Bloody Seals!!!

Afternoon folks,
Just in from a session, bathed, gear rinsed and now chilling to some good music.

A wee story for you..

Yesterdays session was great, 6 nice fish, saw larger fish to the back of shoals and tbh yesterday was the most fish I had ever seen.
The swell was perhaps one to 2 meters at times and due to the state my stomach was in I was sick 5 times while out there.

The swell had dropped off a it today so I took the afternoon off the catch the high tide. On arriving at the site I noticed about 14 seals in the bay and hoped they wouldn't notice me popping in off the point..

After about 5 mins in the water a grey seal about the length of me decided to show face.. I didn't think much of it as they normally bugger off after 10 mins...
This cute annoying bugger followed me for over two hours, nibbling at my fins and hiding from me!
When I'd dive down (7-10 meters) he'd disapear, only for me to spot him directly next to me once I had settled in the kelp. It was literally less than a meter from me. Gazing at me with his big eyes... he'd then follow me back up and the same would happen over and over again....

I'm blaming the seal on the distinct lack of filletable sized fish.. fish are skittish enough when I swim down yet alone when a big sleek torpedo is shooting around the place.
I managed three fish today, one of which was stolen off my smb with only a head left!!

On a plus note an old friend of mine joined me about half way through. This was the first time I had been out with another spearo. His fish were however safe on his belt stringer...

To put the final nail is the seal lined coffin on the way in I felt a 'tug tug' on my smb line (fish were ontop of buoy) then slack.. The bloody seal had bit through my smb line right at the buoy. Frantic swim back so it didn't disapear in the current and wind, I found the seal playing with the line..

Jeese there like puppies!!

Anyways...

Hope you're all well..
Suggestions on appropriate SMB line are welcome... Washing line perhaps?

We certainly have an abundance of them.

Just coalies and pollack so far. Oh and a doggy
Not seen anything substantial yet either.
Fished a good few locations but these havn't been known as 'fishy locations' by the secretive angline fraternity up here...
I fly fish and have had coalies up to 5 1/2 on the fly but this was in a sea loch thats connected to the se by three 1/2ft pipes.. fish go in and never come out. There's cod up to 20lbs in there aswell. Jan had an 18lb cod on the fly!

We have quite two wrecks that are accessible. Done one but didn't see anthing but as my down time is improving I shall return soon. The second certainly has fish as told by my buddy. As a shizzle lots of crabs!

Love this malarky.

Aye been using that line, snapped it a few times aswell.
Just remembered (due to your recomendation) we have a chandlers with spool upon spool of plastic line. Stiff slidy stuff that's hell to tie..
Might check it out tomorrow

Cheers

'IF only....' ?
What happened to them Spaghetti? I absolutely love them. Sadly many up here don't.
Salmon farmers and fisherman shoot them. I think it's wrong to shoot them.
Only if their population is imeding on themselves (getting too large) or fishstocks of rarer species.. But if it is man that has had an impact on those stocks then we have no right to intervene.

I was warned by my girlfriends father about swimming too far out from their house as the people that own a salmon farm shoot the seals from over 200meters.. Here's hoping they see my SMB.

Cheers for the link.
That's really sad.. It is terrible that we are such a destructive species..
The number of them is shocking... <400...

Here walking from my house to the centre of town I can often see up 60 in a short space. Half way to town centre I will come across another bit where the biggest seals imaignable sunbath on the rocks..

It's lovely here..
Bit cold for some though