The herons around my place must be pretty tame. I saw one the beginning of the week standing at the edge of the pond so I fired a round to scare it off and it flew to a nearby ditch. The next day it was back again so I fired into the rip-rap close to it and this time it flew out of site. The following evening it (maybe there are several) was near the pond and looked to have a piece of plastic stuck around it's neck. I was thinking "serves it right" but I took out my .223 and looked through the scope to find that it had a large silver fish in it's mouth. I encouraged the GBH to drop the fish with a little noise and flying lead then went to see what I had lost. Laying on the bank was a 14" shad and a 12" bass. I guess it was doing me a favor in this case. I haven't seen it for a couple of days.
No GBH were harmed in the making of this story.
