Sad sight yesterday

[bonefishdick]

"That's strange. Seals don't eat large fish, only smaller bait fish. And they don't travel to deeper waters."

I guess they only eat large fish in shallow water, that must explain why I lost two large fish to seals on the flats.

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by bonefish#^&#^&#^&#^&

"That's strange. Seals don't eat large fish, only smaller bait fish. And they don't travel to deeper waters."

I guess they only eat large fish in shallow water, that must explain why I lost two large fish to seals on the flats.

It's ridiculous. Saw a pod of 10 seals off the Race last week, with another 4-5 a few hundred yards behind them. Makes it relatively pointless to fish.

I get to the point where I put on my cheapest piece of tin, so that if I hook up, I won't mind losing it.

The biggest shame is that this combined with the plovers will drive fishermen off the beach, fewer people will buy stickers and eventually, the beaches will be closed to ORV due to a lack of funding and "lack of interest."

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by JohnnyD

It's ridiculous. Saw a pod of 10 seals off the Race last week, with another 4-5 a few hundred yards behind them. Makes it relatively pointless to fish.

I get to the point where I put on my cheapest piece of tin, so that if I hook up, I won't mind losing it.

The biggest shame is that this combined with the plovers will drive fishermen off the beach, fewer people will buy stickers and eventually, the beaches will be closed to ORV due to a lack of funding and "lack of interest."

That's how we lost the biggest stretches of beaches back in the 80s---bass stocks crashed, no one bought 4x4 passes and we lost over 20 miles of beach--which our great-grandkids won't even get back

I saw more beach-rigged campers with MBBA decals parked along the Canal this past weekend than I used to see at Long Bar back in the 80s

[OLD GOAT]

O MY GOSH---LONG BAR---MY HEART JUST SKIPED A BEAT. O well instead of fish we can tell the grandchildren about the monster fur things that are taking there place,cleaning out the bays in winter,desecrating the flats during haul out ,just think of the little kids crawling through it on the beach after paying big money to park the car and Chatham is going to pay 300million dollars for a new sewer plant for 6500 humans,BUT THEY FORGOT THE 6000 SEALS CRAPING THE SHORE THAT WON,T USE THE TOILET.