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re: First great white shark caught in Alabama
Posted on 3/15/23 at 10:52 am to slacker130
Posted on 3/15/23 at 10:52 am to slacker130
Frick !
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Posted on 3/15/23 at 12:52 pm to slacker130
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5lbs of bloody bonita
Yum.
Posted on 3/15/23 at 12:53 pm to MissNebraska
Should have killed it.
Screw great whites swimming around in oceans my family swim in.
Screw great whites swimming around in oceans my family swim in.
Posted on 3/15/23 at 1:04 pm to slinger1317
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Nothing like trying to enjoy your beach vacation while some dude is casting
If someone wants to fish off the beach that's fine, but what always gets me are the dudes that are staying in one of the Phoenix condos who bring a whole wagon of rods down to the beach and set up right in the middle of all the umbrella chairs. Then they spend the whole morning looking pissed at people being around them and kids swimming in the surf.
Posted on 3/15/23 at 1:16 pm to Honest Tune
quote:That's essentially what happened here (for those that didn't see the video)
I’ve seen videos in Florida of surf fishermen that will use a kayak to get a bait way further off shore, where the deep water boys and girls swim, then they’ll reel them in to the shore.
Posted on 3/15/23 at 4:02 pm to MissNebraska
When I think of all the times we would have swimming parties tied off to a mooring buoy or platform in the GOM it gives me the frisson.
Fifty miles offshore in 300 feet of water. Diving off of the bridge and climbing up through the tuna door.
Adults and kids too. My daughter was in the water with us when she was about eight and my son was five.
We were crazy in the old days.
Fifty miles offshore in 300 feet of water. Diving off of the bridge and climbing up through the tuna door.
Adults and kids too. My daughter was in the water with us when she was about eight and my son was five.
We were crazy in the old days.
Posted on 3/15/23 at 4:15 pm to Bigfishchoupique
As someone who worked a lot of years offshore. I would have to be in a bad way to jump in the water.
Posted on 3/15/23 at 6:04 pm to MissNebraska
Not surprised. I hear they catch mud sharks on campus all the time.
Posted on 3/15/23 at 6:35 pm to Lsudx256
So people just hang out in waist deep water next to a great white now? Got more nuts than me.
I actually know a chick nicknamed mudcat. Don’t really get the “on campus” part, but I smell what you’re steppin in.
Edited: after work buzz and ice cold fingers can’t type too well.
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Not surprised. I hear they catch mud sharks on campus all the time.
I actually know a chick nicknamed mudcat. Don’t really get the “on campus” part, but I smell what you’re steppin in.
Edited: after work buzz and ice cold fingers can’t type too well.
This post was edited on 3/15/23 at 6:37 pm
Posted on 3/15/23 at 8:39 pm to Funky Tide 8
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Turns out that no one is ever truly content at the beach.
Ha I sure am. I tune out the world and fall asleep. I like a cocktail and/or a book but don't need it.
Posted on 3/15/23 at 10:20 pm to tadman
Was this the Texas boys
Posted on 3/16/23 at 5:43 am to slinger1317
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And these clowns fishing on the beach are just drawing them in closer.
Nothing like trying to enjoy your beach vacation while some dude is casting into the middle of my skip-ball game
Shark fishing in the surf does not attract sharks to the surf. Sharks are omnipresent in the surf because that is where the food is....it is a perfect environment for a predator that relies on scent and cover to ear...the murky water in the surf is perfect. Bait is constantly churning attracting fish and fish attract predators. If a person has ever flown at low altitude along a beach they are always shocked at the number of sharks present mixed in with the multitude of people swimming and playing...the surf is full of bait, fish and predators...its the people that are out of place.
Posted on 3/16/23 at 5:45 am to DownSouthDave
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They are already there. To think otherwise is foolish.
They are thicker in the surf than they are almost anywhere...even soaking an entire 10 pound bonito hundreds of times up and down a beach would not attract a single extra shark into the mix. The first hundred yards off any beach is THICK with sharks. It is the perfect hunting zone for a predator.
Posted on 3/16/23 at 5:50 am to deeprig9
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I agree. Never really see them catch anything either. People who can't relax on vacation.
This might be the most anti-Outdoor post I have ever seen on the Outdoor Board. You probably saw this topic on the "What's New" tab and thought you were on the OT Lounge. If I were a mod here, I'd ban you from this particular forum. But I'm not. So here you are.
Banning not withstanding it is a good thing that folks that don't know no better assume that because they don't see folks catching in the surf means there ain't no fish in the surf. Would that more people who know how many fish are in the surf would forget that fact....at times the folks fishing is THICK. There ain't no fish there, no need to bother fishing. Would that this would become common knowledge!
Posted on 3/16/23 at 5:56 am to Honest Tune
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I’ve seen videos in Florida of surf fishermen that will use a kayak to get a bait way further off shore, where the deep water boys and girls swim, then they’ll reel them in to the shore.
So the people who are doing this legally in Florida are arguably the most regulated outdoorsmen in outdoors. Duck hunters might be close. The regulations to do this legally in Florida would confuse a Philadelphia lawyer. Those same fisherman will also have baits in the first trough and they catch just as many fish in the first trough as they past the bar or bars....those troughs between bars are the interstate highways of the surf zone...they are full of bait, fish and predators. If you have ever seen dolphins in the first trough...not unusual...it is just as easy for a shark of any size to cruise that area. Where they exist killer whales also cruise that zone...it is the perfect habitat for a predator equipped with a keen sense of smell and vibration to ambush a meal.
Posted on 3/16/23 at 5:56 am to BoogaBear
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Never catch a damn thing. Enjoy your ultra out there.
Yep, aint nothing but gafftops, hardheads and rays in the surf. No need to bother...
Posted on 3/16/23 at 6:00 am to deeprig9
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It's not like these fishermen are pouring in buckets of blood and chum on the beach to drawn them in. They walk out to the beach, toss out a piece of bait on a hook, and if a shark is there, it might bite it.
My little brother was with me at the beach in Destin when we were like 15 and 11 or so with my parents. He comes running out the water all nervous claiming he saw a shark. I’m like of course you did.
Maybe 2-3 minutes later the guys 50-100 or so yards from us fishing are making a ruckus. People start congregating so I walk over there, they caught the damn shark.
So I ask what they were fishing for or what they were going to do with it. They said eat it, that’s what they were fishing for. They then freely offered that they had been chumming the water trying to get them closer. I was like wtf is the matter with you.
The ringleader was older than the rest and had a screw loose so it occurred to me that I probably shouldn’t challenge them and just stay out the water.
Posted on 3/16/23 at 6:00 am to Funky Tide 8
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Turns out that no one is ever truly content at the beach.
Outside of a solitary surf fisherman I would agree wholeheartedly. It's as bad or worse than tent camping for most folks...like some sort of mortification of the flesh to atone for the sins of the year from the looks on people's faces and the things they could terribly bent out of shape over.
Personally I can't think of anything outside of swift kick to the nuts that would be less enjoyable than sitting in the sun amongst thousands of other folks and staring at the water. Alone or on an uncrowded beach absolutely but amongst 10,000 people from St Louis and Cincinatti??? Thanks but no thanks...
Posted on 3/16/23 at 6:03 am to slacker130
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One of the most scary nights of my life. 19 years old, beach shark fishing at 2 AM, paddling 5lbs of bloody bonita past the second sandbar. Canoe is filled with blood and we flip it on a breaker. Deeper than we can touch. We somehow unswamped the boat and got back into it in record time. I really have no idea how we did it in the pitch dark, in the waves. All adrenaline, I guess.
It has been said that the lord watches out for kids and drunks....in the overall scheme of things a canoe full of blood in the massive amount of water that there is in the ocean ain't much but being in the center of that mess at night knowing what lurks in that zone is some seriously concerning shite....logic usually takes a vacation when a person is treading water in a circle of bonito blood!
Posted on 3/16/23 at 6:04 am to CoyoteSong
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Should have killed it.
Screw great whites swimming around in oceans my family swim in.
While I take your point your family is the one out of place....the shark is where it is supposed to be. If a shark were to somehow find its way to Peachtree Street and attacked someone it would be a different story...
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