last summer. He said it had a big tail and big teeth. He said it was 4 feet long and estimated 70 pounds. 1:00 A.M. on a mackerel head half.

huh..

Steve...."I'm not talkin' bout fishin' for bluegills or tahmmy cod.....talkin' bout sharkin' for a livin'!":jump1:

You talking about the gurnet in Plymouth ?
If so, could be possible but I'm not too sure about thresher,
But a few years back, I was on my way down to Race point and just as the sun was coming up I came up on tons of shark finning on the surface, so I stopped , got near them and tossed out a frozen mac, and hooked into a 4ft er
I got it up next to the boat then released it.
I don't remember what type of shark it was, but I know it wasn't a dogfish!

It's possible...
We took a 5 1/2' mako 3miles off newport in '94.. sucker jumped 4 or 5 times.. had to chase em with light tackle.... my father was on the rod, and I was at the helm... I think it was the first time I ran the boat chasing a fish ... it was the day before school started that year... :D good way to end the summer...
btw... he tasted good... and the jaws still hang in my office....

when bassin was slow back then, tons of guys bluefished deep off newport, 100ft or so, and almost every august someone would get spooled or drop something big..
we were lucky.. this guy appeared behind the boat so we could bait him properly...

"caught" a small blue shark drifting off the vineyard last year, around 90#, took an eel, thought I was gonna beat McReynolds!!!

I came over a dune on Block Island one night in 94 or 95, around 2:00 in the morning - and happened upon a drunk guy and his girlfriend who had a 4-foot brown shark up on makeshift spit and were roasting it (whole, Aborigine-style) over a big campfire.
One of the weirdest sights I've come across.

he said it jumped 4 or 5 times, he said it had long tail fins on both the top and bottom of the tail fins (the top was longer though)

Very Possible. Threshers are really near coastal sharks and they come in, almost to the beach to give birth to their pups. There is a place on Long Island which is a know thresher pupping grounds, and its within a couple of hundred yards of the beach.

I think I read in So Cal. they catch them regularly very close to the beach....
and Joe... eek.. thats a sight

In my time in the commercial fishery, we would occasionally come across some blue sharks and por begel's about 2-3 miles off the beach north of nauset. It was pretty impresive to watch the blue sharks feeding on our disgarded fish. They would go as far as to occasionaly take a bite out of steaker cod right from the net as we were hauling... As far as thresher sharks, the only time we came by them were south of muskegit channel, way south...

Did anyone hear the reports of large sharks near the southway last year in chatham... Apparently people claimed that they were coming right into the shallows. Wouldn't that be nice if they started feeding on those seals?

We use to catch blue sharks every now and then from the rocks at Halibut Pt in Rockport -they love eels

I would not doubt it, about 5 or 6 years ago a guy I new got one of the beach in Falmouth Ma

I see large sharks in the Canal every fall.

i waded with a shark in the canal this fall
also, see them in late summer in the merrimack.

I believe it. I grew up in Duxbury and there was always sharks being pulled off the bridge. Not dogfish but small 2-3-4 foot sharks. I was on a boat this september and my friend caught a four foot shark on a dead pogie at the end of the plymouth breakwater. Long and fat with big teeth it was a big surprise.