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Subject: Weird hooping


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Jim Day
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Date Posted: 10:31am


Went out to the local breakwater Sunday night and hooped for maybe half a dozen shorts and two legals about two pounds each.

Here's what weird: I probably had 18 bugs come up chewwed up. I first noticed it when a full set of legs came up still tangled around the bait. The rest of the night I had bugs come up without tails, hollowed out tails, sets of antenna, pieces of carrapice, essentually broken up bugs with all thier meat gone.

It was pretty obvious that they were being killed and eaten in the nets. The faster I pulled them the more I'd get, also some came up still moving, though half of them was gone.

I didn't see any seals, but several times I felt a heavy weight in the net as I started pulling, but whatever it was it got out fast.

Any ideas?

The nets were not torn up and the bait unmolested. I'd think fish seals or sharks would of just taken them, not eaten them in the net. Though some were shorts guaging by the antenna's some were big bugs maybe five pounds.

All I can say is it beats the hell out of me.

Tight lines Jim

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