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08-12-2014, 11:24 PM
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La Jolla first
First time being followed in by an 8-10 foot hammerhead
 Frickin thing followed me for a solid 45 mins to an hour and was inches away numerous times. Guess he could smell the YT on the yak. Had him hooked up for a bit on a greenback as well. After being hooked he bailed. Go pro was out of juice and I was super bummed because would have had some epic footage. Oh, YT caught on fly lined green back in 100 feet of water at NW corner.
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08-13-2014, 12:53 AM
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Man I hope one of them f***ers doesn't roll up while I'm diving
Rad that they're in so close
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08-13-2014, 02:00 AM
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Thanks for the post. I sure don't want to add a hammerhead to the list of species that have given me a scare out there.
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08-13-2014, 06:39 AM
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Holy guacamole!
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08-13-2014, 10:32 AM
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That's awesome! We saw one feeding on something on the surface on Monday on the San Diego. It was friggin' huge
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08-13-2014, 11:57 AM
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Thats pretty cool. Pucker factor was high I bet.
I went on a 2 day this weekend. Hooked a tuna on the popper that was smoked by a 10ft hammerhead right at the gaff. They sure are curious sharks. Not sure I'd want to have a close up encounter with one while on the yak 
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08-13-2014, 01:38 PM
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Yeah Steveooo, I was slightly sketched a couple times because it was within 6 inches of yak numerous times. Overall was a cool experience but 45 minutes of it following me was a bit too much . If it was a GW I would have been way more sketched
Sorry your tuna got munched and hope you landed more
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08-13-2014, 02:21 PM
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Do you have a yellow kayak?
Myth Busters proved as plausible that sharks are most attracted to the color yellow. I have a yellow kayak and thought it was because my wife keeps painting a seal silhouette on the bottom. |
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08-13-2014, 02:47 PM
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Super Shady Fish robbery!@
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08-14-2014, 01:46 AM
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Caribbean blue Revo. My friend next to me was on my Mango x13. The shark was only interested in me due to a YT on my lap and the blood that was draining through hole for mirage drive train . I did myth busting : bananas on boat/kayak and fishing this past Sunday . That day I had two bananAs I caught two YT. So always fishing with two bananas on kayak
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08-14-2014, 10:41 AM
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Some years ago we were fishing off La Jolla, maybe about ten miles out on an 18' Boston Whaler when a hammerhead came up and swam alongside the boat. It was considerably longer than the boat, we had never seen a shark that big. We had a lot of dead fish onboard, that's probably what attracted it.
Big boats on land are small on the ocean.
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sounds like an awesome experience, controlling your emotions and staying calm would be very hard for many to do. hammerheads in la jolla. whouda thunk
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08-13-2014, 08:01 PM
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8-10' hammerhead inches away is definitely too close for comfort!
At that size range a GW might have been a safer encounter.
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Nice job keeping your cool. I don't know if I could have done the same.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eoiWtj-N49w Last edited by Bert Vega; 08-13-2014 at 08:37 PM. |
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same size shark but it had more of a brown color to it......different species I guess
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