Ever Kill a seal?

[trophyelk6x6]

Grew up on the salt water but this weekend was a first. My wife and I were crabbing and coon shrimping and had my 8 pots finally off the boat.  PS I need a bigger boat. So it was nice out and wife wanted to go for a ride into Olympia's port while the pots soaked. When we left we were running about 25 mph and a seal pops up in front of us, looks at me and doesn't move.  This takes only a few seconds and slam slam he hits about mid way under my boat and we hear two quick thugs on the boat and then the final.....the 150 Suzuki hits him and I can feel it thru the throttle. WTF?  Never had a seal not take off in milliseconds and this one actually popped up and looked me and whammoo.  My wife about crapped her pants and said do you think he is alive and I said no, once I knew the outdrive hit him I figured he was crab bait. I know they aren't the smartest, We hooked two this year on jigs up in neah bay while sea bass fishing.  I hope PETA doesn't come after me. 

[Chinook73]

I hope you Suzuki is ok.  Thank you for saving a bunch of Salmon!

[jdb]

My favorite joke...,. A baby seal walks into a club..,

[bowhunterforever]

I hope you Suzuki is ok.  Thank you for saving a bunch of Salmon!

[Blacktail Sniper]

Grew up on the salt water but this weekend was a first. My wife and I were crabbing and coon shrimping and had my 8 pots finally off the boat.  PS I need a bigger boat. So it was nice out and wife wanted to go for a ride into Olympia's port while the pots soaked. When we left we were running about 25 mph and a seal pops up in front of us, looks at me and doesn't move.  This takes only a few seconds and slam slam he hits about mid way under my boat and we hear two quick thugs on the boat and then the final.....the 150 Suzuki hits him and I can feel it thru the throttle. WTF?  Never had a seal not take off in milliseconds and this one actually popped up and looked me and whammoo.  My wife about crapped her pants and said do you think he is alive and I said no, once I knew the outdrive hit him I figured he was crab bait. I know they aren't the smartest, We hooked two this year on jigs up in neah bay while sea bass fishing. I hope PETA doesn't come after me.

Maybe don't post about it on an open forum?   

[PlateauNDN]

Hopefully your boat is okay.

[SemperFidelis97]

My favorite joke...,. A baby seal walks into a club..,

 

[Boss .300 winmag]

My favorite joke...,. A baby seal walks into a club..,

 

What's he drinking Bloody Marie's ?

[carpsniperg2]

My favorite joke...,. A baby seal walks into a club..,

 

What's he drinking Bloody Marie's ?

Club soda? 

[Fl0und3rz]

I hope you Suzuki is ok.

You might want to check for damaged seals.

[Bullkllr]

I hope you Suzuki is ok.

You might want to check for damaged seals.

I know a good joke about damaged or "ruptured" seals. Not sure it's clean though.

[Cylvertip]

I hope you Suzuki is ok.

You might want to check for damaged seals.

I know a good joke about damaged or "ruptured" seals. Not sure it's clean though.

"No, it's just ice cream from across the street"     

[Fl0und3rz]

My favorite joke...,. A baby seal walks into a club..,

 

What's he drinking Bloody Marie's ?

Then it's across the street for a hickory haircut.

[lokidog]

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

[hunthard]

Wouldn't lose any sleep over it.

[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.