Mean as suckers too.

When I was a new Green Hand Years ago we had a bunch of pelicans on the boat landing stinking it up. The Operator told me "Geaux down there and run dem nasty *** birds off Tboy." So I grabbed a deck brush and headed down the stairs to the boat landing. I thought I would just scare them off when I got down there. LOL NOPE! Those big old suckers spread thier wings and snapped those big beaks at me and ran me off. That old man was laughing so hard I thought he was going to have a heart attack.

Their beaks are soft. Don't hurt.
I got bit a few times while trying to clean fish last year.

Pluck it, gut it, throw it in a pot of roux and you have a seafood gumbo.

pelicans are good to eat just have to know how to cook um. go get you a 2x12 about 2 foot long and get a piece with the sap coming out. season the bird with tonys and stuff it with garlic onions bellpepper and mushrooms. make a open fire and set it up where the 2x12 and bird are about 16inches above the coals. cook for about 2 hours and when its done throw the bird in the trash and eat the 2x12.

Pelicans
 

On New Years eve we had a pelican follow us to every spot we went to. He would circle and land very close to the boat. When we made a cast his mouth would spring open as if he were getting fed:trolls:...then noticed he was banded...this guy must have had a lot of human contact, pretty neat stuff!!

For some reason I seen about 20 of em way up here on the river yesterday, hardly see em past Prien Lake..

If I were a betting man I'd say they are Refugees from spill....

The will dive and hit your topwater quick, fast and in a hurry too.

Not as tasty as Bald Eagle

You got that right...Love me some of dat

I wonder what the legalities are if you take one to a taxidermist?? I've always wanted a Pelican mount for a camp. That'd be prety cool.

Whe I worked at Calcasieu Locks they had one dead laid up on the rocks. He had a band on his foot but it didnt have a phone number.