The lucky schoolie but no photo of the seal unfortunately.

 

bloody hell m8 iv seen the seals a few times when iv fished ep but allways way of shore
sound like seals are geting braver to humans and thay have a nasty bite im told
talking to a local gill neter the seals pick fish out of the nets a lot and thay will eat a lot of fish crabs

 

The nasty bite is REALLY nasty. I rescued a seal a few years back (tangled up in someone's braid), and I wound up in a long correspondence with some local seal experts. It turns out that seals' mouths contain some bacteria that can cause gangrene. General antibiotics don't do the business; so you have to tell the doctors it was a seal bite, and make sure they look up the specific antibiotic that works. (I was not bitten myself -- the experts were just warning me for the future.)

 

Thanks for the posting and info
I hope they are just getting brave and not starving....at one time we never saw Gannets even when boat fishing now a regular ....last beach comp at E.P. one was hunting along the shore line

Cheers Tony

 

Lucky for the bass that he went for your bait.

 

It sure is a changing world,the pagham one has got to that stage yet [i hope]......Alan

 

Nice report and a nice story that you will not forget in a hurry.