Worst fishing story!!!!

[hawgsquatch]

Here is a west coast nightmare for you.

Was commercial fishing on a drag boat many years ago. We must have got him when we were dropping the trawl but we got a 1000 lb bull sea lion in the bag and dragged him around for 12 hours at 600 fathoms. There his 40 percent fat carcass started to aneroebically decompose immediately. We found him in the bag and usually it is no big deal. Hook him up wit the deck boom and swing him out of the bag, fill out the paperwork and report him to NOAA. The deck boom broke. Nice sunny day and 1200 lbs of dead seal meat sitting on the deck rapidly ruining 20,000 lbs of sablefish. But we came up with a solution. We keep a chainsaw on the boat for cutting up snag logs that get caught up in the net. I pitchforked, puked and almost died but in no more than three of four hours we had that 1800 lb sea lion out of the net and the deck cleared. I just went and puked a bit as I wrote this up.

[swamp snorkler]

Originally Posted by hawgsquatch

Here is a west coast nightmare for you.

1000 lb bull sea lion

1200 lbs of dead seal meat

1800 lb sea lion

It grew?

[hawgsquatch]

Originally Posted by swamp snorkler

It grew?

You shovel you some rotted sea lion sludge out of a pitching boat after being up for 14 hours and see if it dont grow! lol!

A few years back took the family to the beach off the Lost Coast and my dog found a long expired Sea lion and rolled in the greasy mess. If momma had'nt been along I would shot him. I dry heaved the whole way home with my head hanging out of the window, kids screaming and crying, eyes watering. If I had known she was going to divorce me I would have shot him. The smell is a combination of roadkill and that one fish that fell behind the seat in the boat and sat out all weekend, indescribable.