, in force. I usually grab them by the beaks and shove them off. They're wimps when you get to know them better.

taggermike · 08-10-2012, 10:07 AM

Ed, you a 100% dead on about shearwaters. I thought cormorants sucked until I had to handle a shearwater. Biting, pecking, flaping like crazy, making some sort of demonic noise, nasty way sharp little claws. Pelis are just big, ugly, and anoying. With our state's climate of over sensativity coupled with the publics complete ignorance of actual (not disney) animal behavior please be very careful that any pelican fend off looks like a gentle push and not a smack or shove. Just a precaution. Mike

Poxy Boggards · 08-10-2012, 12:24 PM

They are annoying bait stealers and rig tanglers. I've left a couple of hooks in some at Dana and Newport Recently, but they don't learn. There is one down in Dana with about 3 lines hanging out of his mouth still trying to gulp down casted baits.

08-10-2012, 10:07 AM	#2
taggermike Senior Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Chula Vista Posts: 1,589	Ed, you a 100% dead on about shearwaters. I thought cormorants sucked until I had to handle a shearwater. Biting, pecking, flaping like crazy, making some sort of demonic noise, nasty way sharp little claws. Pelis are just big, ugly, and anoying. With our state's climate of over sensativity coupled with the publics complete ignorance of actual (not disney) animal behavior please be very careful that any pelican fend off looks like a gentle push and not a smack or shove. Just a precaution. Mike

08-10-2012, 12:24 PM	#3
Poxy Boggards Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 146	They are annoying bait stealers and rig tanglers. I've left a couple of hooks in some at Dana and Newport Recently, but they don't learn. There is one down in Dana with about 3 lines hanging out of his mouth still trying to gulp down casted baits.