Out of water shark experiences anyone????

[Scubaguy62]

So I decided to try out my new rod and reel at the Pompano Beach fishing pier last Saturday night. Got a few good hits and hooked a couple of juvenile grunts, but threw them back. What was interesting was to see a guy casting a long rod with a live 8 to 10 inch Permit on the hook (one of these http://indian-river.fl.us/fishing/fish/pompperm.html ), only to later reel in a 4' bull shark. Talk about a pier clearing event...people looked like the grease in the Dawn dishwashing commercials.

Anyone else has experienced something like this? Share it!

 

[CBulla]

Many years ago I used to fish specifically for shark. I had a 15' boat that was mostly open and about 6' wide... just the first 3' of the bow was covered with a bench seat that was built in (it was a 1960 Thunderbird). The remaining portion was basically 7x6 open area. Anyway, there were several occaisions my own stupidity and lack of patience put a shark between me and where one would drive that boat.

Before anyone goes crazy, this was over a decade ago before finning and other wasteful tactics were known about and when it wasn't an uncommon to see shark steaks in fish houses or resturant menus.

 

[whalerkyle]

Shark fishing is my favorite down here in Cali. Mako and Thresher, yeah baby!!

Kyle

 

[Chebby]

Shark fishing is my favorite down here in Cali. Mako and Thresher, yeah baby!!

Kyle

Just wondering, do fishermen who catch sharks eat them?

 

[whalerkyle]

I can't speak for most fisherman here in Cali, but I will only keep 1 or 2 big ones per year. This past summer I was fortunate enough to harvest 250 pounds of Mako (2 Sharks) and 330 pounds of Thresher (One shark) I have a nice big freezer in the garage.

Both Makos taken this year were from speargun. The Thresher was mouth hooked during slow troll.

My family eats shark once or twice a week.

Kyle

 

[CBulla]

My catches were always eaten. Primarily it was blacktip shark with the occaisional lemon. Also, due to the size of my boat, it 4-7' sharks were my size range, fat females thrown back.

 

[Chebby]

Hey, as long as you guys do it for food and not for gore, I say great. Better then buying from fishermen that will kill a whole bunch of other stuff in the process with their stupid nets.

How do they taste?

 

[Scubaguy62]

How do they taste?

I've never caught one, but did have shark steak on a flight from LA to Miami (1st class baby...), and in all honesty, "it tastes like chicken."

 

[CBulla]

I used to cook my shark steaks over Cypress & Hickory chips and sprinkled on Everglades seasoning on the meat before placing on the grill. It is a light white flakey meat thats sweet. I laid off of it due to the high levels of mercury found in sharks around the FL Gulf coast.

 

[DeepDog]

After looking for the Sixgill again today, when I got out, I found a big harbor seal laying up against the rocks. Poor guy. I guessed it was a shark attack since that's one of their only predators.

You can see a wound but it's hard to tell what did it or how old the wound is but I didn't exactly want to do an autopsy. A bit of a strange find though. So naturally I took a couple photos.

Oh, and I caught a fantastic 7 foot sailfish in Puerto Vallarta a couple of years back and I was glad it wasn't a shark!

DeepDog