Shark found in Lake Guntersville

[LIVES4SHARKS]

Those articles are a hoot! It's definitely a fish story that has taken on a whole new life!

RUN SAVE YOUR CHILDREN! THE SHARKS ARE GOING TO GET YA!

Sigh...I just feel for the shark!
Carolyn:sharks:

At least this shark wasn't dumped in a ditch in Georgia!

 

[MRXRAY]

How did it go from a Atlantic Sharpnose Shark to Bull?

 

[BNow0707]

MRXRAY - I think they originally believed it was a bull shark, but then they correctly identified it as Atlantic Sharpnose. I'm sure that a bull shark would sound alot better for the media, so im sure some sources just kept using that.

 

[mike_s]

How did it go from a Atlantic Sharpnose Shark to Bull?

The media just doesn't check its facts.

You've got to realized that some "bubba" at the local bait shop most likely said something like "I think that der is one of them der "Bull Sharks"" and the reporter who doesn't know a bull shark from a dolphin went with it.

Then other news media took the story and got half the facts again and repeated it over and over...

 

[Hetland]

Sharks on the "G"?
from TroyJ/Angling Alabama
7/27/2008 140 PM
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So I'm fishing with my brother a couple weeks ago on Guntersville. I get a solid strike on a 1oz jig and I set the hook. The fish took off and literally had my #50-lb braid singing through the water. It pulled 30 yards of braid off of my locked down spool and I could not begin to slow it down with my thumb. A few moments later it took off another direction and the line went slack. I reeled in and the jig was gone and the braid was cut clean. I'd never hooked a fish that fast or that strong on fresh water. Near as we could tell it must had been a giant stripe, because it ate the jig (wasn't snagged) and was too fast to be a big cat and too powerful to be a big drum. (I catch a lot of cats and drum, so I know).

So... what do I see in the Guntersville paper yesterday? Yep, someone found a 3' bull shark, dead with a jig in it's mouth. (Looked like my jig in the pic in the paper anyway).

My brother said to write a report that the shark broke me off while fishing for pirannah near a gator mound. (Just to keep the jetskiers on their toes)... lol.

You never know I guess.

#50-lb braid in fresh water?

I could not begin to slow it down with my thumb

braided line + thumb = "Four Fingered Troy"

 

[SCUBAJENNIFER]

I thought this was going to be another one of those sharks that followed Mike home from the Jetties.

 

[BNow0707]

#50-lb braid in fresh water?



braided line + thumb = "Four Fingered Troy"

Guntersville has ALOT of Milfoil and other vegitation. Lots of folks fish heavy test lb braids to help fight the fish out of the vegetation.

As for stopping the fish with the thumb. We do that all the time with bass and large catfish. Don't see how that would lead to a lost thumb?

 

[mike_s]

I thought this was going to be another one of those sharks that followed Mike home from the Jetties.

Guntersville has ALOT of Milfoil and other vegitation. Lots of folks fish heavy test lb braids to help fight the fish out of the vegetation.

As for stopping the fish with the thumb. We do that all the time with bass and large catfish. Don't see how that would lead to a lost thumb?

that and I've seen folks fishing "huge heavy rods" that you'd see in saltwater on the Tenn River.... seems like overkill, but they put line on it that you could use on your weed-eater and jig-fish the bottom for huge catfish and carp and other huge fish.

 

[Hetland]

Guntersville has ALOT of Milfoil and other vegitation. Lots of folks fish heavy test lb braids to help fight the fish out of the vegetation.

As for stopping the fish with the thumb. We do that all the time with bass and large catfish. Don't see how that would lead to a lost thumb?

try stopping or slowing braided line peeling off a reel and get back to me....

 

[Tom Smedley]

It was just within the last couple of years that someone found a shark carcass in the road in
St Clair County near Pell City. The Alabama Fish and Wildlife folks have determined that the one in Lake Guntersville was put there.

Seems that both babies were victims of someone's sick humor.