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09-07-2009, 12:46 PM
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shark meets seal, off Nauset
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09-07-2009, 12:51 PM
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09-07-2009, 12:51 PM
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Registered User
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Location: Mansfield, MA
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That's the sexiest thing I've seen all day.
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09-07-2009, 12:58 PM
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Great White Scup Hunter
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In the Corner...
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This is only the beginning if the seal population keeps increasing,,,
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09-07-2009, 01:11 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Uh, in a spot....
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All the shortboard surfers should think long and hard about this picture.  |
Why even try......... 
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09-07-2009, 04:50 PM
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#6
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Soggy Bottom Boy
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Billerica, Ma.
Posts: 7,260
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Cape Fear |
Surfcasting Full Throttle
Don't judge me Monkey 
Recreational Surfcaster 99.9% C&R
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09-07-2009, 05:21 PM
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Canceled
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: vt
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Now if there was only Internet for sharks.
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Frasier: Niles, I’ve just had the most marvelous idea for a website! People will post their opinions, cheeky bon mots, and insights, and others will reply in kind!
Niles: You have met “people”, haven’t you?
Lets Go Darwin
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09-07-2009, 06:21 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Newport, RI
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Definite business opportunity for someone.
Instead of whale watching, you could take people shark watching. Surely people would pay to see a seal go down in person like they've witnessed on Shark Week.
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09-07-2009, 07:03 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Flaptail
All the shortboard surfers should think long and hard about this picture. |
and the one attached here...
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pete_G
Definite business opportunity for someone.
Instead of whale watching, you could take people shark watching. Surely people would pay to see a seal go down in person like they've witnessed on Shark Week.
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Already being discussed by some down here..
Last edited by Karl F; 03-17-2010 at 11:08 AM..
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09-07-2009, 07:08 PM
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Bass Whacker
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: NJ
Posts: 773
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Pete_G
Definite business opportunity for someone.
Instead of whale watching, you could take people shark watching. Surely people would pay to see a seal go down in person like they've witnessed on Shark Week.
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Big bluefish got him  |
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Originally Posted by Mike P
August 29--a date that lives in striper infamy.  |
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09-07-2009, 08:09 PM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 10,543
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Shark porn!
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“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” – James Madison.
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09-08-2009, 04:56 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
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I am SOOOOOOOOOO happy!!!!  |
No boat, back in the suds. 
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09-08-2009, 07:39 AM
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Cape Crusader
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Ashland, MA
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Seriously, I can't even tell you how happy this makes me. Like many other people, I have been talking about how this day would come for 6-8 years now, and to actually see the pictures of it going down is just awesome.
I can only hope assume that once a large group of these sharks realizes that there is an annual all you can eat seal buffet up here, that they'll be back time and time again to put the smack down on our pinniped friends.
Anyone who wants to start the seal killing boat tour...sign me up for your first tour.
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09-08-2009, 07:57 AM
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You rang?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Lowell
Posts: 946
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Karl F
and the one attached here...
Already being discussed by some down here..
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Spine tingling JOY!!!
Unfortunately it is just a matter of time before the authorities start hunting the sharks because of the pressure from the "Moonbats". Seals are "cute" and Sharks are not  |
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09-08-2009, 08:42 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Uh, in a spot....
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Chatham should change it's name to Amity.
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Why even try.........
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09-08-2009, 08:44 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Uh, in a spot....
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Karl F
and the one attached here...
Already being discussed by some down here..
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Christ, that isn't the ramp at Big Cliff Pond is it? Don't tell me they have gotten into there too!!! 
Way things are going who knows? |
Why even try.........
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09-08-2009, 09:29 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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shark meets surfer dude
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09-08-2009, 10:01 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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Originally Posted by Raven
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Asshat harassing a Federally protected species on camera, and leaving a few hundred dollars worth of fishing gear dangling from its mouth, all just for kicks.
No wonder surfers are almost universally hated. |
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
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09-08-2009, 10:11 AM
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lobster = striper bait
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Popes Island Performing Arts Center
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the video is horribly fake but lets not let that get in the way of whining about surfers.
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Ski Quicks Hole
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09-08-2009, 11:10 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Hyde Park, MA
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Then there's the practice of initiating a possible feeding frenzy amongst other surfers by throwing bloody meat into the surf.
He's a future Darwin Award nominee/winner if ever I saw one!
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09-08-2009, 11:35 AM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
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I know people get all giddy over the poor little seals being eaten, but you would likely need 100 sharks feeding 24/7/365 to even put a small dent in the seal population. They're here to stay unless an open season ensues at some point.
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It's not the bait
At the end of your line
It's the fishing hole
Where all the fish is blind
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09-08-2009, 11:48 AM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Somewhere between OOB & west of Watch Hill
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Back Beach
I know people get all giddy over the poor little seals being eaten, but you would likely need 100 sharks feeding 24/7/365 to even put a small dent in the seal population. They're here to stay unless an open season ensues at some point.
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Yes, but the status quo, a continually increasing seal population with no coverage / adverse coverage other than the cute little seals, is not going to do us any favors. If we can't fish the beach as in the p[ast maybe maybe the great whites can offer entertainment in the form of Pinniped Snacks. Or, with a little luck, some light gets shined on the situation. All in all, the seals are likely there to stay in large numbers REGARDLESS of what happens thanks to the Marine Mammal Protection Act thingamajig |
~Fix the Bait~ ~Pogies Forever~
Striped Bass Fishing - All Stripers
Kobayashi Maru Election - there is no way to win.
Apocalypse is Coming:
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09-08-2009, 11:51 AM
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true back beach..and the boss mans response sums it up too...
more than likely it will just be fun, for some of us to watch....in our own twisted little way...
Scotty....we may have the sixth confirmed by supper time...
if there is 5, or even 6 confirmed, i'd bet there is more...
and a hundred hungry ones would be OK with me...  |
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09-08-2009, 12:38 PM
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lobster = striper bait
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Popes Island Performing Arts Center
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Karl F
true back beach..and the boss mans response sums it up too...
more than likely it will just be fun, for some of us to watch....in our own twisted little way...
Scotty....we may have the sixth confirmed by supper time...
if there is 5, or even 6 confirmed, i'd bet there is more...
and a hundred hungry ones would be OK with me... |
South Africa has tons of Great Whites.
Doesn't seem to bother the seals much? |
Ski Quicks Hole
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09-08-2009, 01:14 PM
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yep Ted, a hundred or a thousand won't put a dent in the seals...but, will provide some great entertainment
only thing that will eventually hurt the seals, is some kind of epidemic of distemper, or something else, that will thin them way out... |
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09-08-2009, 01:30 PM
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Cape Crusader
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Ashland, MA
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I don't think anyone is really thinking the sharks will do anything to the seal population other than make for some excitement at the expense of a fairly hated adversary of the Cape Cod surf fisherman.
If there are 10 thousand seals on the Outer Cape (made up number as a stake in the ground), and there are ten sharks eating a seal a week for a month, that's only a half a percent of the population.
For me, personally, it is more:
(1) In the back of my mind, I'll always have the excitement of seeing those seals swimming 50 yards offshore and wondering if they are going to get whacked, and
(2) knowing there is at least something out there constraining what would otherwise be almost completely uninhibited growth in thier poplulation.....no matter how small that constraint may be
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09-08-2009, 01:41 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Mansfield, MA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Karl F
yep Ted, a hundred or a thousand won't put a dent in the seals...but, will provide some great entertainment
only thing that will eventually hurt the seals, is some kind of epidemic of distemper, or something else, that will thin them way out... |
Hasn't happened in S. Africa, nor San Francisco with the sea lions. These animals have lived thousands of years like this, in consolidated, high-concentration herds. I'm not holding my breath for some epidemic to occur.
An A-10 Warthog strafing the herds would be the only solution. |
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09-08-2009, 03:36 PM
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Here fishy fishy
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Whoville
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Funny, there was a brief article about the sharks on Chatham in the NY Post yesterday, I was laughing hysterically that it made the NY Post.
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09-08-2009, 05:59 PM
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OLDGOAT7205963
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: CAPE
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The funniest part of poor little seals is that Chatham is going to spend 300million dollars for a sewerage plant to keep the saltwater embayments clean all the while 6-8000 seals are crapping all over the sandbars. The population of Chatham is only 6-8000 people. It would make sense to me to have every tree hugger take a seal home with them to thin out the population
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09-08-2009, 06:06 PM
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Registered User
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Quote:
Originally Posted by OLD GOAT
The funniest part of poor little seals is that Chatham is going to spend 300million dollars for a sewerage plant to keep the saltwater embayments clean all the while 6-8000 seals are crapping all over the sandbars. The population of Chatham is only 6-8000 people. It would make sense to me to have every tree hugger take a seal home with them to thin out the population
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Orleans prolly gonna spend even more.....
Old Goat..they need some of that old cape cod common sense on them boards...but I think that has gone the way of the past too.
And they don't like questions either, we have found out over here...
they even had to come up with a "good nitrogen/bad nitrogen" answer to baffle things even more....and they keep changing info...
typical govt. project....just pay pay pay and shut up...
I still have not figured out why we been pumping everything into Skaket Marsh the last 20 years...great place to build a chit plant.....
and the clamming went straight to hell from Rock Harbor alll the way down thru Brewster right after.... and some strange looking grasses grew quick..
Now we are gonna sewer even more into there..
pump the chit outta the Pleasant Bay side over to the CCBay side...
injuneers and environutz is amazing sometimes....
But...back to Seals and their poo...
gonna be a trainload more of it coming, thats for sure. |
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