Sharrrrkin'

[Sea-Gar]

I went to Tantas on saturday and got skunked. Only the 2nd time that has happened. Lots of boats out there, mostly tuna fishing - No one seemed to be hooking anything but dogfish. Beautiful day on the water though. Lots of whales and a large school of dolphins.

[thefishingfreak]

tajon and I just got back from tillies. three blue sharks in short order. from 100# 175# and a bruiser that had to go over 250#.
we left them biting at noon when we had to split for the day.

spike mackeral EVERYWHEAR!!!
little chum stealin' bastages!

no tuna seen today.

[taJon]

What A Day!!

BIG thanks to Fishing Freak for all of his knowledge and nohow.
Because of him I landed my first shark, not the biggest of the day but what a fish.

Thanks again

[saltyric]

Awesome! Nice work. I did the "tuna tour" thing Sat morning without a single sighting........ Were you guys in the deep water out there? 500+? Just curious.

[taJon]

yes and no.

Started the drift around 240ish and drifted over a hole around 500+ then back to the 240ish range.

Steady cod all day too, not very big though.

[thefishingfreak]

water depth doesn't matter.
just start the slick over some sort of structure. and never leave your slick! no matter whear the wind takes you.
they will find the source of the sllick... eventualy.
a two mile long slick is a good start.

[thefishingfreak]

two more big blue sharks today on southern jeff's
took a beating getting out there in head on 3-5' seas. but well worth the trip.

first one was about 150#. and the second can only be estimated at 300# easy,,, as my bud fought him for 40 minutes on a stand up 70 with 30#' drag.
had him to the leader three times but the shark had other plans.
big boy!!! tough to leader!!
no pics of the big one as it was only two of us and someone had to drive, wire etc... but he was big. clean release on the fourth attempt ,,
high fives and we headed for home.
sunburnt, beat, and tired...