Loon's

[leech~~]

Well not at your feeder type birds but we had these two diving under the boat this weekend. I keep thinking I'm going to snag one of these crazy little Bas-areds someday! 

[half-dutch]

I have seen loons take suckers hooked up as musky bait more than once.  One time the loon dropped the sucker and was not hooked.  Another time the loon was hooked deep and almost certainly died. 

[leech~~]

This lake is loaded with Loon's. I had one a few years ago that would follow me around the lake when I was fishing deeper water. When ever I moved and it could be as far as a 1/4 of the lake he would fly over and start diving again. I'm pretty sure they are going after the minnows that school under our boat.

[Hawg]

I was in a tournament this weekend and had a loon that made it impossible to fish a sucker below a bobber for northerns. I actually poked him 3 or 4 times with the rod tip following the sucker in but he still stayed till I gave up. Fun to watch but bad when you need a big northern for a mixed bag division. 

[smurfy]

i was trolling with my dad once using daredevils and thought them goofy loons where going to hit the daredevil. not sure what or why they sure dont seem to afraid of boats. pretty awesome to see them up close.

 

memorial weekend we where traveling in a small narrow channel between 2 lakes and seen one sitting on a nest. now i've seen loons sitting on nests before but never seen them "crouch" down or flatten themselves out to try and go undetected like this one. that was awesome to see!!!!!!!!!!