Not quite as fondly as you do rumor has it. Got the smell off yet??????? Or did ya have to take a wide spectrum antibiotic.
No, I'm just talking about the current overpopulation of seals. I have a boat sitting at Terminal Island. Every time I go out they hang out and wait to steal a fish. Previous years hooping they tear up bait and nets. You must use bait cages for this problem. Just wait for natures cure, STARVATION. All we need is a year that lacks bait, mackerel ext and they will be washing up on So Cal beaches dead. When I dove Santa Barbara Island years ago they were as thick as the pic I posted. Newport Harbor has had problem, they have sunk boats, people on moorings put up netting to keep them off. I was fishing on anchor off PV this year and had one trying to board my boat. Had to yell and flap my arms to keep it off.
It is legal to shoot them with paint ball guns or a slingshot when they bother you.
Massive die off coming in the next few years, believe it.
We need more big sharks.
DR
Well, that's not exactly how you started off your post but let’s not dwell on that.
For the record I get what you’re saying, I know populations needs to be thinned out, I know they are nuisances to you guys lucky enough to have boats docked, and I have had my fair share of fish stolen by them. The only reason I made my comment to DV is that there have been stories running for the last two weeks about dead sea lions washing up in Malibu with gunshot wounds.
I have been fishing and shooting literally since I could hold a rod and pull a trigger and I have never seen the kind of pressure we are seeing now from groups trying to close off fishing grounds, and strip 2A rights. Joking or not, posting about shooting sea lions on a public forum reflects badly on both fishermen and gunnies at a time when we can hardly afford any more negative press.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headline...-malibu-coast/