OH NO A SHARK
 

http://ledger.southofboston.com/arti...ews/news01.txt

It's headlines all over the place today. Gee...ya think it might be looking for something to EAT? Like maybe a SEAL? :hihi:

Only 1 fatality from a shark attack in the last 100 years. I surely would have thought there would be more in MA.

My first reaction was basking shark. :humpty: Size, and triangularity of the dorsal, makes it frequently mistaken for a great white.

Not the species we're looking for to solve that issue.

If we need to find out what it really is, just head out one evening with a bucket of fish blood and chum and start pouring it into the water off the beach ... then throw out your Christmas lamb like in Jaws and hold on ...:rotf2:

There was a basking shark sighted down off Wollaston Beach a number of years ago, and there was some idiot trying to snag it like he was hooking a real monster. The harbormaster pretty much told him to go home. It's a real treat to have water clean enough to have these "sea monsters" close enough to visually enjoy. I think it's rather funny (in a sad way) that people can't enjoy nature at it's finest and purest without trying to kill it.
It amazes me that people don't fully understand that our New England waters are chock full of interesting creatures, some that could be dangerous if not handled with care.
I fish in Duxbury Bay and I love to see the amazement on people's faces when I tell them that the water does have sharks, and that they could be swimming right along with you. Of course these people don't get the fact that the vast majority of sharks in our coastal waters are either fish eaters or scavengers. I really love fishing New England.

Actually the same holds true for Southern Florida. When I lived on Key Biscayne in Miami for five years, a friend of mine who was a local flats guide, grew up on the Key, would take us just off the beach after fishing to show us the sharks that swim amongst the bathers ... it was pretty scary, but at the same time, we never saw one bite any of the swimmers/bathers ... we did it two or three times over the course of several years ... and none of the bathers knew a shark was passing right by looking for fish and/or crustaceans.