The Northern California Fly Fishing Board

Well you see... (Don't all good stories start like that?) I was fishing New Hogan Reservoir with my friend Bill a few months back out of his boat. We had entered this one particular cove and were on the trolling motor casting lures & rubber worms up against the shore to see if there were any pre-spawn fish up yet. There were a whole bunch of geese and gosling walking around on the shoreline, when all of a sudden there was a huge commotion and two ducks came shooting overhead. Then the geese started going nuts and bolting for the water. Out of nowhere this bald eagle came swooping down and tried to grab one of the goslings. He got it a little ways off the ground before losing his grip. The gosling made it into the water with all the rest. The bald eagle stopped on the shore and stared at the geese, then at me with a pissed off look in his eye. He wasn't even 20' away!

I have seen a snake on the NF Moke with a fish in its mouth just like was described here as well.