re: Sharks while wade fishing

Ive had it happen around the Skyway Bridge in Tampa / St Pete when I was a kid. More than once, Always kept the stringer loosely tied so if one grabbed it they didn't also get me LOL! Long stringer that would drift down tide of me and a bucket of shrimp with a lawn mower innertube around the top to keep it floating. Almost always nurse sharks. Always saw sharks while in the water....never minded them a lot then. I wouldn't wade fish on most of the gulf coast now, not because of sharks but because its too damned nasty and flesh eating bacteria is real. Just kidding, ain't overly concerned about the latter.

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Stringer of specs on the waist belt is a feeding call....

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Gotta use a LONG stringer so it drifts down tide from you and tie a slip knot. Even when I was 10 years old though I was heavy enough that even if the slip knot did not slip the shark would just thrash around until it ate through the stringer.....or thats what I told myself.

NEVER wrapped a cast net loop around my wrist though...never. Was told about a guy snaring a dolphin in Tampa with it tight around his wrist and he was never heard from again. No idea if its true but I have had one get caught it my damn trolling motor and it could cause one to fall their big arse off the boat if he weren't carfeful

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how goddamn big a manatee really is

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I had it happen to me in Tampa LOL. I thought I was about to reenact Jonah and the whale...had it happen in Cuba once also in an area I ought not have been wading in the first place BUT the snook were thick as cord wood and feeding.

That same spot in Cuba I had a similar experience with a shark but in the boat. The river channel was about 150 feet wide and at low tide only had about 4-5 feet of water in all but about 20 feet of that and that was only about 10 feet deep. Was tied up to an old wooden bridge and noticed a "bulge" heading down the river....had no idea but something MASSIVE was swimming down that river and pushing water ahead of it. When it cleared the bridge it was a MASSIVE shark....at least 15 feet long and looked about that broad at the shoulders. I was in a 22 foot hurrican deck boat I had stripped down to nothing but a center console (made a helluva fly fishing deck) and I almost think that shark was as long as that boat....seemed like it took it forever to swim past me. I assume a bull but do not know for certain. It was a big bastard though....pushing water like a damned submarine.....

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You are in their home when on the water. If they eat a fish off your line or rip your daughter's arm off when swimming, thats just something we have to accept. If you don't like those terms, stay home and play video games.

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I'm ready for those retarded beliefs to go away.

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What? That isn't a "belief," much less a retarded one. Its an indisputable, cold-hard fact. If you want a 100% chance of not being bitten by a shark, don't go into the ocean or bay. If you want 100% assurance that a shark won't eat your catch, then don't fish in the ocean or bay. Simple as that.

Yes. Wacked one in the head with a rod tip before at Freemason. He hauled arse. I’ve only lost a couple trout on a stringer. I also make sure that stringer isnt close to my legs and far enough away in case another shark gets brave