Competition with an Apex predator...Darwin law needs to be more affective with idiots.

Read the article where man tries to interven with an Orca feeding on a seal. Hope the Link downloads.  Also interested to see other opinions.

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https://www.outdoorhub.com/news/2017/03/06/video-man-attempts-rescue-seal-hungry-killer-whale/

Wow...smart folks there.

Awesome video, stupid man

It's not going to work against an Orca, but I think a harpoon like device is going to be mandatory for all saltwater fishing from here on out...I'd really prefer not to carry while out in a kayak...lol.

It seems like the folks in WA, OR, CA get more sea lion harassment than we do up here.  I am actually surprised I haven't heard of more sea lions trying to take over a convenient floating haul out (kayak) guarded only by a tiny soft skinned mamal (me).

Article on a sealion attack in Alaska (Sand Point)
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/wildlife/2017/03/06/sea-lion-boards-fishing-boat-attacks-fisherman-in-sand-point/

It's not going to work against an Orca, but I think a harpoon like device is going to be mandatory for all saltwater fishing from here on out...I'd really prefer not to carry while out in a kayak...lol.

It seems like the folks in WA, OR, CA get more sea lion harassment than we do up here.  I am actually surprised I haven't heard of more sea lions trying to take over a convenient floating haul out (kayak) guarded only by a tiny soft skinned mamal (me).

Article on a sealion attack in Alaska (Sand Point)
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/wildlife/2017/03/06/sea-lion-boards-fishing-boat-attacks-fisherman-in-sand-point/

I've been charged by a sea lion before.  Biggest one I ever saw, fishing cape mendocino in Humboldt county California which is probably the most remote spot on the pacific in the lower 48.  It had been barking at me and circling me for a couple minutes when it started full at me.  It was only a feint and he dove at the last second, but it sure got the blood pumping.  I was armed with a fish bonker.   Planned on aiming for the nose.  I'm glad I never got to find out if that would do the trick, those sea lions can grab hold of you and drag you under for good if they feel like it.

I think Rudy and Crashes comments are hitting home on the idea that concerns me... Negatively habutuating marine animals that we have coexistence quite well in the past. I think a lot of there behaviors stem from multiple decades when these mammals feared and gave a respected distance to humans. Though no orca attacks are recorded in North America, sea lion harassment to surfers as well as kayekers is documented in videos on the internet.
Multiple videos and stories showing sealions stealing fish off kayaks are an example of habitation that should be a concern to all.
Though not in a boat, I have been harassed by a large bull sealion in Sitka, Ak (I bust have been on his sunning rock because I did not have any fish on the bank).


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I've had a sea lion steal a stringer of silvers that was hanging off the stern of my old powerboat while fishing the Kenai. This enters my mind each time I hang a king or a halibut off the side of my kayak as it bleeds out. Probably only a matter of time before one of those big bastards gets brave.


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New read on Sealion attack.
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/wildlife/2017/03/06/sea-lion-boards-fishing-boat-attacks-fisherman-in-sand-point/

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New read on Sealion attack.
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/wildlife/2017/03/06/sea-lion-boards-fishing-boat-attacks-fisherman-in-sand-point/

LOL. 

"I had orange oilskins on," he said. "He [sea lion] didn't think I was a piece of fish."

And just exactly what color is a chunk of salmon?  Must be color blind. 

New read on Sealion attack.
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/wildlife/2017/03/06/sea-lion-boards-fishing-boat-attacks-fisherman-in-sand-point/

LOL. 

"I had orange oilskins on," he said. "He [sea lion] didn't think I was a piece of fish."

And just exactly what color is a chunk of salmon?  Must be color blind. 

The sea lion was just pissed at the guy for taking all his food it was out of revenge

It seems like the folks in WA, OR, CA get more sea lion harassment than we do up here.  I am actually surprised I haven't heard of more sea lions trying to take over a convenient floating haul out (kayak) guarded only by a tiny soft skinned mamal (me).

They're on their way.  I thought it was posted somewhere in the forum, but I can't find it again, where someone put up the numbers showing that since the Federal protections went into place, there are now many times more seal lions along the West Coast then there had been at anytime in historic records.