Shark Week

[Jimbo]

I was thinking about that as well, but I wondered if fishing for sharks wasn't as well publicized or popular a sport then. It seemed like the shore wasn't populated so much with people with summer houses as people from the city who came to stay in in fancy hotels. It was interesting to hear that many people couldn't even swim so they strung long ropes out into the ocean they could hold onto. And the one lifeguard in that story, I don't know how close it was to what he really said, but he referred to people standing on the beach watching as "the monster" whipped the guy about and feeling compelled to go save him. So the lifeguard didn't really comprehend what was going on but went out anyway...that takes a pair.

[FishermanTim]

What I find rather funny, in a pathetic sort of way, is that people go swimming in many ocean locales and never knew that there could be sharks around them at any moment.
I talk to people while I'm fishing down in Duxbury, and tell them that at low tide you can wade out quite a ways from shore and only be waist deep. That they know. When I also tell them the numbers and types of sharks that inhabit those very same waters (and possibly same times) they look at me like I just sprouted wings!

The key part of my little shark-shock story is that the sharks that inhabit MOST of the NE coastal waters (north of the cape) are all fish eating sharks. There is a rare chance that a GW or Bull shark might wander up our way, but that's a longshot.

I consider sharks like hawks, falsons, owls and eagles: they are better appreciated in the wild.