Personal Narrative

Once while my dad, my sister, and I were salmon fishing, my sister, Molly, had a seal take her salmon from her pole. My dad was so mad because my sister was using the good pole with about $15 worth of gear on it that my dad didn’t want to lose. I have never seen a seal come that close to our boat in my life and I doubt my dad has either; this was a moment I won’t soon forget…

My sister was about to catch her very first salmon. She was still reeling it in when probably three feet from the boat a huge Harbor Seal came right up and grabbed the fish in its mouth.

My dad said, “Daniel quick grab the pole and reel as fast as you can!” So I did as I was told and my dad drove toward where the line was in the water. My sister was very mad because it took her fish, and she was screaming, “Go get it, go get it!” my dad said he was trying to stay above the seal so it would have to let go of the salmon to come up for air. On the line I could feel the seal coming up. When we saw it come up to breathe it still had the salmon in its mouth, but it was only up for about five seconds before it went down again.

After it surfaced about three more times, the seal released the fish and my dad grabbed the line and quickly pulled it into the boat. It wasn’t a very big fish but we kept it anyway. The seal had bitten a chunk out of the salmon’s throat and pulled the guts out. When Molly saw it she said, “Poor fishy.” My sister loves smoked salmon, so when we got home she asked my dad to smoke it for her. He did and Molly was very proud with her first salmon.

My sister has caught a lot more salmon now that she has spent the summer going salmon fishing with my dad and me. She has also had one of the biggest dogfish my dad has ever seen chase after her salmon. So I guess you could say she has caught a lot of different things while salmon fishing.