Thread: Land based sharking

You can legally fish for sharks anywhere but the Gulf State Park, as long as you do not create an unsafe condition for anyone in the water or on the beach.
And there is no chumming/ bloodbaiting within 300 feet of the beach.
Your situation poses unique problems with accessability, can you get through sand at all?
If not, I would recommend going all the way to Navarre pier in Florida to fish sharks. But would encourage you to give up on landing sharks and just fish the Gulf State Pier.
You are very likely to hook one there, just can't land it.

Thanks Chile. I can do sand, it's just a pain on bearings. I knew about the chumming and such, just wasn't sure on the regs for orange beach and other areas. We will be fishing the pier also. Definitely caught plenty of sharks king fishing last time we were down there fishing off the pier. Thanks again for the help

It is a very long walk to the Fort Morgan point. I was exhausted after just a few trips pulling my fishing cart, and I'd like to think I am in decent shape.

you could easily catch sharpnose Sharks from the beach on any of the public beach accesses. A lot of them put you on the beach without too much distance to cover. You just need to wade into the first bar and cast out. Not sure about bigger ones.

How do you like the penn prevail? I have a 10ft and 12ft I recently bought. The 10ft is very sensitive, even pompano were putting a good bend on it.

Yeah, the point would definitely be a challenge. I still have most of my sharking equipment, we just always focused on kings down there when we came. I'll give it a shot when we come down. I'm not a huge fan of the prevails for smaller fish. I use mine primarily for channel catfishing up here in Kentucky and they are a little stiff for me. They seem to be a better build quality then the emcasts though. I've seen reel seats break and the tops snap 3-4 eyes down on several emcasts. Now as a big fish rod, the prevails shine. Mine will cast 5-6oz weights + bait all day.

Yeah I had no issues casting big baits along with 3oz spiders. Good luck if you go.

OK... Who all is still down for this?

Jhatch
Dutch
RockinChef
John Kozicki
Daniel9829
CJW
Mattb


I will be staying two nights in Foley, June 4th & 5th.
I will be able to fish Thur, Fri and Sat.
Contact via Pm for Ph#.
I hope y'all come out and catch big sharks.
Look forward to meeting everyone.

The best time to do this is early evening when the beach starts to clear off, get out there and run baits at least an hour or two before dark.

Hopefully I am off one of those days Chile.

If anyone who wants to do this will spend $20. on a 3 Day FL non-resident SW license, we can fish just over the state line with no worries of any harassment.
Except maybe by a tree hugging, bunny loving, granola crunching, PETA card carrying Liberal.

Unfortunately I won't be down until July, otherwise I'd be all for it.

guys sorry I have been absent here. I'll be down this coming weekend till the following so I'll beable to get over there for one or two nights.