Crowded today. Had a vaca day so me and the missus headed for Head of the Meadow to bask my ample flesh in the sunshine while we still had some.

This was only one sandbar. And the like the rankest water with mung like slop and ick in it. Try to count them. Thses were all fisheaters if you know what I mean. Probably a few out there with some hardware on 'em.

This is where the puke icon works well.

Or a napalm drop

This is where the puke icon works well.

cant believe we traded Manny.

distemper can kill them all

To bad you couldn't "cast" some lead in that direction..:gu::fury::rocketem::rocketem::buds:

Need some of this, but with that population concentration it will probably come by itself.
The first transmission of a seal-killing virus that started in the Atlantic Ocean has been documented in a population of Pacific sea otters in Alaska. The transmission of the disease from the Atlantic Ocean to Pacific Sea is the first sign that melting Arctic ice not only affects the habitat of Arctic animals, like polar bears and seals, but also makes it easier for pathogens to travel into the area and into the Arctic wildlife.

The details of the finding appear in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, which is published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The pathogen –phocine distemper virus (PDV) - killed 30,000 harbor seals in a single outbreak in Northern Europe in 2002. The virus has also affected seal population in Canada’s Atlantic coast. The passing of the virus, which moved between seal species, took place across Arctic Eurasia or Northern Canada before it was passed on to otters living in the Alaskan Kachemak Bay.


http://arcticfocus.com/2009/06/22/seal-virus-spreads-to-arctic-otters/

We need the bounty back!!:wall:

Probably a few out there with some hardware on 'em.
Probably wearing some of mine! If you see one with a CC Tackle bottle popper in blue mackerel let me know! My daughter would like a word with him! :liquify:
We stopped at Head of the Meadow last week and saw a couple of them ba$tage$. No where near those numbers though.

Hand Grenade anyone?

molotov cocktails are much more fun, they scream like we would.

The way I've been fishing I wouldnt imagin they'll stick around long!

See any Great Whites?:)

but aren't they so cute.

The Back Beaches, kinda like welfare for seals.

No pic of the signs that tell you to stay 150' away from them under penalty of law, and that you are being watched?? And if the seals weren't there, that bar wouldn't hold fish anyways..

That's just gross. Poisoned Herring?

Holy Schnikes...:shocked:

Hey, here ya go...

:rtfm:

An Act To Provide For A Bounty On Seals. Сhap. 200

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. A bounty of two dollars shall be paid to every person who kills a seal in this commonwealth provided that within ten days thereafter he exhibits to the treasurer of any city or town the whole skin of the seal, with the nose in the same condition as at the time of the killing, and signs and makes oath to a certificate stating that he killed the seal, that it was killed in this commonwealth, and giving the date and place of the killing. The treasurer shall thereupon cause to be cut off and burned the nose of the seal, wholly destroying it, and shall pay the said bounty, taking the claimant's receipt therefor. He shall then forward to the treasurer and receiver general the certificate aforesaid with a statement that he has paid the said bounty in accordance herewith, and that the claimant personally appeared before him and made oath as aforesaid. The treasurer and receiver general shall then pay to the city or town treasurer the sum of two and one half dollars, of which sum fifty cents shall be retained by the city or town treasurer as a fee for his services hereunder.

Penalty

Section 2. Any person who shall obtain the bounty herein provided for by a false representation, and any person who brings into the commonwealth a seal, whether dead or alive which was not taken or killed in this commonwealth or in the waters thereof, for the purpose of obtaining the said bounty, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars.

Approved May 29, 1919



I'm surprised Mike P didn't come up with this...:hihi:

Hey Crafty, any idea when and why this was repealed....maybe its still on the books and everybody just assumes that its illegal to hunt them

http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/laws/mmpa/

That's when.

That used to be my all time favorite beach for swimming and fishing. Not any more. I don't even bother fishing it anymore and it's always mungy it seems, we'll that, or the plovers are nesting in the parking lot. RIP Head of the Meadow.