I lost a 30-plus pound chinook to a sea lion last year off Vancouver Island. Was trolling near rocks, fish hit and ran in close, right where a herd (school?) of lions was. Tried to horse the fish out of the shallows but one particular sea lion swam faster than I could retrieve. Happened during a painfully extended personal dry spell, too. In retrospect, the episode is pretty comical. I wasn't too amused at the time, though.