Iowa fish launcher ensures dramatic eagle photos

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20140202/OUTDOORS/140209659/1001#iowa-fish-launcher-ensures-dramatic-eagle-photos




LECLAIRE, Iowa (AP) — The photographers who line up at a Mississippi River lock to snap images of eagles are getting help from a man with a giant slingshot that flings dead fish into the open water.

Ken Kester, who built the contraption, calls it a "fish launcher."

Kester sets up the slingshot at Lock and Dam 14, in Le Claire, Iowa. He told the Quad-City Times it can toss fish far out into the channel where the water is calmer.

"You have to get the fish out there a couple hundred feet, into that comfort zone for the eagles," Kester said.



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