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re: First great white shark caught in Alabama
Posted on 3/16/23 at 6:08 am to TigerDeacon
Posted on 3/16/23 at 6:08 am to TigerDeacon
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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.
Most of those people were there hours before the kids roused and finished their cereal...those that do as you describe are being assholes and they out to be run off....and on some beaches what you are describing will get you run off.
That being said some of the best snook I ever caught came at mid day tossing a spoon or a jig on a crowded beach....folks churning up the water is about as good a method of chumming as there is. Most people are enthusiastic about it, especially when you hand them the rod or even better hand their kid the rod. There is always the a-hole who thinks they own the beach but most people are happy to share. Fishing set lines in that situation is just dumb though....
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Posted on 3/16/23 at 6:14 am to TopWaterTiger
It ain't often reported but Kingfish are more likely to accidentall take a nip at a swimmer than a shard. At times off the east coast of Florida the kings are thicker than fleas right in the surf and if you happen to be in the same vicinity as a school of mullet...and if youre in the water at that time of year your are in the vicinity of a school of mullet...a big old smoker is liable to deliver a nasty nip. It is hilarious to see hoardes of people running out of the water over a skying 20 pound king....
Posted on 3/16/23 at 7:46 am to AwgustaDawg
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At times off the east coast of Florida the kings are thicker than fleas right in the surf and if you happen to be in the same vicinity as a school of mullet...and if youre in the water at that time of year your are in the vicinity of a school of mullet...a big old smoker is liable to deliver a nasty nip. It is hilarious to see hoardes of people running out of the water over a skying 20 pound king....
Made up bullshite.
Posted on 3/16/23 at 1:57 pm to slinger1317
quote:No they’re not, the sharks are already there.
And these clowns fishing on the beach are just drawing them in closer.
I’ve flown over the beaches of Florida and Alabama and you wouldn’t believe how many sharks cruise the coastline mere yards from people.
Posted on 3/16/23 at 3:41 pm to bhtigerfan
Just a little shark story. My family were always big surf fisherman for speckled trout.
We would wade and swim out to the bars at Timbalier Island or other barrier islands with our tackle,bait and stringer. Momma sewed us some vest that we could carry cut mullet,finger mullets etc. We were a walking chum line.
My Dad, frugal as he was, made himself a stringer about fifteen feet long out of old boat steering cable. He overlooked that a shark couldn’t cut the line. We would always make our stringers long with some trawl floats on it saw our catch would drift behind us and as far as possible.
The big bull sharks would occasionally take your catch but could cut a nylon line. I guess they never ate us because we kept them fed and smelled like coonass’s
Dad and I were at the third bar were nailing the big yellow mouths on big chunks of cut mullet. Casting back to the second bar.
A Bull shark came beside me and heading straight for Dad’s fish. Grabbed them ( 12-15 3# plus trout is a mouthful) and headed for the beach. Pulled the old man by his stringer to second bar till he could stand up and let the shark have the fish. He never lost his rod.
We laughed. He pulled his spare stringer out and we swam back out and started nailing them again.
I know it’s a long post but it is one of my finest memories.
What I would give to see,smell,talk to and hug my Daddy for a few minutes.
We would wade and swim out to the bars at Timbalier Island or other barrier islands with our tackle,bait and stringer. Momma sewed us some vest that we could carry cut mullet,finger mullets etc. We were a walking chum line.
My Dad, frugal as he was, made himself a stringer about fifteen feet long out of old boat steering cable. He overlooked that a shark couldn’t cut the line. We would always make our stringers long with some trawl floats on it saw our catch would drift behind us and as far as possible.
The big bull sharks would occasionally take your catch but could cut a nylon line. I guess they never ate us because we kept them fed and smelled like coonass’s
Dad and I were at the third bar were nailing the big yellow mouths on big chunks of cut mullet. Casting back to the second bar.
A Bull shark came beside me and heading straight for Dad’s fish. Grabbed them ( 12-15 3# plus trout is a mouthful) and headed for the beach. Pulled the old man by his stringer to second bar till he could stand up and let the shark have the fish. He never lost his rod.
We laughed. He pulled his spare stringer out and we swam back out and started nailing them again.
I know it’s a long post but it is one of my finest memories.
What I would give to see,smell,talk to and hug my Daddy for a few minutes.
Posted on 3/16/23 at 5:31 pm to Bigfishchoupique
That’s awesome.
Posted on 3/16/23 at 7:19 pm to MissNebraska
Bama hoops players shoot it yet?
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