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I'm goin' down · 11-26-08, 02:16 PM

I guess you have not been at sea much. I present my case as follows:

When I was fishing for marlin off the coast of Maui, I must have seen twenty whales breach in one afternoon. I saw a school of pilot whales the same day. Talk to fishermen, and they see wild life all the time.

A dory fisherman friend in Oregon told me that once one of his trawled lines got snagged on something on the surface. He thought it was a log. When he approached it turned out to be a 20 foot plus shark that was dying, (Once he saw a 35 foot boat go down when crossing the Columbia River bar (the most dangerous strtch of water in the U.S. located at the mouth of the Columiba River. A captain told me that you can feel the River's effect many many miles out to sea) in twenty foot seas with waves breaking in channel, while his wife sat atop the fishing gear to hold it in place.)

In San Francisco Bay the sea lions have taken over a pier at fishman's wharf. In the bay, I have seen them sunning on the buoys where they bark and pose for ferry boat passengers.

Deer swim from the towns near the Golden Gate Bridge to Angel Island in SF Bay, near Alcatraz, In the 1960s a doe was taken aboard a fishing boat and saved as it was being washed to sea in the current.

Free divers have speared 1,000 pound tuna.

Subs have returned to port with sucker marks on their hulls from giant squid.

A sailboat was attacked by whales off the coast of south america.

When I lived in Saudi Arabia on a construction project, I once saw a sea snake on the surface, and small tunas would hunt in the bay at Tanajib, near Kuwait ,when the fish returned to the Gulf in spring.

I have seen sea turtles off the cost of Flordia.

Fishing off of the coast of the Indian ocean one day, I saw so many small turna on the surface that the water was churning and boiling for the entire day. That was one heck of a fishing trip, as I was with newlyweds from Australia. The groom would flash a huge grin every time he pulled one in, and his young wife, nauseous from the fish smell, the blood, and the boat's exhaust, would puke after every catch. What a honeymoon!

My son is a natural born fisherman. When he was 5 or 6, I hooked a trout. When it was shallow water ready to be netted, he jumped into the river, put his head under the water until he located the fish, and grabbed it. Later when he was asked how big the fish was he stretched his arms apart as far as they would go (maybe two feet). I told him the size of the fish was much larger in his mind than in reality (it was a 7 incher). He caught a 305 pound marlin at 13 (two marlin hit the lines simultaneously but we lost one), and in Canada he would be on a salmon line before I could even swivel my chair to see which line was in play.

Gee, I feel like fish and chips for lunch. I wonder what caused that?

Have a nice Thanksgiving. Time to hunt subs and look for mermaids.

11-26-08, 02:16 PM	#6
I'm goin' down Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Notify command we have entered the Grass Sea Posts: 2,822 Downloads: 813 Uploads: 0	beardy bob black I guess you have not been at sea much. I present my case as follows: When I was fishing for marlin off the coast of Maui, I must have seen twenty whales breach in one afternoon. I saw a school of pilot whales the same day. Talk to fishermen, and they see wild life all the time. A dory fisherman friend in Oregon told me that once one of his trawled lines got snagged on something on the surface. He thought it was a log. When he approached it turned out to be a 20 foot plus shark that was dying, (Once he saw a 35 foot boat go down when crossing the Columbia River bar (the most dangerous strtch of water in the U.S. located at the mouth of the Columiba River. A captain told me that you can feel the River's effect many many miles out to sea) in twenty foot seas with waves breaking in channel, while his wife sat atop the fishing gear to hold it in place.) In San Francisco Bay the sea lions have taken over a pier at fishman's wharf. In the bay, I have seen them sunning on the buoys where they bark and pose for ferry boat passengers. Deer swim from the towns near the Golden Gate Bridge to Angel Island in SF Bay, near Alcatraz, In the 1960s a doe was taken aboard a fishing boat and saved as it was being washed to sea in the current. Free divers have speared 1,000 pound tuna. Subs have returned to port with sucker marks on their hulls from giant squid. A sailboat was attacked by whales off the coast of south america. When I lived in Saudi Arabia on a construction project, I once saw a sea snake on the surface, and small tunas would hunt in the bay at Tanajib, near Kuwait ,when the fish returned to the Gulf in spring. I have seen sea turtles off the cost of Flordia. Fishing off of the coast of the Indian ocean one day, I saw so many small turna on the surface that the water was churning and boiling for the entire day. That was one heck of a fishing trip, as I was with newlyweds from Australia. The groom would flash a huge grin every time he pulled one in, and his young wife, nauseous from the fish smell, the blood, and the boat's exhaust, would puke after every catch. What a honeymoon! My son is a natural born fisherman. When he was 5 or 6, I hooked a trout. When it was shallow water ready to be netted, he jumped into the river, put his head under the water until he located the fish, and grabbed it. Later when he was asked how big the fish was he stretched his arms apart as far as they would go (maybe two feet). I told him the size of the fish was much larger in his mind than in reality (it was a 7 incher). He caught a 305 pound marlin at 13 (two marlin hit the lines simultaneously but we lost one), and in Canada he would be on a salmon line before I could even swivel my chair to see which line was in play. Gee, I feel like fish and chips for lunch. I wonder what caused that? Have a nice Thanksgiving. Time to hunt subs and look for mermaids. Last edited by I'm goin' down; 11-26-08 at 03:05 PM.