Ever Kill a seal?

[PolarBear]

I have hit several.  When I owned my shellfish business I sometimes had to push my scow about 5 miles across the bay at night.  It scares the crap out of you when you are dead tired, putting along in pitch black and you hit something that sounds and feels like a deadhead but continues to splash behind the boat.  I hit one at Steamboat Island doing about 50 in my work boat.  I though the whole transom had been ripped out it hit so hard.

[Skyvalhunter]

Haven't killed one, but I have skinned one and cut the head off of at least one other.....   

One would think if you cut the head off one its probably been killed

[Stein]

Never hit one.  A guy out at midchannel last Saturday had his salmon taken by one - either that or he hooked a submarine at 90'.

[h2ofowlr]

It's probably just fine.  A small amount of bruising and off he went. 

[Stein]

One more thing, according to proper forum etiquette, you should also post pictures of the coons and crabs if you post pics of pots.  It's just the right thing to do.

[magnanimous_j]

One more thing, according to proper forum etiquette, you should also post pictures of the coons and crabs if you post pics of pots.  It's just the right thing to do.

Agreed. Protocol is protocol.

[lokidog]

Haven't killed one, but I have skinned one and cut the head off of at least one other.....   

One would think if you cut the head off one its probably been killed

It was already dead. In fact, it died from a breach birth as I pulled the remains of the pup out of it.  I am/was the Marine Mammal Stranding Network's person to contact for reports of seals in inaccessible locations in the eastern San Juans.

[magnanimous_j]

Haven't killed one, but I have skinned one and cut the head off of at least one other.....   

One would think if you cut the head off one its probably been killed

It was already dead. In fact, it died from a breach birth as I pulled the remains of the pup out of it. 

That could not have smelled great.

[lokidog]

 

Our descriptive categories for carcasses are Dead Fresh, Dead Stinky, and Dead Ugly....  Fortunately, she was relatively Dead Fresh.

I cut the lower jaw off of a Steller Sea Lion once and swung by my neighbor's for a chat on the way home. Within 15 minutes, I had four vultures circling my truck bed looking for the smelly thing, that one was Dead Ugly.