Thread: Land based sharking

My family and I moved down from Northern Illinois last June. Your going to love the winters.

Northern il. Where are you from john?

I'm in the Chicago suburbs too... curious minds want to know!

We grew up in McHenry. I lived 10 minutes from Wisconsin.

Going to the beach fishin Sunday. Will be testing our shark gear out to see what we need to work on.

Good luck John, post what you catch. The best we could manage last week was a little Sharpnose. Werent trying too seriously though, never fished into the night.

I will let everyone know how we do. We will probably fish from noon till about an hour after dark. I'll need a weekend to fish late nights. Do have to work to pay for the gear.

Some friends and I were sharking Sat evening/night just West of Navarre Pier, we managed to catch, tag & release a 7.5' Scalloped Hammer.

Shark: Scalloped Hammerhead, male, TL-7.5'
Rod: Penn International V, turbo guides.
Reel: Penn 12/0 spooled with 1000 yards of 100# Sufix Superior mono.
Bait: Blackfin Tuna head, dropped about 400 yards out.
Fight lasted about a half hour, fish was tagged for NOAA's Apex Predator Program and released, it swam off very strongly.

My sharking buddy Daron and his wife were down from Kentucky and we met up at their Townhouse for some fishing/sharking.
Daron comes down at least twice a year and been overdue for a good shark, so when I got a fast & very strong run on my rod I told him to harness up.
He fought it for about a half an hour, it really put up some hard fights coming over the bar twice, his wife had to hold onto once as he almost slipped.
A nice medium sized shark for him, his new PB, happy to have given it to him as he deserves it for all he does for others.

Awesome catch!

Hey Guys, Coming down next week for 6 days and would like to do a little sharking. Use to fish out on the east coast with a yak for running baits. Got a couple spinning reels with 500+ yds of 40lb braid with 10' penn prevails. Where exactly can you catch sharks legally? Is perdido pass off the alabama side ok? Fairhope pier? I know about ft morgan, just don't know if we could make it down there with an offroad wheelchair. Just wanting to catch a couple regulation/eating size sharks