SHARK BAIT - Striper Talk Striped Bass Fishing, Surfcasting, Boating

surf fishing IN R.I. · 07-09-2003, 05:31 PM

DID SOMEONE SAY SHARK BAIT

surf fishing IN R.I. · 07-09-2003, 05:37 PM

DID YOU SAY SHARK BAIT

beachwalker · 07-09-2003, 05:41 PM

Hey,

You are definetly doing a good job of scarey the piss out the shark fearers

Has anyone ever come across a seal carcass, in the area, that shows signs of being bitten by a shark ?

I found one last year. A big adult harbor. The gulls has picked at it pretty good. Not a shark bite to be found.

The Loggerhead that I mentioned earlier...... A bunch of midsized bites out of it.

The turtle washed in from the south. There and to East (in Tunaville) is where the maneaters are..........

JohnR · 07-09-2003, 06:48 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by beachwalker
Has anyone ever come across a seal carcass, in the area, that shows signs of being bitten by a shark ?

Many times, sometimes torn up sometimes not so...

beachwalker · 07-09-2003, 06:51 PM

John,

Where ? When ?

Evidence of shark bites ?

MightyMouse · 07-09-2003, 06:56 PM

If you want to clear out a spot of excess anglers, post some pics

mikecc · 07-09-2003, 07:06 PM

I have pictures at the shop of a 43 Lb striper that was attacked by a shark and survived Only to be caught in the Cape Cod Canal last week buy a guy down by the east end with a 5 oz jig.
I will post the pics later.

Buy the way
It was the guys first ever fish on a jig.

beachwalker · 07-09-2003, 07:38 PM

sweet. this i gotta see.

mrmacey · 07-09-2003, 07:45 PM

a striper schoolie cut in half his tail end missing fluttering by me still alive something just got it seal or shark and that day i also seen a whale in the canal amazing site glad he didnt get my plug!!

mikecc · 07-09-2003, 07:54 PM

Forgot to say the fish was caught last saturday.

BasicPatrick · 07-09-2003, 07:56 PM

Three years ago during the last days of the MV Derby there were about 100 boats out by Nomans trolling small swimmers for Bonito...My buddies rod goes off and the fight was on...then it felt sort of funny and my buddy calls Bluefish...as he continues the fight we keep thinking we are seeing Bonito colors but NO Bonito fights like this. We finally land the fish and sure enough, it is tunis tunis, a Bonito. We then start laughing as we notice that it must have gone 6 or 7 pounds but only weighed about 4 because the rear third of the fish was missing. The fish was alive and doing the Tuna vibration thing but had been bitten in one bite up to the dorsal fin. Later that day we started seeing four or five six foot sharks following the hooked fish in and if we were not quick enough the hooked Bonito were getting busted by what I later found out was a school of Brown Sharks.

beachwalker · 07-09-2003, 07:57 PM

Can't wait for mako mike and co. to check in

beachwalker · 07-09-2003, 08:00 PM

And that is what people are freaking out about right now.

They are here every year and are pretty fiesty.

Quite a tug when they start to bite you off !

beachwalker · 07-09-2003, 08:04 PM

By the way,

My new Avatar is a photo of me running away from a 65' white shark while sail trolling the south shore of this island.
It was a little breezy out and all of a sudden this giant wave rears up with a big white top. I SWEAR it was a giant shark

and I had to jump out of the way.

Not looking for a pat on the back but the next time someone wants to know about surf and rip currents.....

I have spent a little time with them.

Basic Patrick,

Are you getting out Bassin' around Nomans lately ?

MakoMike · 07-10-2003, 07:02 AM

I have lost codfish to sharks while fishing out at cox's and I've seen sharks close to the beach off the island and Montauk. A good freind of mine once caught a 5 foot mako while fluking off Miontauk, the shark swam up and ate the short fluke he had caught. We've caught lots of shraks of various species at 600 X 800 which isn't very far from the southeats corner of the island. Brown sharks breed and have their pups inshore, so it wouldn't be the least unusual to see one in the bay. I only saw TV pics of the sharks off Gansett, and those were just profiles. If I has to bet, I'd say they were blue sharks. I certainly hope that's what they were because I was surfing down by the coast guard station the two days before the sharks were spotted.