My husband keeps saying, “All my life I have wanted to catch a seagull and he isn’t even trying to and catches one!”
Yes, our son caught a seagull. With a cheezit.
Here’s how you catch a seagull, in case you ever were curious how it can be done.
We recently spent a day a the lake. S3 decided he was done with swimming and wanted to catch a carp in the worst way. He wandered over the fishing area near the swimming area and baited his hook with cheezit’s and waited.
My brother was fishing with him and had made little stick fishing poles for the littler kids. The carp were so huge that they were snapping the fishing line off as they swam around everyone’s feet. These were some huge carp!
S3 lucked out, as it would be, and snagged himself a big carp. We were all shocked the cheezit actually worked! He was all kinds of proud of himself and my brother was so impressed he told him he would cook it for him that night over a campfire.
Catching a seagull with Cheezit’s.
S3 was thrilled.
He decided two fish are better than one so he immediately baited his hook and waited for another fish to come by.
With all the stick poles out of use now since the carp had taken the entire line and ran with every one of them, S3 was the only one fishing and we were keeping an eye on him.
We heard the seagull and really couldn’t believe what we were seeing.
S3 was reeling the fish down from the air, his face utter and total shock. We were all just dumbfounded that we were actually seeing him REEL IN A SEAGULL.
“Dad! Dad, I caught a seagull!” he shouted.
Jake, laughing, headed his way but he was out a ways. You have to know my husband has the loudest, boomingist voice. “Way to go, son! We’ll fry it up with the fish!”
Totally. Joking.
I was frantically looking for my phone so I could get this on camera because REALLY, he CAUGHT A SEAGULL.
While this is happening, a woman comes booking it toward our son and tackles the seagull right to the water. I mean, she was on that seagull like the seagull was on that cheezit. We were all right there with him and she beat us all!
When Jake bellowed out, “Way to go, Son! We’ll fry it up with the fish!” she shot Jake a look that if looks could kill he would die a million painful deaths.
She began to pet the seagull and then catching my husband headed her way, she very very very dramatically reached her arms upward and released the seagull.
She then proceeded to tell S3 not to be fishing because this is a beach. Keep in mind, he was IN THE FISHING AREA! He looked at her, looked at his daddy, looked at all of us and was just dumbfounded.
Seriously, a stranger is chewing him out and DID HE REALLY CATCH A SEAGULL?
We were all just in shock over the whole thing.
“All my life!” my husband kept saying, “I have TRIED to catch a seagull and he isn’t even trying and he catches one!”
After things had calmed down a bit, we all headed up to get ice cream. Because this day for sure called for ice cream.
When we returned from the short walk up the hill to order and walk back to our beach things, the same lady was in our stuff attempting to let S3’s fish go.
My husband wasted no time informing her that was dinner. Kudos to my husband for keeping his calm.
And that was when we decided to end our beach day.
But what a memorable day it was!
Here is our son’s version of the story:
So, I was catching carp while we were out camping with cheezit’s. I had already caught one and I was going for another one.
It took so long to catch the first one, that I had seagulls by my cheezit.
All of the sudden one seagull swooped in and took my cheezit. I was just hoping that he didn’t swallow the fishing hook along with the cheezit. So I knew I couldn’t find out with him up in the air flying away so I reeled him like a fish.
You couldn’t imagine how big of a fight a seagull puts on.
I started reeling him in and once I got him down, some lady I had no idea who’s name she is, started chewing me out about fishing as she took the fish hook from the seagulls beak.
(S4, “You missed key parts. You forgot she dramatically tackled the seagull and then let it go like a flying dove all dramatically.”)
(S3, “That’s all.”)
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