New Personal Best
 

Made the long drive to LJ on Sat. for another Personal best. Any guesses on the length and weight?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIAg0QqKhe0

I thought it was going to be a big-ass halibut. Nice, quick release.

The video quality is amazing....

You look like you are almost bored to death! How dare that shark interrupt your fishing time!?:D

Very calm video Greg.

excellent, bravo, well done senoir, that looks like it was a very nice day and a pb better yet...:you_rock:

Soupfin? or smoothhound? if the latter that is a big one.....another man's shark always weighs less :D.......man it looked shhhhhweet out there.

Gorgeous day out there till right before we got off the water at about 2ish, and even then not bad. I will have to check out soupfin. I just looked on the DFG site real quick and picked the one that looked most like what I saw.

That sucker looks like the same tiburon I caught 2 weeks ago. Did he have a nice sore in the left corner of his mouth? If so, that boy just won't learn.

I'm thinking soupfin as well....but then again I'm no expert.

I was pretty stoked pulling on that thing as its been 5 months since I've caught anything, until it came to color. :(

Direct from the horses mouth:
The brown and other smoothhounds can be distinguished from the soupfin shark since their second dorsal fins originate well in advance of the beginning of the anal fin; while in the soupfin, the second dorsal begins behind the origin of the anal fin.

Funny that this is the only mention of the Soupfin in the fish identification section, and no pics. But after viewing again I can clearly see that the fins start about the same location so Soupfin it is.

I did not notice any other piercings on the fish I caught, but I read something about them hanging in group of up to 10 or 20. My 2 friends were both hooked up minutes prior to me but were busted and/or bit off.

On the weight I'd guess in the 20 lbs class. The tappering (long) body like the Dorado can make it look heavier that it is. IMO.

Just curious.....what did you think you had on the other end before you saw some color.

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Thanks for posting the video. I see you were careful about getting your hand too close to its mouth - I don't blame you.

I was pretty sure that it was some type of shark because of all the bouncing my rod tip was doing. That had already ruled out BSB and Ray, and it was not like a Halibut headshake (too many too close). I am always hopeful though, cause you never know when you are going to foul hook something that will fight like never before.

The rod tip bouncing is usually from there tail hitting the line. I caught one at Dana that thats much bigger and it fought the same way. Had my hopes thinking it might of been the right kind. Your video makes me miss selling my kayak.

like everyone else i was hoping to see a big brown blanket.:cheers1: