Today was a pretty uneventful float on the Catawba River with Jackson Kayaks Pro Staffer Stewart Venable. By uneventful, I mean a ginormous bird of prey performed a Stukka-esque dive bomb on my trusty Bull Shad swimbait in the attempt to devour my precious. Not today bird! I have already lost one swimbait to a fowl foul this season and, By God, I would not stand for making it two. The perpetrator, a rangy looking raptor with an appetite for hard resin and steel, swooped in, claws blazing, on a well placed cast behind an exposed rock. Thank God for short strikes as both anglers swung and missed. The raptor, dubbed Most Interesting Bird In The World, was quoted "I don't often eat swimbaits, but when I do, I prefer Bull Shad."

Holy Smokes ~ !

Cool video & Excellent Narrative.

A-Jay

I don't have it on film, but years ago I had an OWL swoop down and grab my ZARA SPOOK and fly off with it. The hook caught his claw, I reeled and he hit the water and I pulled him in very carefully.

He was looking at me the whole time......I grabbed the Spook and it came unhooked and he flew off to land in a tree and stare at me.

The only BIG thing I ever caught with a SPOOK.

But, filming the Osprey was BIG!! Great show!

Unbelievable. Cool Vid

Wow!

Great video, this gave me a good laugh at work.

I've had this happen to me with blue herons takeing after my top waters before, along with seagulls. Definitely don't want to take the hook out of a blue heron lol.