I got this story second-hand from John at Twin Maples. Two locals were fishing a sandy spit one night on a good bite. The spit has a good current running along the ocean side and it is narrow and drops off pretty quickly on both sides. It is shallow on the bar and you can wade out in the water quite a ways. The bite died and the two fisherman headed to to dry land. Halfway back they can see this big shape blocking their path (remember it is night)! They inched closer and one shined his light on the shape. They both screamed like thirteen year old girls (my interpretation, that is what I would do!). An estimated 1000 pound Mako had beached itself tying to swim over the bar. It's big tail was sweeping back and forth and it didn't seem to like the light so they shut it off. The bar is narrow and it is a big fish, so there is no way around it, plus the tide is coming in and pushing them closer to the shark. Needless to say they are both scared s--tless and trapped. Worst case scenario they get washed off the bar same time as the shark and they all end up in the water together. In this case (a happy ending) the shark got enough water underneath to slide off the bar and the two fisherman raced to shore. And as John says, "Never to fish there again!"
If you win this trip you will be fishing this bar, good news is I think it will be a little too cold for big Mako's in early June (I think?
) Gary
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