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Podaker · 01-26-2010, 02:41 PM

this was in the paper this morning. kusi news interviewed a guy on thursday with a red truck who had a mako in the back claiming he caught it 2 miles out. thursday was the biggest of the storms last week i wanted to call B.S. but where else would you get a mako? now i know.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2.../1s26outdoors/
Strange fish stories follow winter storms

Bluefin tuna, mako shark come ashore

By Ed Zieralski, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
Monday, January 25, 2010 at 8:02 p.m.

/ Larry Laumann photo
This dead mako shark washed up at Marine Street in La Jolla.

It was a wild stretch on the ocean last week as big bluefin tuna and even a mako shark inexplicably washed up on beaches after winter storms kicked up giant surf along Southern California and Baja.
The bluefin tuna, a handful of which were scooped out of the surf off Imperial Beach, likely came from one of the tuna pens tended by Australians and Mexicans off the coast of Baja. Tommy Gomes of Catalina Offshore Products said he called a contact of his in that industry but no one wants to talk about a possible tuna net failure.
As strange as the bluefin story was, there was another fish story last week that still doesn’t make much sense. There were news reports of an 8-foot mako shark being caught off La Jolla, but the mako actually had washed up on Marine Street beach some time before daylight Thursday.
Larry Laumann, an expert kayak angler, was the first to find the mako when he was out filling sand bags to prevent flooding of his La Jolla home. Laumann took pictures of the mako, but some time later someone gathered it up and toted it off the beach. Laumann produced photos of the shark on the beach and then of it being hauled away in a red truck.
When a mako shark later was found on a dock in Mission Bay, its jaw and teeth cut out and carcass ripped up, Laumann figures it was too much of a coincidence. That had to be the shark he discovered shortly after dawn Thursday.
The Department of Fish and Game was called in and determined that the man who lifted it off the beach admitted to cutting off its jaw and then giving the carcass to someone else.
The man who claimed to have moved the dead shark was not cited, officials said. It is against the law to waste any sport-caught fish, but this was a dead fish found on the beach.
Laumann wonders whether the shark somehow was tied to the bluefin. He said maybe the net that held the tuna also had the mako in it before it broke.
“The mako was in pristine condition, not a mark on it,” Laumann said.
Kevin Carlson of the Long Run, a sport boat out of Harbor Island, was the first to find those 35- to 50-pound bluefin in the surf in Imperial Beach on Friday. Carlson said he ended up with five of them. Others have recovered the tuna, too.

01-26-2010, 02:41 PM	#10
Podaker Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: la jolla shores Posts: 86	this was in the paper this morning. kusi news interviewed a guy on thursday with a red truck who had a mako in the back claiming he caught it 2 miles out. thursday was the biggest of the storms last week i wanted to call B.S. but where else would you get a mako? now i know. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2.../1s26outdoors/ Strange fish stories follow winter storms Bluefin tuna, mako shark come ashore By Ed Zieralski, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Monday, January 25, 2010 at 8:02 p.m. / Larry Laumann photo This dead mako shark washed up at Marine Street in La Jolla. It was a wild stretch on the ocean last week as big bluefin tuna and even a mako shark inexplicably washed up on beaches after winter storms kicked up giant surf along Southern California and Baja. The bluefin tuna, a handful of which were scooped out of the surf off Imperial Beach, likely came from one of the tuna pens tended by Australians and Mexicans off the coast of Baja. Tommy Gomes of Catalina Offshore Products said he called a contact of his in that industry but no one wants to talk about a possible tuna net failure. As strange as the bluefin story was, there was another fish story last week that still doesn’t make much sense. There were news reports of an 8-foot mako shark being caught off La Jolla, but the mako actually had washed up on Marine Street beach some time before daylight Thursday. Larry Laumann, an expert kayak angler, was the first to find the mako when he was out filling sand bags to prevent flooding of his La Jolla home. Laumann took pictures of the mako, but some time later someone gathered it up and toted it off the beach. Laumann produced photos of the shark on the beach and then of it being hauled away in a red truck. When a mako shark later was found on a dock in Mission Bay, its jaw and teeth cut out and carcass ripped up, Laumann figures it was too much of a coincidence. That had to be the shark he discovered shortly after dawn Thursday. The Department of Fish and Game was called in and determined that the man who lifted it off the beach admitted to cutting off its jaw and then giving the carcass to someone else. The man who claimed to have moved the dead shark was not cited, officials said. It is against the law to waste any sport-caught fish, but this was a dead fish found on the beach. Laumann wonders whether the shark somehow was tied to the bluefin. He said maybe the net that held the tuna also had the mako in it before it broke. “The mako was in pristine condition, not a mark on it,” Laumann said. Kevin Carlson of the Long Run, a sport boat out of Harbor Island, was the first to find those 35- to 50-pound bluefin in the surf in Imperial Beach on Friday. Carlson said he ended up with five of them. Others have recovered the tuna, too.