Too Many Seals

[Rappin Mikey]

I had one take a fish well into 30# range 3 feet in front of me last year.

[Blitzseeker]

You will not catch a bass big enough that they won't eat it off your line....simple as that.

I agree with the timeline stated above.....on the back beach they were a novelty item for a while. Around 2002 a guy I fish with had a seal grab a fish from the end of his line and we all laughed at what we thought was the story of a lifetime.

We're not laughing now......

[RoyL]

They drive me nuts...last year I lost to Beachmasters fishing in the dark on Chatham...even at night they still do the same thing. There is no winning.

[Swimmer]

I have seen the big behemoths off the beach at Wasque tossing around bass and albies like they were basketballs. Coming up underneath them and snouting them into the air and catching them.

Imagine the PETA protests that would occur if a bill/law was introduced to cull the herd to preserve the rec/comm fishing seasons.

Imagine the skyrocketing rifle/shotguns sales that would occur. I can hear it now. Couple of dudes in thier pickups, parked on a dirt road next to some cranberry bog at the end of deer season talking about when seal season opens, and getting real excited.

[STREETFIGHT]

i watched 3 of the fish eating bastages get "re-introduced" to the wild in charlestown sunday morning- they got a free ride down from New Jersey...

[OLD GOAT]

The Canadians have noticed that the seals rip out and eat the bellies of cod fish. I was wondering if it is the same for bass and other fish. The fish scientists never seam to find any large bones as i understand it. Maybe the seals just want the livers.

[2na]

They eat the whole friggin thing - small ones whole, big ones they strip the fillets then swallow the rack. I've had them come along and grab the racks that I have dumped and suck them down. They won't eat bluefish heads, though. I don't know if it is because of the teeth or the plugs sticking out.

The reason the belly was torn out of the blue in the vid is when the seal seized it that's where he got his mouth around, and in the subsequent tug of war the belly tore out and the seal was content with that mouthful (for the minute).