LECLAIRE, Iowa — 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 ...

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.

Photographers launch fish into the Mississippi River to try to attract eagles, but some say baiting the birds could have negative impacts. One of the most popular spots to look at and photograph ...

LE CLAIRE, Ia. – 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 ...

In this Jan. 29, 2014 photo Ken Kester of Clinton, Iowa, uses an oversized homemade slingshot that flings dead fish into the open water for Bald Eagles to to feed on at Lock and Dam 14 on the ...

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 ...