Hungry Seal Shelter Cove

Fished Shelter Cove this weekend. Saturday caught some blacks and a ling and a couple dungies. When I pulled my yak onto the shore and looked at my stringer half of the ling was gone.
Went back today for the same stringer but kept the fish on the boat. They are so sneaky. Never even saw him.

Fished Shelter Cove this weekend. Saturday caught some blacks and a ling and a couple dungies. When I pulled my yak onto the shore and looked at my stringer half of the ling was gone.
Went back today for the same stringer but kept the fish on the boat. They are so sneaky. Never even saw him.

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Cool pictures.

Lucky that it didn't come back for seconds...

You're lucky DFW didn't check your ling when you landed. I'm pretty sure it was undersized 😉

That looks like a pretty clean cut for a seal or sealion.

That looks like a pretty clean cut for a seal or sealion.

I had the same thought.

That looks like a pretty clean cut for a seal or sealion.

I had the same thought.

Me three!

Crazy. Good reminder not to dangle fish.

Nice seeing you at the ramp, Mike.

Keeping a stringer in the water is a potential disaster.  I think you're fortunate to have not been flipped or worse.  Add me to the list of those who think it was a shark that cleaned that ling off.  Fish on stringers in the tank well with wet burlap over them works just fine even on sunny days.

Safe travels.   

I'm on the "that was a shark" list too.
dang!

The radius of the bite could have been from large sea lion, but it’s so clean that maybe it was small shark. Thresher? From what I’ve seen of sea lions, they tend to tear and rip with lots of dangly bits.

Nice seeing you at the ramp, Mike.

Keeping a stringer in the water is a potential disaster.  I think you're fortunate to have not been flipped or worse.  Add me to the list of those who think it was a shark that cleaned that ling off.  Fish on stringers in the tank well with wet burlap over them works just fine even on sunny days.

Safe travels.   

Definitely it's a shark bite.

I bet it was a shark as well. If there was a seal, or sea lion in the area I think it would of been noticed. They tend to pop up a lot when they are around.

maybe it was small shark. Thresher?

Thresher mouth is pretty small - bait eater...

Mike was fishing in tight by the point, and that's where the landlord often hangs out.

At one point yesterday Yaad saw something near us and tried to point it out, but it was gone before we could get eyes on it.  We were a mile offshore.

maybe it was small shark. Thresher?

Thresher mouth is pretty small - bait eater...

Mike was fishing in tight by the point, and that's where the landlord often hangs out.

At one point yesterday Yaad saw something near us and tried to point it out, but it was gone before we could get eyes on it.  We were a mile offshore.

with the curvature of the bite - how bid would you expect that one was?