Originally Posted by JARblue

Yeah, my experience is with mostly dead ones. However, I've had to chase a barely wounded one down before. Talk about frightening. I wasn't even 10 years old and my grandpa was encouraging me to do it. I ended up using my jacket to smother it when I jumped on it. As soon as I found the neck, I stood up and gave it a good crack with the jacket still around the bird. Its wingspan was significantly longer than I was tall, but from that day on I was never remotely frightened by anything like that again

Epic fish story! That is awesome