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07-14-2007, 08:23 AM
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YEAH Mike  .. high powered rifle, night scope and silencer.. on my xmas list.... 
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07-14-2007, 09:15 AM
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Finally
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: FL
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Yeah Bruce, we really F'ed up this ecosystem. Didn't Indians hunt seals?And we drove them out. Guess what goes around comes around Huh?
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07-14-2007, 10:34 AM
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I wasted a lot of ammo and time at the P-town dump shooting rats when I coulda been making good money.  In those days I was deadly with a rifle.
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07-14-2007, 11:32 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Backbeach Jake
I wasted a lot of ammo and time at the P-town dump shooting rats when I coulda been making good money.  In those days I was deadly with a rifle.
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Dang.. another old timey Cape pass time Gone....
Nothing like a Saturday Night back then.. case a beer, bunch of guys with 22's.. (flashlights taped on the barrels with black electrical tape)
Cops would come down and watch... occassionally fire off a few rounds too ....
can ya imagine trying that now?.. they'd lock ya up.
Seals at 5 bucks a nose... bring it back.
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07-14-2007, 05:49 PM
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Soggy Bottom Boy
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Billerica, Ma.
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Well I feel your pain, I spent 3,000 buck for a house in Truro for next week only to find all the beaches closed and the ones that are open unfishable due to mung and seals, I should just stay home and work,
I learned something about fishing around seals, wait till the guy next to you have a seal on his fish and catch your own tighten your drag as tight as you can get it an start horsing your fish in. lame but if you want to eat fish you have to do it.
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07-14-2007, 11:25 AM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
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Quote:
Originally Posted by fishaholic18
Didn't Indians hunt seals?And we drove them out. Guess what goes around comes around Huh?
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Maybe you're onto something there, Dave. The local tribe here is exempt from lots of things related to fishing--like getting shellfish licenses, taking herring despite the herring ban, plus, laws prohibiting casino gambling and so on
Maybe there's a way they can still legally hunt and kill seals 
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07-14-2007, 06:33 PM
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Wipe My Bottom
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 1,911
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Karl F
YEAH Mike  .. high powered rifle, night scope and silencer.. on my xmas list.... 
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well karl, as it happens, i have a combo for sale if you're interested.

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07-15-2007, 10:34 AM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Middleboro MA
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well ya know what Bob, we have Mikey for that  he's the designated decoy 
I was doing my best yesterday reeling in bluefish, had 6 or 7 blues on, first 2 or 3 I got in with no seals because they were busy, The next 3 I had to horse them in and skim some of them across the top as a seal chased them down, one follwed it all the way to me when I was actually dumb enough to be standing in the water. One was 9 pounds or so, if that was a bass, I would not have been able to reel it in fast enough. The last one I fought from way out and battled the seal all the way to withing 15 ft of shore and I lost it, I could not believe this 5-600 pound animal would chase a measley bluefish all the way in to less than 2-3 ft of water.
I am done walking 2 miles one way for that idiotic way of fishing, all for 10-15 minutes of action and a chance a maybe a bass.
I knew Eskimos could hunt seals, but we'd have to import them I think, if any native American can do it, then I know many live around here. And actually the father of the girl who is camping with us this weekend is part Native American and he loves striped bass fishing from the beach too, hmmmmmmmmmmmmm maybe we're on to something.
I have my small skiff so after I got sealed sat. am, I took it out and caught bluefish after bluefish 4-10 lbs on light takle and lost only 6 plugs and 3 flies between 2 of us, all the while I could see a fleet of boats out on Billingsgate probably killing the bass, I guess it's time to think about a bigger boat so I can enjoy that too instead of fishing 77 degree waters in the summer.
So far my total from the beach this year stands at 2 twinkees, and I thought last year was bad, this year it's ywice as bad for me, maybe time to take up bait fishing at night again.................
Someone PLEASE get some dog distemper disease and shot it in some seals PLEASE
Last edited by Slipknot; 07-15-2007 at 11:05 AM..
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07-15-2007, 10:57 AM
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Plug Paladin
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Jackson, N.J.
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B,
I just got back from a visit to Jamestown VA. After reading accounts
of the 1st colonists tales of fishing I wonder what it was like back in 1607.
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07-16-2007, 05:22 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 4 hours from my favorite place
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$5 a nose......I could have been rich!!!!!!!!!
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Simplify.......
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07-16-2007, 07:56 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Marshfield, Ma
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I fished in Hawaii a few years back with a native Hawaiian commercial rod and reel fisherman. We caught Yellow Fin, Wahoo, Mahi, and a nice Blue Marlin on the day. If you can believe it, their dolphin problem is worse than our seal problem. A Pod of 200-300 dolphin will come through and eat everything in sight to the point where fishing is ruined for days. At the time the commercial guys would shoot 1 or 2 and the pod will take off for about a month or so. The DNR looks the other way b/c they too realize that the problem is so bad. The commercial guys pretty much police it themselves. I'm not a fan of killing a dolphin but I can also see the frustration in these guys when those pods come through and wipe everything out. They would troll skip jack tuna only to have dolphin flank the bait and wait for a strike. Once the fish was on the hook, the dolphin had an easy meal. It's their lively hood and if they don't do anything about, nobody else will. Very difficult situation as the last thing those guys want to do is kill an intelligent mammal like that.
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