Thread: Beer Wine and Shark Fishing!

Its to late for me to change vacation dates,I hope it doesn't impact our fishing maybe it will make it funner for the grand kids ,of all the dates they could have picked they chose my week

Originally Posted by Pier#r

why we need them.

Y'all been trolled.

Originally Posted by Pierless

Y'all been trolled.

Originally Posted by mike243

I have never caught a shark but think it would be a lot of fun, that said I'd rather catch some thing that didn't take hrs to get in and disturb a lot of other fishermen. It sounds like they need thinned out and I was wondering if giving them a sore mouth would help?

Sore mouth does not seem to affect them. We did an inshore shark charter in the keys. The captain went to the same sandbar every day. They used circle hooks, and cut the leader at the hook. You would catch sharks with 4-5 hooks of varying degrees of rusted out hooks.

Really fun trip, we landed 6, and lost 5-6 in 3 hours. Biggest was a 6.5ft lemon, but I was spooled by a bull that was at least 8ft.

The water was less than waist deep.

6-8 beers, a 5ft, shark on the hook..sounds like fun...add to the mix 95 degree temp with 110 degree heat index.

I did not see a single word or phrase indicating that we might actually catch them.

Originally Posted by Haywire

I did not see a single word or phrase indicating that we might actually catch them.

Well, it does say "dissections".
Perhaps we could donate a few fresh ones ;-)

Yeah, I think the shark week has been derailed from the original intent to 'thin the herd'.

FINALLY ;-)

7 Foot Tiger Shark Ends Shark Week With a Bang in Gulf Shores | WKRG
By Debbie WilliamsPublished: July 28, 2017, 9:21 pm

GULF SHORES, Ala. (WKRG) — On the back of a charter boat, two men struggle to tie up a massive tiger shark. “Somebody came by and hooked it and shot it right out there,” Braxton Reid says while pointing off the end of Gulf State Park Pier.For the last couple of weeks, the tiger shark had made the pier part of its daily hang out scaring away other sharks and almost everything else.The seven-foot tiger shark was landed right in front of anglers on the pier who aren’t allowed to land sharks and for Slade Schwenke, that just doesn’t seem fair. “If you are sitting on a boat a hundred yards off the pier you can legally kill it. Why can’t we kill one here? They are a nuisance.”
The fight for fish between anglers and sharks has become as routine as pelicans waiting on an all you can eat buffet to swim right by. “If we could kill sharks on Gulf State Park Pier everything would be better,” says Reid.
When there are a lot of sharks, very few fish make it to the deck of the pier. For some anglers, like Kayla Scott, that’s okay. “That’s their home and they have to eat too. I think they should be left alone.”

By the way that seven-foot shark was landed by a 12-year-old girl. She and her family plan to filet it and have a very good meal.