Thread: Beer Wine and Shark Fishing!

I don't know if true or not, but what I've read is that the outer skin should not be allowed to touch the meat, nor should the fillets be allowed to touch the cutting board where the skin had touched/rested. According to this the urea taste is on the skin and readily transfers to the meat if allowed to touch.

I've only cleaned one shark in the last few years. I followed this and did not get any urea taste that I could tell.

FWIW

BTW, I plan to be there if I can and I will have a woven rope with a bit of rebar tie wire inserted to stiffen it and hold it open for shark tails. No guarantees, either of my presence or the rope working, but Ill try.

so the sharks are caught. cleaned on the pier. remains discarded back into the water for other sharks to eat.

Originally Posted by j. gravy

so the sharks are caught. cleaned on the pier. remains discarded back into the water for other sharks to eat.

...rinse, repeat ;-)

maybe the sharks are as smart as crows. whenever we hang a dead crow from our pecan tree they tend to leave it alone. dead sharks thrown over might have the same effect.

Actually, there is some evidence that the scent of shark blood a/o flesh does repel sharks from an area.
Wouldn't it be ironic if the first shark is caught, filleted & the carcass tossed over and then all the other sharks disappear for the rest of shark week??????

... whatever it takes!

I will say when I worked for DISL we would long line for sharks and it was a commmon occurrence for BIG sharks to go down the line and eat every smaller shark right to the head!

Originally Posted by Haywire

I think all sharks should be gaffed, subdued if necessary, measured carefully, then returned to the water if undersized. Perhaps they could be neutered before being released.

Hay,I agree, I think your opinion of sharks is like my opinion of copperheads or snakes in general. Less is better.

I was on the old pier the day (early 90's if I remember correctly) a guy hooked and landed (yes, it was brought up on the pier) a hammerhead that was as long as 3 of the concrete slabs were wide (I'm guessing that the old slabs were 3' wide). It took 8 people to bring the shark up on the pier. A gaff and 2 ski ropes were used (shark was gaffed close to the head and raised up out of the water until it died, then a ski rope was dropped down and wrapped around its head and the 2nd ski rope was dropped down and wrapped around its tail). Once the shark was decked, pictures were taken, and then the guy had several friends come help him drag it down the pier and loaded it into the back of a truck. I don't know if there was any truth to it or not, but I was told by someone who fished the pier a lot at the time that the shark was entered in the OB shark tourney and won.

Actually I think ya'll are dreaming I'll believe a SHARK WEEK when I see it Hope they do but I just don't see them letting you catch sharks off the pier If they do you are not going to get a big shark over that rail I've seen many sharks caught off N C piers over the years and the only way to land it is to Beach it Doubt they are going to allow that but hope they will Something has to be done about the shark problem at the pier Hopefully they are at least trying to figure out something