couple years ago I found myself on one of those puget sound tour boats that feed you a dinner and you ride around the sound with 50 or so other people...
anyways I was amazed how much those boats chased the orca's and how close they got. They'd really race and jog around trying to get in position for the tourists. I could see half a dozen boats all doing the same thing.
Kind of cool I guess, but I prefer them a good ways from me while I'm fishing salmon and not swimming all around my boat all day long 
Orca's can sure mess up a good troll
Yes, the whale boats do seem to be on them almost constantly. I wish they would shut their engines off when drifting nearby like all of us smaller boats did. The first encounter was much more enjoyable being able to actually hear the whales vocalizing.
The funny thing with them and fishing is that we always seemed to catch more fish as the Orcas rolled through, probably because they were following the big school of fish I guess.
There is a group that wants to close down all of SW San Juan Island to boat traffic within a half mile of shore, including sail and kayaks, idiots... anyways, they would accomplish the goal of less harassment IMO if they simply put a speed limit of 5 mph within 1/2 mile of shore. I'd be fine with that as we could still fish and the whale boats wouldn't be buzzing them all day in there. There would still be the NA boats blowing through the pods though, unfortunately.
