Earlier today, while I was rebooting my computer, my oldest daughter came in and asked me, what kind of bird looks like a hawk with a white head, I told her a bald eagle, so she tells me there's 1 circling around out front. There haven't been any around here for a looong time, so I went back to what I was doing. A few minutes later my youngest daughter came in and said there were 2 of them, ok and I went back to work. About that time the wife comes in, come look at this and see if it's a bald eagle, ok be there in a minute. Sure enough there wrere 2 bald eagles circling my house, so I told the wife to get the camera, I'm going fishing. I got my rod and tied a small stuffed rat on the line, figured I could toss it out and maybe get it to dive on it. I threw it out and twiched it a few times, one of the eagles saw it and started a very tight circle right above it. I told my wife to get ready to take a pic, it dove down and about 10 feet off the ground he turned and went back up. He was moving so fast all you could see was a blur, no pic. I tried for about another hour and that was all they would do, gotta get some better bait. They must have realized it was not real before they got to it, but I thought atleast one of them would have grabbed it long enough to get a few pics. It was a wonderful sight to see them soaring around for a couple of hours though. If I see them again I'll try to go fishing and maybe get a close up pic. Anyway I just thought I would share my nonproductive back yard fishing trip,hehe.
Mike
