Who did It

[buckhorn2]

Came in from fishing sea bass and ling cod at westport and the biologist came down to check our fish. She said did you see the sea lion someone shot and pointed over to the dock. There sat a half dozen sea lions and one had an arrow sticking out of it;s side and people were taking pictures off it and she said the wardens had been down checking it out. Last week we saw one grab a loon and shook it and then ate it so they must be hungry.

[littlebuf]

that must be one funny looking elk

[Wenatcheejay]

Well, technically there is no sea lion hunting section. 

[coldsteel3d]

Doesn't that make them open season? 

[Huntbear]

only if no one is looking and you were not dumb enough to leave your fingerprints on the arrow!!!!!! 

[dbllunger]

That is terrible, illegal, and should never happen!!!  Those seals are a protected species!!!

[fisheral87]

They should have $100 special tags. In flow Might save some of those positions in the department. Those damn things are all over and have no fear of humans. Bad deal. Shouldn't have happened but they should re-adjust the regs. and open it up.

[heavy hauler]

not even going to touch this one.....

[buckhorn2]

They had it on chanell 4 news and pictures of it in our yesterdays paper. Yesterday I watched 2 national marine fisherys officers try to use a long pole with line on the end with a slip knot try to put it over the arrow and try to pull it out. It really got mad when they got close and it looked like that if it had legs you would;nt want to get close. It had been branded so must have been up to bonnieville.

[actionshooter]

I personaly don't care for the buggers, but that makes us look really bad

[Pathfinder101]

...sounds like a suicide to me...

[PolarBear]

Was it a camo Gold Tip with flo green and yellow fletchings?  Nope, not me. (this time)

[joebear]

you guys really joke about this stuff on here. But you dont think about how this will affect our hunting!!
Just because there is an arrow in this sealion that will mean that all bow hunters are at fault and now look out. The seasons will
get shorter and sooner or later there will be no archery season. It was little things like this that made WA loose there
hounds and baiting rights. Do we blame it on the not heads or the ones jokeing and not takeing care of our rights. You make the call!

[Little Dave]

The truth is that the sea lions are trouble on the Columbia and the protection is excessive.  Should governance accidentally find the light of reason someday we may have archery tags for seals.

Food lines are long, could have been for dinner.  My uncle tried something cooked in seal fat up in Kotzebue.  Apparently, it's a flavor that takes some effort to appreciate.

[addicted]

http://www.nwcn.com/statenews/washington/stories/NW_052509WAB-sea-lion-shot-SW.171abbff.html

there is a video of the new report.