Here's part of a post I made from 2010 in the Ucluelet reports. Pilchard days.
Those are still the only fish I've lost to pinnipeds.
"We found a spot on the Big Bank where there were no boats and the fish were bigger (18-30). We had 3 double headers in a row and only landed 3 fish because a big blonde motherf'er of a sealion ate the other 3 and they were all on my rod. We picked up and moved at speed over a mile away and there he was shredding my 4th fish. We then ran 3 more miles and were rid of him but out of the fish so we did a slow troll back toward that spot where he once again got one side of a double header for his 5th of the morning. He would just grab the fish, peel off 200ft of line, surface, rag doll, and then a head and my big brass Titan spoon would come back to the boat."