Chomp!!
 

Wetsuiters beware:eyes:. Third year in a row that I have had a shark encounter, all in the same time frame too(early to mid July). 6 ft'er followed the scent right up to where I was standing to finish off the job. Probably Brown maybe Dusky. 1 clean bite.

Wow, thankfully that hasnt happened to me yet. Nice fish head tough.

Mount it on the wall like a deer head T. :hihi:

I'd prob. crap in my wet suit.

hey Tony
 

that's no 28 inch fish !!!!

you had better read the how to measure a striper thread

As ray Romano's father would say "Holy Crap!!!!"

Glad you are ok T!

How big would it have been?

That fish is barely bigger than the eel! Not quite 28 inches......and what about 5 pounds? WOW! Thats something else T!

Haven't heard from Redlite yet today. Hope he still has all his limbs....:behead:

Well, that'll certainly keep me out of a wetsuit for another few years.........:shocked:

Everytime I think about putting on a wetsuit I'm going to think about that fish head. Now that I think about it, everytime I land a fish in waist deep water I'm going to think about it too.

That is just plain crazy.

Wow. I need chain mail around my waders.

too many sharks in the news for me. takes the desire to freedive away for me.act like a seal, die like a seal:err:

You call it a night after that happens?

Wow,,,, at least you had enough left to make soup,,,,:wiggle::wiggle:

Having fished the cape since I was little, I've always know they are around and inshore in the summer. But I have never had an encounter with one nor have I lost a fish to one.

However, it does make me think twice about bringing a mesh eel bag with a dozen eels dragging behind me in the water. :eyes:

where were you fishing? north shore/ south shore/ RI. i'm spooked.

That's nuts! Good size head as well.....

Back in the 90s I was fishing Deep Hole one morning with 2 other guys. It was August and all we were catching were Blues. My friend Mike is about 20 yards away from me and yells for me to look straight out. There were 3 fins circling us. Looked to be 6' Blue Sharks. We backed out in a hurry as we were waist deep in water.

Tony


did you weigh it for the cup?

He told me the head was 45#, but it was only 18" and had to release it...

Shades of Monomoy in the ol days, had a 30 pounder bit clean in half just after the hit.

yikes

Wow. Hope you weren't doing anything stupid like having the fish on a stringer while your suiting. A friend of mine had a six foot stringer of fish attached to his belt at Montauk many years ago. Blue shark bit one in half while it was on his stringer and almost pulled him off a rock. That's a close call (and a very scary swim back to the beach).

DZ

Should've put a hook in it and thrown it back out there.

The only time I've had that happen to me is from a boat. That would scare the crap out of me if I was standing waist deep. :eek:

See? Boat fishing IS easier. :jester:

C'mon George. Who are you to be recommending bait to anyone? I would have thrown a conrad knockoff myself.

That's pretty cool, and also would probably make me $#!& my waders. On the same note, I just got back from watching the great white that washed up on Nantucket get dissected.

now that's just slamzany....

My girlfriend did the same thing to me as that shark did to your bass. I neglected to clean the mud off the floormats in her brand new camry.:behead:

Was it from the canal?

T, were you in the water?

From what I have "heard" most sharks are more afraid of you than you are of them, but that is completely not true with the browns. Had a friend snagging bunker in broad daylight in shorts with a bag tied to his belt for the bunker, 6 foot Brown took it right off his hip and knocked him over in the process. Guy is lucky to still have that leg.

Brown shark is not the concern....if you run into a bull you'll lose more than your leg.....

Pretty wild!

That is exactly what he did George, it was picked up in a matter of seconds. The splash harmonics drew the shark right back in for more fun as I positioned myself on some rocks with camera for a National Geographic moment. Tony kept lobbing out the head with his hand and had fun with the critter. Keep in mind the hook was buried in the head so a hookset was out of the question. I will say this much; the shark followed the blood trail right to Tony's vacated footprints. Needlees to say it was a knee deep night henceforth.Cool and unnerving all at once.

GLAD to hear that you're
 

OKAY, Tony!
:uhuh: :uhuh: :uhuh:

seeing that head reminds me of the time i was
wade fishing the Sanibel Causeway flats..................

9' stringer tied to me waist ~w/two specks and two reds
trailing behind me in the surf.......................:doh: :tooth: :tooth: :doh:

i was going for an inshore slam and working my way
to the snook hole, when i saw this grey mass cruise within inches
of my shorts and bump my catch!!! i immediately back tracked a coupla sandbars from the channel, and anchored the fish sose they could still swim until i was ready to go. fished sum more, but no joy on the SLAM.

THAT place is notorious for sharks!!! i've had baby black tips swim between my legs, and the LAST time i've ever fished there was when i waded up on a very large feeding hammerhead, chest deep in the surf, on the tail end of a big blow...................:err: :err: :err:




*now,,,,,,,,,,,,where did i put that Crown Royal bottle, again?*
:hidin:

by the looks of that head...decent fish in july

Wicked coool!