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07-16-2008, 06:14 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Onset
Posts: 1,228
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Chomp!!
Wetsuiters beware  . 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. |
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07-16-2008, 06:26 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Sturbridge MA
Posts: 3,127
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Wow, thankfully that hasnt happened to me yet. Nice fish head tough.
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Everything is better on the rocks.
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07-16-2008, 06:48 AM
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It's about respect baby!
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: ri
Posts: 6,358
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Mount it on the wall like a deer head T.  |
Domination takes full concentration..
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07-16-2008, 06:55 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 10,295
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I'd prob. crap in my wet suit.
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07-16-2008, 06:59 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
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As ray Romano's father would say "Holy Crap!!!!"
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No boat, back in the suds.  
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07-16-2008, 06:58 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 22,805
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hey Tony
that's no 28 inch fish !!!!
you had better read the how to measure a striper thread
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07-16-2008, 08:09 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 215
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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.
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07-16-2008, 08:38 AM
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Great White Scup Hunter
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: In the Corner...
Posts: 2,251
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Wow,,,, at least you had enough left to make soup,,,,  |
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07-16-2008, 08:43 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2004
Location: South of Boston
Posts: 2,605
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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. |
The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. ~John Buchan
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07-16-2008, 08:53 AM
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Formerly the_shocker
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: ricca
Posts: 730
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Quote:
Originally Posted by t.orlando
Wetsuiters beware . 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. |
where were you fishing? north shore/ south shore/ RI. i'm spooked. |
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07-16-2008, 09:07 AM
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Looking for birds..
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Not close enough to salt water..
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That's nuts! Good size head as well.....
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07-16-2008, 09:10 AM
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<><><><><><><>
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: somewhere on a rock
Posts: 1,603
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Tony
did you weigh it for the cup?
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07-16-2008, 09:33 AM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
Posts: 3,368
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jim sylvester
Tony
did you weigh it for the cup?
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He told me the head was 45#, but it was only 18" and had to release it... |
It's not the bait
At the end of your line
It's the fishing hole
Where all the fish is blind
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07-16-2008, 09:37 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Uh, in a spot....
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Shades of Monomoy in the ol days, had a 30 pounder bit clean in half just after the hit.
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Why even try......... 
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07-16-2008, 09:09 AM
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Very Grumpy bay man
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 10,824
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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.
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No boat, back in the suds.
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07-16-2008, 09:53 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: North Cambridge, MA
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yikes
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07-16-2008, 10:22 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2000
Posts: 2,574
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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
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DZ
Recreational Surfcaster
"Limit Your Kill - Don't Kill Your Limit"
Bi + Ne = SB 2
If you haven't heard of the Snowstorm Blitz of 1987 - you someday will.
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07-16-2008, 10:41 AM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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Should've put a hook in it and thrown it back out there.
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07-16-2008, 11:10 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: RockVegas
Posts: 3,228
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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. 
See? Boat fishing IS easier.  |
The future ain't what it used to be. --Yogi Berra
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07-16-2008, 11:15 AM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
Posts: 3,368
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Quote:
Originally Posted by numbskull
Should've put a hook in it and thrown it back out there.
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C'mon George. Who are you to be recommending bait to anyone? I would have thrown a conrad knockoff myself. |
It's not the bait
At the end of your line
It's the fishing hole
Where all the fish is blind
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07-16-2008, 11:39 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Pembroke,MA
Posts: 784
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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.
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07-16-2008, 05:23 PM
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Oblivious // Grunt, Grunt Master
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: over the hill
Posts: 6,682
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Back Beach
C'mon George. Who are you to be recommending bait to anyone? I would have thrown a conrad knockoff myself.
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Now, now, my simple child, do not be troubled. Just as other clergy, we, the High Priests of Fishing Arts, must also prostrate our holiness amoungst the profane. Yes, catching the Devil's fish with the Devil's food is wrong, but rest assured I would gather no pleasure from such beastly pastimes. Rather, I would submit to it only to better understand those poor tormented souls who stand alone in the darkness fondling impaled serpents. How else can I help them and turn them from their deviance back to the Holy Path of St. Pinchney before they and their cellphones are doomed? Besides, I have it on Flap's good authority that fishing bait for sharks is far superior to bunging prepubescent altar boys which, frankly, seems to have become more trouble than it is worth for us holier than thou types. Now go away and step on a LEGO. |
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07-16-2008, 03:55 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 8,718
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Quote:
Originally Posted by numbskull
Should've put a hook in it and thrown it back out there.
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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. |
PRO CHOICE REPUBLICAN
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07-16-2008, 01:18 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: East Taunton
Posts: 658
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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.  |
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07-16-2008, 02:02 PM
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None
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Newton, MA
Posts: 4,464
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Was it from the canal?
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07-16-2008, 02:11 PM
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Stuck In Reality
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Holden MA
Posts: 4,519
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T, were you in the water?
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07-16-2008, 02:19 PM
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GrandBob
Join Date: Apr 2001
Posts: 3,547
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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.
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07-16-2008, 02:47 PM
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Cape Crusader
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Ashland, MA
Posts: 323
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Brown shark is not the concern....if you run into a bull you'll lose more than your leg.....
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07-16-2008, 03:19 PM
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Marcia! Marcia! Marcia!
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Marshfield
Posts: 2,608
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Pretty wild!
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"Sunshine Day Dream"
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07-16-2008, 04:26 PM
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Trophy Hunter Apprentice
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: THE Other Cape
Posts: 2,508
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GLAD to hear that you're
OKAY, Tony!
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.......................  
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................... 
*now,,,,,,,,,,,,where did i put that Crown Royal bottle, again?*
Last edited by BassDawg; 07-17-2008 at 03:27 PM..
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between man and nature shall not be broken."~~ Leo Tolstoy
Tight Lines, and
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