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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, 06:58 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, 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, 07:15 AM
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#7
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2004
Location: South of Boston
Posts: 2,605
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Glad you are ok T!
How big would it have been?
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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, 07:47 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
Posts: 23,392
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That fish is barely bigger than the eel! Not quite 28 inches......and what about 5 pounds? WOW! Thats something else T!
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Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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07-16-2008, 07:49 AM
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Respect your elvers
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: franklin ma
Posts: 3,368
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Haven't heard from Redlite yet today. Hope he still has all his limbs....  |
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, 07:52 AM
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Cape Crusader
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Ashland, MA
Posts: 323
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Well, that'll certainly keep me out of a wetsuit for another few years.........  |
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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, 08:10 AM
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Here fishy fishy
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Whoville
Posts: 2,266
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That is just plain crazy.
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07-16-2008, 08:29 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Beverly
Posts: 513
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Wow. I need chain mail around my waders.
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"You should have been here yesterday"
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07-16-2008, 08:32 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: New Haven Ct
Posts: 957
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too many sharks in the news for me. takes the desire to freedive away for me.act like a seal, die like a seal  |
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07-16-2008, 08:35 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 3,650
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You call it a night after that happens?
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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, 09:09 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, 09:10 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....
Posts: 5,451
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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, 09:53 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: North Cambridge, MA
Posts: 1,358
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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, 01:09 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Marshfield, MA
Posts: 6,267
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now that's just slamzany....
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