Area 11, Washington, June 29th 2014
We were in the water fishing by the Girl Scout Camp at 5am. It was partly cloudy with a chance of showers, a light breeze that made the air chilly.
I had one salmon on for a short time with a Wannafish A Lure Shamrock Mojo but after it got off and I hooked a dog fish I switched to a Wannafish A Lure F24 Mojo attached to a Hot Spot Clear Jelly Crush UV Flasher. We went over by the clay banks around 7:30am. I don’t know how long it was after that but I was watching the boats trolling when Glen socks me in the arm telling me I got a fish on. I grabbed the rod and start fighting it. Then something changed and I said something is different. He asked something like “Is it taking line? “ “Yes.. SEAL.” So Glen drives the boat after the fish and seal. Cami awakened by the call to get the camera stands prepared to record all the action. This is my first seal encounter.
It takes us out toward the flats, getting in front of a boat that turns when they know we have a salmon stealing seal on. My arm is getting tired but it is coming up as I have more line in the reel now. It surfaces, but quite a ways away, and to me, the salmon looks small. Also, I can see that it had it by the head and I am afraid that it may be hooked in the lip but it also looked like it had the line around its tail (seals). Before we had time to get over to it, it dove again. Then I was able to reel it in. The SEAL let go. It was “hurry, hurry, net it!” Salmon in the boat with a torn up lower jaw and it looked big once in the boat!
Well, I had to rest after that but Glen was saying get it back in the water. As I do their rod goes off and Cami get the seal next. We are once again chasing a seal. It comes up but it doesn’t have the salmon any more and the hook is piercing its nose. It is a gray seal but the there was a brownish one that was by it, too. So they dive again and it heads toward a boat and we call out that there is a seal coming toward him and he asks “Should I bring up my line?” as he gets up to do that the line goes slack and now it is out there somewhere.
We try to get other salmon but it didn’t happen. We are at the dock around 10 and the fish checker checks my fish which has a chip in the nose. So now I have a headless salmon. I tried to weigh it when we were in the boat but there wasn’t anything to hang the fish on the hook. What was left was 29 inches long on my ice chest.
The tides were High 6:21 AM 10.1 Low 1:11 PM -1.1
I was using Izorline Platunum 30 pound test and it withstood the seal!

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