HMB 12/17- dead seal

I had a few hours mid morning so decided to go crabbing.  I had set my traps and anchored my zodiac about 300 or so yards west of the big yellow buoy.  I was leaning against a pontoon checking messages with a few seagulls nearby to keep me company.  The day was just lovely.  The seagulls started to fly off and landing about 30' from me and started to peck at this thing in the water.  I can see parts sticking out of the water and it looked like a garbage bag at first. I decided to start my motor up to go investigate.  It turned out to be a dead seal.  I got close enough to see the marks left by teeth as opposed to a propeller and that was enough for me to call it a day.  I motored over to the 4 kayaks I saw to warn them.  I left with 4 crab after about an hour.  Lots of shorts.

Nate

It turned out to be a dead seal.  I got close enough to see the marks left by teeth

Sea Lions did it......stop being a 

I had a few hours mid morning so decided to go crabbing.  I had set my traps and anchored my zodiac about 300 or so yards west of the big yellow buoy.  I was leaning against a pontoon checking messages with a few seagulls nearby to keep me company.  The day was just lovely.  The seagulls started to fly off and landing about 30' from me and started to peck at this thing in the water.  I can see parts sticking out of the water and it looked like a garbage bag at first. I decided to start my motor up to go investigate.  It turned out to be a dead seal.  I got close enough to see the marks left by teeth as opposed to a propeller and that was enough for me to call it a day.  I motored over to the 4 kayaks I saw to warn them.  I left with 4 crab after about an hour.  Lots of shorts.

Nate

Dude!
You mean to tell me you left all that perfectly good floating crab bait go to waste 

Should have tied some weights to it and dropped it next to your traps.

Nate was nice enough to text me a picture asking me why I wasn't out on the water today.

-Allen

WHOAH.


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OK, I fess up.  I got hungry and he got too close.  Tastes like fishy pork chops.

Nate was nice enough to text me a picture asking me why I wasn't out on the water today.

-Allen

Those are clearly sea lion bite marks. They must have mistaken it for a Mola Mola 

Thanks for sharing Nate. Mola mola bite for sure! 

BigJim wasn't in town, was he?

looks like a juvinile shark was playing...the head is still there 

Allen had warned me about the vicious sand fleas, but I never believed him till now.

I don't get it.
Why take a bite of soft flavory blubber then pass on the rest?
It kind of ticks me off. Not that I have a love for furbags, but if you are going to start in on a meal, for crying out loud, finish it!
And yea, great crab bait.

Dude!
You mean to tell me you left all that perfectly good floating crab bait go to waste 

Man... we gotta go fishing! lol

My dad wanted to use roadkill. I told him that I wasn't sure of the legalities or moral ethics of using someone's pet cat as crab bait.

To answer your PM, here are the two crabbing spots I refrenced, as good as I can tell from my somewhat reliable (or unreliable, depending on if you are the "glass half empty" or "full" type).

The red marks are the crabbing spots where I got limits on two days... the yellow dot is the big yellow boey. The red mark closest to the jetty was the rough day, and the one further out was on the day it looked like a swimming pool out there.