one for you birdy.....fishing tunars 2 years ago, aside from the 22 fish, we hooked up with two birds. One big gull, and what I think could have been a small albatros (I say small, but this bird was huge!). I brought the gull to the boat, I had hooked him in the neck with a barbless double tuna hook. He had no problem letting me wrangle him, remove the hook and unwrap the 200lb leader from his wings. He went about his business just fine.
The (possible) albatros was not nearly as welcoming. I got that big ******* to the boat and he was in for the fight. I tried to remove the leader from his wings but he was having none of it, snapping at me quite visciously. The first thing I saw was my knife, and his days were close to numbered lol (jokingly), maybe he saw me glance at the blade...but he took one more bite, right through the 200LB MONO! like it was nothing. I wouldn't believe it unless I was holding the bird when it happened, which I was. Crazy beak strength I tell ya! Not sure I'd be so willing to rescue an eagle, I'd sooner just cut the line as those talons and beak look like they could leave a mark!
Cool vid, thanks for the post.
