Encounter with Mex Navy

[bpagentkastoll]

Close Encounter with the Mexican Navy

Just bought an X-Factor, yesterday was my second outing. Met up with Craige (also X-Factor) and headed out to SI.Got bait, Around 7pm move towards bait barge, first bait down, grumpy sandie Next bait, again grumpy shows up. Start a drift, short hali, second driftt something messing with my bait,SWING I'm on. first legal hali on the yak. 30". Being the newbie I am, no lights to run at night. I channel my inner McGyver, stick a flashlight in an empty water bottle secured to one of my rods Start back to SI around 9pm, I lookup my flashlight more like a candle.Full moon decent visibility Pretty uneventful, UNTIL, i see this fast appoaching shadow bearing down on me. I can barely get an OH SHIT out when a pelican barely misses be and crashes into my rods. Flashlight into the drink, Admiral Pelican does a few cart wheels on the water and dissappears. Made it back to SI boat ramp All in all, a decent learning experince.
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[ful-rac]

You mean Admiral Pelicano'? ;)

[makobob]

Popped your cherry with a 30" inch butt, not too shabby!!

[easyday]

Had a pelican snatch up a surface iron of mine. And yes I got it back....

[MrPatrick]

Alcatraz is my favorite translation for Pelican.

[phreshwon]

That's the Mexican Airforce not the Navy!

[MrPatrick]

In the dark he thought you were on a P.A., he was coming In to do a carrier landing. They use the rods like the catch net at the end of the flight deck. Pelicans are Naval bombers, I've seen it in person. Watched a squadron of them take out six tourists at La Jolla in June.

[CKallday71]

Wouldn't that be the Mexican Airfarce?

[bpagentkastoll]

i am lucky it was just a single, i don't think things would been so funny had there been a few more behind him. i think i might need some kind of windshield to deflect these aerial assualts

[Baja_Traveler]

How did you know it was Mexican - did it say OH S#!T in spanish as it smashed into your rods?

[bpagentkastoll]

The sombrero he was wearing gave it away. based on his poor navi skills he might be the one behind all the beached pangas up north.

[undrH2Ohntr]

Speaking of pelicans....I was spearfishing down in Baja two weeks ago and this guy tried to eat my head multiple times. I got dive bombed, pecked at in the water, and then he followed me onto the boat. All in all, it must have been 30-40 minutes that this thing followed me around. Trying to eat my hands, arms, and head.

Pretty funny when you come up from a dive and all of sudden something grabs your head. The pelican literally had my entire head in his beak/mouth?

[undrH2Ohntr]

A little fish porn while were at it...

[taggermike]

I've had a few close fly bys and day light touch and goes but full impact, that's bad. Glad he didn't catch you in the head or had a whole air wing with him. Pelis are magnificent birds but it seams no matter how stupid and clumsy you think they are, they are stupider and clumsier than that. Mike