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Agree about the absurd poor fishing tide in and month out --on the outer Cape beaches. The ONE TIME this past season I got in front of a school of "decent" sized bass (i.e. meaning larger than the standard 16-23 inches out there) in the middle of the night, I lost four fish in a row to seals before I could get the fish out of the surf onto the beach. I was actually afraid to cast and hook another fish for a more than a precious hour--and this precious hour is right in the middle of a beach blitz that I hunt for trip after trip. So an 18 fish tide ends up an 8 fish tide, four lost rigs and line, and rerigging down time because of the damned seals. That is not fishing for me; I am not planning to buy a Race sticker next year.
We can only hope that some natural contagion, viral or bacterial, will get into the colony and decimate this seal population. Their sheer numbers are causing the seals to expand their geographic territory; and if something doesn't change, you might find them in every body of salt water that you fish.
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