Sorry to post a tragic passing

OneLastCast · 06-05-2001, 06:01 PM

From conversation with Janice at Jetty Fishery today there has been a tragedy that occured in the Nehalem Bay. Apparently 5 Orcas came into the Nehalem Bay at the Jaws and frolicked around for about an hour. During the frolicking there was a lot of thrashing and water tossing at the sand bar where the seals like to sun bathe.

I think several seals have passed on (actually I don't know how long it takes an Orca to pass a seal)

In memorial it is time to place your salmon rod against your chest, bow your head, and say FISH ONNN!

Respectively
OneLastCast

(everyone has their own method of showing grief....please find what is most suitable and comfortable for you)

TheRogue · 06-05-2001, 06:10 PM

You can't imagine how sorry I am........

that I wasn't there to watch!!! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

T.R.

SAUKit2em · 06-05-2001, 06:14 PM

Hey, I love sea lions...............
they taste like chicken [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

Too bad that those gosh darned Orcas won't comply with the marine mammal protection act [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img]

HOGTIDE · 06-05-2001, 07:07 PM

Orca may be one of God's most beautiful creatures. One of my fondest fishing memories is an evening fishing for coho in Discovery Passage. As the sun set, a pod came along side the kelp beds and began coraling and working the same school of fish we had targeted. You can't truly appreciate their size, power and beauty until you have fished in the middle of a Killer Whale pod in a 14' tin boat...the memory of a lifetime.

A boat full of silvers, taken on unweighted bucktails skated across the surface, makes the memory even sweeter!

Straits of Georgia, Discovery Passage...where did all of your coho go ????

SteelieSteve · 06-05-2001, 07:12 PM

Now we need to get them to swim up the Columbia and run up Multnomah channel for a snack. I'm sure they could find some whale fare. Probably down as far as the falls. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

SuperT · 06-05-2001, 07:40 PM

GO SHAMU GO!!! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

Pilar · 06-05-2001, 08:19 PM

Poetic justice isn't it? Seals swim hundreds of miles up rivers to trap and prey on migratory fish.

Orca swims into a bay to prey on young Pinnapeds.

The wheel turns, eat or be eaten, survival of the fittest.

hound · 06-06-2001, 06:58 AM

way to go orcas!!!!!!!!

i still think they should've just let free willy go in new port bay a couple times a week...

THE REEL HEY_YALL · 06-06-2001, 07:12 AM

I'm sure everyone who has had their fish taken by one of these critters off of their line will really miss these seals. [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

A pod of orcas will actually single out a seal or two and they work the seal just like cattle until "crunch time". It's truly an awesome site to see. Sometimes they fling them around like rag dolls and then it really makes you, as a human, feel so inferior to such a powerful creature.

Hoosier Daddy · 06-06-2001, 07:16 AM

Ah, behold the circle of life.
Beautiful, man, just freakin beautiful.....
sniff...sniff..sniff.

Osprey · 06-06-2001, 08:00 AM

Seals...............it's whats for Dinner............Os

NWO
Redneck Pro-Staff

RIPPLE · 06-06-2001, 08:35 AM

A friend of mine was there camping at the time and said it was quite a sight! I would have enjoyed it myself, as I have "donated" many pounds of crab bait and a number of beautiful nookies to them over the years. Shamu and I were having a cold one last night and he mentioned that they taste like chicken.......
Ripple [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

novice · 06-06-2001, 09:16 AM

Saw the same thing happen in Yaquina Bay about ten years ago. Don't tell pilar but I heard they taste a lot like halibut. Why run to the chicken ranch when you can just do some bay trolling.

novice

TEAM ORCA

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fishbait · 06-06-2001, 03:03 PM

Wish I could have seen it......

Phish_on · 06-06-2001, 03:13 PM

ehhhh don't orcas eat salmon and steelhead also? Probably much more effectively than seals ...

Master Baiter · 06-06-2001, 03:53 PM

Yeah, but I think a big Orca would rather munch on a fatty seal than small fish given a choice!

A few years ago we had a pod of Orcas show up at the Klamath Mouth for a day or two. As we were fishing on the inside of the spit you would occasionally see a mangled sealion come flying up above the horizon and then back down again. Apparently the whales love to toy with their prey. Sadistic Creatures! [img]images/icons/cool.gif[/img]

DanS · 06-06-2001, 04:05 PM

'Baiter,

It's a true story. I have a National Geographic video at home in which a female orca snatches a seal right off the beach and then takes it out to teach "junior" a thing or two. She proceeds to send the seal flying junior's way by swimming underneath the seal and sending it sailing through the air by flinging it with her tail. This seal sails a good 50-60 feet through the air. It reminded me of watching a cat toss a mouse around.......only this seal was a tad bigger than any mouse I ever laid eyes on [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

Master Baiter · 06-06-2001, 04:12 PM

Yeah Dan, Seal (Pinniped) predation is just way cool! I keep waiting and watching to see an white shark pinniped predation event in person, it is supposed to be impressive also.

Goooooo SHAMU!

Joe Schwab · 06-06-2001, 05:51 PM

Somebody should have called PETA. They could have sent someone down to swim out and try to save a few of those pretty seals. God I wish I could have been there to see that. That is mother nature at her best. Free more Willies !!!! [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

GoFish · 06-06-2001, 07:26 PM

I say we start a letter writing campaign to encourage the creation of an Orca hatchery program. Of course, they would have to be conditoned to only feed on piniped meat. I'll volunteer to monitor the first hatchbox!! Anyone out there want to contribute to my efforts by sponsoring a fundraiser?

Fishhead · 06-06-2001, 09:40 PM

Anybody got a tooth pick???? [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

LAYthe5 · 06-06-2001, 09:57 PM

I believe ODFW should do something about that! Like maybe----I know! Raise a local pod of orcas that might stay around and help out the Salmon population's a bit. Why is it that everything that is bad for Salmon is somehow protected by the Government?
Fish on, keep smiling!

LTF [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

Hoosier Daddy · 06-07-2001, 08:42 AM

DanS: that was a great clip!

Seals, they aren't just for breakfast anymore.

.....if it ain't seals, it ain't breakfast, I looove seals.....

...betcha can't eat just one!!

mmmmmmm.....seals......

seal...the other white meat.

alright enough.
I saw the remnants of a orca invasion in Yaquina a few years back, might even be the same one Pilar mentioned. Since we were going crabbing, it made me happy. Pretty cool all around, carcasses half eaten laying on the jetty, ya know, pretty cool stuff for a teenage boy!!

Not that I have anything against seals or anything.