CANNONBALL!!!!!!!

[kjsdad619]

Sitting at work..day dreaming about fishing and then saw this..

http://video.foxnews.com/v/4486206994001/breaching-whale-nearly-crushes-kayakers-to-death/?#sp=show-clips

And someone said we had to look out for sharks..:the_finger:

[FISH11]

Just last week there I was admiring a smaller humpback at LJ just on the outer edge of the kelp. He was in the kelp having fun provably eating some red crabs and kept playing in the kelp on the surface. Every time I would turn on the Go Pro and tried to change my angle to him from about 45 yards he would go back down and disappear for about 3-4 minutes. After watching that video I won't be getting that close again. Unless it does what one did, earlier this year and breach about 20 yards behind me and scared the shit out of me.

[Fishin' Magician]

I was up in Pismo Beach all of last week and there were literally hundreds of humpback whales for the better part of two weeks. It was very common to see 10 whale spouts at any one time. There were some paddleboarders and then a couple of kayakers out amongst them. These were huge mammals and the people out there looked miniscule to them. Some of the tails were longer than the two person kayaks. Amazingly, the whales didn't seem to be bothered by the people out there and just as amazing was the fact that no one got injured. But very suddently they all left and moved up the coast, probably as their food source had moved on. It was no surprise to me to read about the whale that breached and fell on top of a couple of kayakers near Monterey. They were more than likely the exact same whales that had been camped out off of Pismo Beach for the previous 2 weeks. Just be careful when around these whales. They are so huge and weigh something like 50 tons! They wouldn't mean us kayakers any harm, but then again, once they get up some momentum and start to breach, they're not going to stop.