seals wtf... - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

Karl F · 10-11-2006, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by john hollenberg

That is true. anyone who knows me knows I never fish all night and never fish 2,3,4,5,6,or 7 nights a week.

Anyone who knows me knows what I think about seals.

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John..
anyone who knows you, is surprised you were home at the time of night you posted, and not headed out..
John sometimes forgets to go home..

Slipknot · 10-11-2006, 05:13 PM

I've invested thousands of dollars on a brand new camper in 2003 and a campsite in Wellfleet year round in order to fish weekends and long weekends and have a little place of our own on Cape Cod. I am not happy at all with the seal population and the current fishless beaches. I am seriously considering selling it but the wife and kids don't want to, maybe we should move it to Rhode Island or someplace on a pond or lake somewhere. If it were not for the canal and using my little boat in B. Harbor, I'd have zero decent bass this year. I fished the beaches enough this year that I would think I would have gotten many keeper size bass, but the largest I hooked got taken by a seal

I am sick of those searats. Maybe I'll just give up fishing

capesams · 10-11-2006, 05:20 PM

Slip...perhaps it's time to put an addition onto your boat..say 10'.that'll get you the mile off the beach that's need these days.

NIB · 10-11-2006, 05:21 PM

Well if i was walkin down the road an i saw a Giant Bear that wanted to eat me i would turn around.
U guys need to push fisheries managment to do a study on the obvious impact the seals have on the striped bass an forage fish stocks.
I know in California they would cry foul but this is the northeast where the gortons fisherman is from.It's a different world where fish an fishing can directly impact the thinning economy in New England.Seals eat fish,all kinds of fish.Where have the herring gone in only a few yrs.
There has to be a way to hurd em up an ship em back to where they came from.Man has controlled nature before.it dosen't seem right to play god but in todays world things are different.The scales have been upset.The seal is king an has no predatory fears.Great White's don't play where they roam anymore..

MakoMike · 10-11-2006, 06:42 PM

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Originally Posted by NIB

.Where have the herring gone in only a few yrs.
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To the pair trawlers!