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07-11-2008, 05:45 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2001
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Beaches closed yesterday...GW sighting
http://www.mvtimes.com/2008/07/10/ne...-sightings.php
I mentioned before that if this seal protection issue keeps up it is just a matter of time before Southern New England has a real "Jaws" situation on hand. It appears we are getting close. Maybe in the next couple years.
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07-11-2008, 03:18 PM
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Red Eye Jedi
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: East Facing
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saw it on CNN this morning.
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07-11-2008, 03:20 PM
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President - S-B Chapter - Kelly Clarkson Fan Club
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Rowley
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I'm confused, is the whole thing a hoax or just this one sighting?
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07-11-2008, 03:36 PM
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President - S-B Chapter - Kelly Clarkson Fan Club
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Location: Rowley
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too bad, I was going to get on the boat with Quint 
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07-11-2008, 03:51 PM
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I think there was a single legit sighting from a plane off south beach but several others jumped on the wagon....and saw them all around the island.
I don't know about the GW population but there are plenty of sharks around close to the shore. Just take a boat around the island on a calm day, you'll see them.
If there was a GW off of State Beach I would be there in less than 5 min swimming live a bluefish off my newZeeBaas
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07-11-2008, 03:56 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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"What about the shark Chief?" 
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Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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07-11-2008, 04:04 PM
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Trophy Hunter Apprentice
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: THE Other Cape
Posts: 2,508
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what's the big hub-bub??
GreatWhite's gotts ta eat toooo!
just doan be there when they dooooo!!
mutha natcha has a funny way of working
this over abundance of sealzzz thing out.
good call,,,,,,,,,,,,Mr Sandman, GOOD call!
maybe by two migrations we'll be back to
"normal" and the sea lions will have been
naturally selected from nuisance to negligent.

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"The first condition of happiness is that the connection
between man and nature shall not be broken."~~ Leo Tolstoy
Tight Lines, and
Happy Hunting to ALL!
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07-11-2008, 08:10 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 114
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more whites out there than people want to believe.ask roy who has one on video off chatam with a friend of ours who is a guide out of larrys on the vineyard, seen another this year. lots of seals lots of sharks
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07-11-2008, 08:18 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Martha's Vineyard, MA
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there certainly is plenty of seals on the island..... wouldn't be suprised if there are a few great whites cruisin around
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07-11-2008, 10:03 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: NY
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found a bass head that looked awfully strange... half a bass... i should have took a pic..
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07-12-2008, 05:55 AM
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lobster = striper bait
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Popes Island Performing Arts Center
Posts: 5,871
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Sandman
If there was a GW off of State Beach I would be there in less than 5 min swimming live a bluefish off my newZeeBaas
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You like being fined and having your boat seized?
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Ski Quicks Hole
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07-12-2008, 06:05 AM
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First, I was kidding (mostly)
But, name one case where that has happen.
If you did hook a GW and released it or it broke off I doubt any charges would be brought or boats would be seized.
Didn't mundus bring in a GW? Did they seize his boat?
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07-12-2008, 06:06 AM
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M.S.B.A.
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: I live in the Villiage of Hyannis in the Town of Barnstable in the Commonwealth of MA
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Come on Roy...Grab the meat stick and let's go...I'll buy the Bait!!!!!!!!
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"It is impossible to complain and to achieve at the same time"--Basic Patrick (on a good day)
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07-12-2008, 06:34 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Hampton, NH
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"Hoopah drives the boat chief....."
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07-12-2008, 07:19 AM
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lobster = striper bait
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Popes Island Performing Arts Center
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr. Sandman
Didn't mundus bring in a GW? Did they seize his boat?
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Not after they went on the endangered list.
Anyhow the sum total of the fight would be: either fish picks up bluefish, bites right through your leader and never notices you were even there or fish picks up bluefish, one tail thump, all your line is gone, the end. Grats you just left a fish trailing 300 someodd yards of braid or mono. Or the fish would look at you and laugh at your puny ZB.
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Ski Quicks Hole
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07-12-2008, 08:22 AM
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Location: weymouth,ma
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Last December I was in a jewelry store on the South Shore when a guy came in looking to have some GW teeth mounted for necklaces. They were the ones that fell out while drying the jaws. Claimed to have caught it off Chatham around Thanksgiving. Guess the endangered list did'nt hold much water with him.
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A bottomless pit of bum information/ Death makes memories of us all...
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07-12-2008, 08:26 AM
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Southsider
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Bass River, Mass.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mackenzie
Last December I was in a jewelry store on the South Shore when a guy came in looking to have some GW teeth mounted for necklaces. They were the ones that fell out while drying the jaws. Claimed to have caught it off Chatham around Thanksgiving. Guess the endangered list did'nt hold much water with him.
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I don't doubt that happened Mac, but I feel pretty comfortable saying nobody took home a white from Chatham last year, or any other recent year for that matter. I would not believe that until I saw it.
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07-12-2008, 10:24 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Kingston MA
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I was on the Vineyard with the family the week before the 4th and there was a seal body washed up just south of the lighthouse in Edgartown. Did not get close enough myself (smell was to bad) but a woman who's dog decided to roll in it, (what are dogs thinking when they do this), said it looked to only be half a seal!
Maybe with the shark tournament someone hooks a GW for proof although I know they fish 50-100 miles off the island.
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07-12-2008, 11:18 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by flyben24
there certainly is plenty of seals on the island..... wouldn't be suprised if there are a few great whites cruisin around
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have fun swimming benny  , i'll miss playin with you on rainbow six 
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"We're onto Cincinnati."-God
"Wanna know which ring is my favorite? The next one."-Jesus
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07-12-2008, 11:20 AM
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lobster = striper bait
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Popes Island Performing Arts Center
Posts: 5,871
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mackenzie
Last December I was in a jewelry store on the South Shore when a guy came in looking to have some GW teeth mounted for necklaces. They were the ones that fell out while drying the jaws. Claimed to have caught it off Chatham around Thanksgiving. Guess the endangered list did'nt hold much water with him.
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You believe everything you hear?
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Ski Quicks Hole
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