re: 3 shark attacks in Destin in the last 5 hours

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My personal experience is that sharks are fine. Especially around beaches m, inlets, and fishing reefs.

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Well, that other guy in the thread said he's lived in the area for a quarter of a century and is in the water often, but has only seen maybe 20-30 sharks at most.

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Sooo I don’t really give a frick about anywhere else.

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Pretty clear that's the case and that you don't care much about learning anything, either.

I, nor likely anyone else, can tell you anything.

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Only if we send Felon x 34, too

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Your not funny lame arse bitch

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Pels_Yaz

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I see you're having a night. Just shitting all over multiple boards.

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Are those fishing from shore chumming the water

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There is a lot of misinformation among the public about shark fishing from the beach...to the point that it is not allowed in much of Florida. If fishing could attract fish catching fish would be a damned site easier than it is. Chumming does not attract fish to an area that is largely devoid of fish...it merely congregates the fish in the area. They are already there. If people were aware of the critters in the first ditch at any beach they would be terrified of getting in the water. Fishing does not attract them to the area, sources of food attract them. If you have been in the first ditch on any beach anywhere for any length of time odds are pretty good you have been very close to a very large predator fully capable of consuming you. The ditches between sandbars on beaches are FULL of prey for predators...and the murky water is excellent cover for HUGE predators. Given the number of people who have close encounters with those big bastards without ever knowing it is amazing there aren't more attacks.

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Are those fishing from shore
there’s always some douche nozzle fishing amongst the swimmers.

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Is there? Always? I fish beaches anytime I get a chance. I have rarely seen a fisherman set up and fish amongst folks swimming. I know I have never done it. What does happen EVERYTIME is that fisherman will set up at day light and about an hour after setting up folks will start walking the beach. About 2 hours after setting up folks will start swimming. About 3 hours after sun up the beach is over run with folks who have invaded the area the fisherman was set up in 3 hours before they got out of bed. Most fisherman are well aware of this and know they have about 2 hours most mornings to fish without being invaded by others using the beach. I have seen people come to the beach to fish about the same time as the swimmers get there but those morons are rare and usually lose interest very quickly. Finally if fishing attracted fish catching fish would be a damn site easier than it is. Fishing does not attract fish....fish are there with or without fisherman being present and fishing. Chumming does not attract fish, it congregates fish and can increase feeding...but the fish are already present.

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such as nurse sharks


Not large or dangerous. At all.

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Nurse shark attacks are the 4th most common type of shark attack. Somehow folks see a nurse shark, which appears to be a lumbering docile critter, and start fricking with it and when the shark does what a shark is going to do they are shocked. Nurse sharks are not overly aggressive but they are very common and are, at the end of the day, a predator. I would bet that unprovoked nurse shark attacks are almost unheard of but they do attack a bunch of idiots who frick with them.

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I done a lot of low level beach flying, sometimes it seems like the entire food chain of the ocean is waiting just beyond the area where the bottom begins to deepen, barely past where all of the people are

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The surest way to know if someone knows what they are doing while surf fishing is to watch where they keep their bait the majority of time, especially on the gulf coast of Florida. The first ditch is a fish super highway. It is FULL of bait and it is generally cloudier than deeper water which provides cover for bait and predator alike. It is rare that casting beyond the first sand bar is needed to catch most species common off the beach. Some of the best beach fishing in Florida takes place just before and just after sunrise casting plugs and spoons parallel to the beach in the first ditch. The fishing is mostly over LONG before swimmers show up. In parts of south Florida in the height of summer it is possible to catch double digit numbers of BIG snook flat lining a live croaker or pinfish just a few feet behind the spot where the waves run up on the beach every morning for 90 minutes or so either side of sunrise. Fishing doesn't attract fish, if it did catching the damned things would be MUCH easier. Successful fishing requires fishing where fish are present, not trying to attract them to an area they have no interest in. They are extremely interested in cruising the first ditch just off the beach. They are there all day every day....the only reason the fishing is over in an hour or so after sunrise is they are not as well hidden as they are in low light of early morning. Its harder for them to hunt after the sun gets up. People swimming also runs them off.

In a moment of weakness I agreed to accompany my family to PCB the week of July 4th this year. We used to do this annually because a large group of friends from all over the country would meet up the week of or one side of the other for the 4th. We stopped going about 10 years ago because the area is a madhouse and getting there is a nightmare. That said my kids wanted to go this year and we are doing so. I always fish the beach every morning on these trips. I hope and pray that the shark scare is such that the beaches are closed. The odds of someone running me off at 6 AM is slim to none.....it would be FANTASTIC to fish without the early morning joggers and beach walkers aiming for set rigs and then complaining about fisherman who were there and hour before the jogger got out of bed and was using about 20 feet of beach where the jogger just had to run. Alas, I highly doubt the hysteria will reach those heights but hope springs eternal....

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This just isn't true. Usually, it's some idiot that bought a pole at Bass Pro Shop when he and his wife were shopping for their beach trip and want to give it a whirl. And they set up at mid day. You're giving people that fish off the shore in a public area too much credit. Most of them are drunken idiots.

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The one you describe is exactly what you claim and they do exist for certain. Most beach goers never see the beach fisherman who knows what they are doing unless they are on the beach before daylight. The one you describe is also rare, not anywhere close to the majority, and do not participate in the activity for very long because they are not successful at doing anything but getting into angry confrontations with other drunken beach goers. At times on some beaches the number of extremely knowledgeable and successful fisherman will be close to the number of beach goers on a nice summer day at 10 AM. The outer banks of NC is one such area, much of south Florida is at times. There are very few of those fisherman who will show up at midday on a crowded beach and start fishing set rigs amongst the swimmers.