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Message: [QUOTE="RockyMTblue2, post: 2003977, member: 250"] This could be an entertaining diversion. Let's see. Mine: In a drift boat fishing trout on the Lower Madison in MT with my son in law in early summer a few years ago. About a mile upstream from where Cherry Creek enters for those who might know. It's pretty wide and shallow there. Couple of hundred yards ahead of us a big hawk swooped down and caught one of our fish! Big hawk and a really nice fish. The hawk had a real struggle to gain altitude but eventually pulled it off and disappeared behind a bluff on the west side of the river. We admired what we'd just witnessed. Less than a minute later the hawk was back, scrambling east like mad. A few seconds behind comes this Bald Eagle, rapidly closing the distance. The hawk, sensing the need for self-preservation more than dinner, let the fish out of its talons. The eagle had that fish in a second in mid-air and went on its way. What I wouldn't give to have that on video. [/QUOTE]