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willardguy
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anyone ever lost a nice fish to a sea lion?
you gotta watch this!
http://www.petethomasoutdoors.com/2013/10/crafty-sea-lion-sw...
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Floatflyer
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As a matter of fact, yes! Wife and I were fly lining sardines when one got bit and we cranked on the fish for half hour or so without seeing
anything. Not sure what it was so we kept cranking and then had to start following the fish to keep line on the reel. After awhile it started coming
up and was swimming about 10 ft deep abeam the boat, just pacing us!
I was pretty excited by this time and then the wife, who was driving, saw a large sea lion coming from in front of the boat towards my fish!! Next
thing I know the sea lion and tuna go straight down. I am at a loss for what to do so we do nothing. A minute or two later the line starts coming up
but aways away. I tell the wife to go where the line is coming up and she puts the boat in gear and heads that way, slowly. I yell, "hit it" and she
does with me falling on my butt in the back of the boat.
Sea lion comes up and boat is going at it, sea lion and tuna go down, the sea lion grabs the tuna just in front of the tail. This repeats about 5
times before the line finally breaks off. I once got the tuna within 10 ft or so and had the gaff out before the sea lion came back and grabbed my
fish. I estimate this was a 100# yellowfin and wife agrees. Biggest tuna I every almost caught. I hate sea lions and will hold a grudge forever.
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DENNIS
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Used to net fish off Dana Point and watching a net come over the bow-roller with a sparkling silver White Sea bass rising to the surface only to have
a Lobo come in and rip the belly out of the fish was disheartening...to say the least.
Bye bye to a 100 dollar bill, and that was in the 70's. A lotta money back then.
A lotta Pacifico today.
"YOU CAN'T LITTER ALUMINUM"
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woody with a view
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no! last time in Asuncion we were trolling and a smart ass'd seal comes up and gets snagged in the flipper. it took awhile and a lot of patience on
the seal's part, but i finally got the filet knife beween his finger bones and cut him free. Zoe and Bia looked like they were gonna get sick after
the ordeal!
it was a $25 Rapala, fer kri-sakes!!!
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captkw
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FURBAGS
that's what the fishing crowd calls them and they are fed. protected..why too many around calif`..about 4/5 tears ago soo many climbed on a NOAA that
the pwr heads got saltwaterd....Ouch !! That's your and mine tax money..
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dorado50
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If I know there's a sea lion around I will put and keep rod tip below water hoping it will not see my caught fish. If a lion does see and begins to go
after caught fish I will release drag and let fish swim freely hoping to avoid capture. If at all possible its good to use boat as a way to distract
sea lion, by turning boat in circles overhead of the known sea lion........
One of these three tactics has always worked for me at some point.
[Edited on 10-25-2013 by dorado50]
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captkw
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we have a big issue with around here..Monterey bay calif
while salmon fishing its been a nightmare for years...I don't fish near the fleet or I also don't troll much for salmon and sometimes if I'm worried
about a furbag,,,, with a fish hanging I start one of my outboards (or motor) that's a reel good trick to keeping them away from YOUR dinner...works
100 percent of the time for me.......K&T
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willardguy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by captkw
while salmon fishing its been a nightmare for years...I don't fish near the fleet or I also don't troll much for salmon and sometimes if I'm worried
about a furbag,,,, with a fish hanging I start one of my outboards (or motor) that's a reel good trick to keeping them away from YOUR dinner...works
100 percent of the time for me.......K&T |
xlnt tip cappy, lost too many salmon to the dogs!
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woody with a view
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i still have a handful of seal bombs, made in guatemala!
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vacaenbaja
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Fishing out of Asuncion once with Manuel Arce. We were catching some big
40lb class yellowtail. My friend hooks one of these monsters up and had a very lenghty hard fought battle with the fish. It appeared that the fish was
whipped as he was finally gaining line when all of a sudden the fish got a second wind and started out on a frantic run followed shortly by a
max bend on his fast tapered rod. The seal was on. He slab half the fish
and then let go. As this fish was huge there still was about 20lbs of fish
left on the other side. My friend fliped his two speed to high and reeled as fast as he could. got the fish about 15 feet from the boat when the seal
caught up and slabed the other half leaving him just the head.
Manuel then said "throw him those three big bonito that you caught.
I was told by the biologist that after these sea lions get about 50 pounds
of fish they will swim off to the rocks to doze and leave you alone."
Worked like just liked he said. Some where in Manuels zillions of photos he
has the picture of what was left of the fish.
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captkw
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my last one stolen !!
I had landed..threw a rope thru the gills and was cleaning it ..my budy at the front of the boat said something and I looked and said WHAT ?? at that
second my hand slams down (holding rope) to the gunnel as a furbag takes off with MY salmon !! I think you could have heard my yell all the way to
BCS...now with my caterman I can clean them in the engine well between my mecury twostroke outboards....that's was almost 30 years ago..my running a
motor trick has worked reel good since then.....K&T
[Edited on 10-25-2013 by captkw]
[Edited on 10-25-2013 by captkw]
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captkw
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Seal bombs
I have One left that I just cant part with....thanks DFG.ca.
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acadist
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does a bear sh*t in the woods?  
Dave
I moved to CO and they made me buy a little rod to make it feel like a real fish
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willardguy
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so far not one nomad calling boolchit on the video! 
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Barbareno
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Timo1 was not impressed. What a fight though.
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Salmon fishing out of Fort Bragg, Bodega Bay, San Francisco, Santa Cruz and Half Moon Bay, I, at many occasions, got the hookup halfway to the boat
when one of those barkers beat me to the meat and left me with the head.
They even used to get my perch when surf fishing of Jenner.
Used to know some party boat captains who carried a 22 on board and shoot at those buggers when they started following the boat.
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It's happened to me dozens of times while salmon fishing in the NW but the most memorable time is when i was fishing with an amigo for yellowfin tuna
in juan arce's boat in asuncion....hooked a big tuna on a cedar plug and a lobo grabbed the tuna and would not let go...juan followed it for a long
long time as he didn't want to lose that damn cedar plug....we were actually cruising away from the fish and it was making us crazy....we finally
broke it off on purpose so we could get back fishing...sorry juan!!...i brought him back several plugs on our next visit.
dyslexia is never having to say you\'re yrros.
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Fishing the Gordo a few years back, we had caught a few nice barrilete on the way out, which our capitan wanted to save. After trolling for a while,
we hooked up on a tuna. While fighting this fish, the biggest knot head I have ever seen, suddenly appears out of nowhere and starts going after the
fish. The capitan grabbed one of the barrilete's and thru him as far away from our fish as possible. It worked!! The knot head went for the
barrilete, and we got our tuna in. Luckily we had about 5 of the barrilete's, and the trick worked all but once. So we ended the day with some
tuna, but each fish was a double fought battle. 
I yam what I yam and that\'s all what I yam.
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captkw
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steller seals
Just yesterday NOAA (wasn't that a guy with a big boat with lots of animals?) declared stellers are off the protected list...but that's on the east
coast..here on the best/west coast are waaaayy too many furbags and they eat around 50 lbs of fish a day and are not shy !! and are a pain in the
a$$...drives me nuts when these tourist go " oh, look the cute seal" Ya, right..a bud of mine was sitting on the gunnel on a infaltable and one came
up and bite him on the a$$ 12 stiches later..they are a problem that the feds are doing nothing about...
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| Quote: | Originally posted by captkw
Just yesterday NOAA (wasn't that a guy with a big boat with lots of animals?) declared stellers are off the protected list...but that's on the east
coast..here on the best/west coast are waaaayy too many furbags and they eat around 50 lbs of fish a day and are not shy !! and are a pain in the
a$$...drives me nuts when these tourist go " oh, look the cute seal" Ya, right..a bud of mine was sitting on the gunnel on a infaltable and one came
up and bite him on the a$$ 12 stiches later..they are a problem that the feds are doing nothing about... |
it's their ocean! let the fur bags be! i think they are cute and make the ocean a much more interesting place.
you fishermen that want to kill sea lions should kill humans first, as humans (especially humans driving trawlers and seiners) take much more fish
than sea lions!
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