Orcas eating catch

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LeGrand
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Hope this clip works.

http://img31.imageshack.us/i/video23952e.mp4/
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Cool! (language warning) :)
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That captain should be gunning the boat around and overtop of the whales like they do to the sharks in that Tarpon Tour on WFN!

Reminds me of dad having a seal steal a sockeye off his line right at the boat in BC when we were out there ~10yrs ago!
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Holy crap! I'd hate to fall out of the boat netting a fish, a little leery even bending over the edge to net one.
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Graembo wrote:That captain should be gunning the boat around and overtop of the whales like they do to the sharks in that Tarpon Tour on WFN!
Gunning the boat around and overtop of the whales would likely result in injured orcas. It's illegal to harm an orca, never mind the total lack of ethics involved. (The same goes for doing it to sharks - pretty pathetic behaviour from Tarpon Tour people.)

How stupid would a captain have to be do do what you suggested with so many witnesses? He's be out of business and lose a fortune in fines in very short order.

Also, one of those orcas was bigger than the boat and could probably capsize it to retrieve an even larger and slower swimming meal than a big salmon.
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Wow that is pretty cool. I lost about a 30 lb salmon to a seal while fishing the Straits of Georgia near Parksville a few years ago. The seal took the fish just as the captain was about to net it.

I think I could live with losing a fish to an Orca just to see them that close. I wonder if it knew not to take the whole fish because of the hook?
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Post by Gord »

same thing as a musky comin' up to slam a lil' walleye.....just on a much larger scale! :lol: :lol: :)
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Post by Climber2k »

watch the orca go under the boat at 1:20 you can see his reflection under water. :P
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