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Any one else been harrassed by a persistant dolphin at four beacons? Spotties were steady until this dolphin ate one mid fight. He didn't bust me off, but did fight well. Even on 30 pound braid.
We cut him off before long thinking he'd be sore.
He turned up five minutes later still spooking our targets.
Tried to lose him by moving to another beacon. He just followed us over.
Are people feeding these dolphins or are they just cluey?
That will be old Scruffy, the one with the really torn up dorsal fin. >
He's a real pest, I've seen him in several locations and he's always after a feed. I even saw him up at Deepwater Bend on the Pine once. Had a German mate that I took fishing there who was stunned to see a dolphin in a river. I was very nonchalant. "Dolphin? Yeah, we see em all the time"
Actually, Scruffy is just my name for him. The staff at Tangalooma call him Freddy (as in Kreuger) because he's covered with scars. He's supposed to be a single male who travels around by himself.
I think too many folks feed him the odd sardine or two and have made him very open to begging food from boats.
The one I've seen there last 4 trips ain't too scruffy. He's just got a piece out of his dorsal but no other marks that I can see. He'll take your livies even if the yakkas are thick there. I'm beginning to think he's some kind of masochist or something as we hooked him 3 times in an hour and he just kept coming back for more. The only way to beat him is to fish dead baits. I think it's the alarm bells that livies give off which attract him.
kev
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