Shark Sighting - Kayak Fishing Adventures on Big Water’s Edge

rossman · 10-31-2012, 07:14 AM

Launched out of Doheney at 6:30 on Tuesday and made my way to a couple rock piles off the point. This is the first session that I've had in the last month that I was concentrating on fishing and not lobster bait, and wouldn't you know it, the area was plugged with monster macs. I couldn't get any that would be fit for bait. I managed a few quality calicos on plastic. I was on one of my drifts over the rock pile and I noticed a lobster buoy that I had not mentally taken note of before. Then I realized that this lobster buoy was moving slowly towards me, and that it was not a buoy but a dorsal fin. It continued slowly moving towards me, coming within 25 feet before veering a little and headed offshore. There as a couple guys on a skiff a little ways away from me and I called to them first of all to call attention to the shark and secondly to make sure someone had my back just in case. Because I was facing into the sun, I could not get an ID on the make and model of the shark, but from the dorsal to the tail it was at least 9 feet, and by far the largest I had ever seen in these waters. Definitely not a Thresher, maybe a Mako or a GW. The skiff started up and tried to get close enough to get pictures and ID it but it sank out before they could get close enough to get a positive ID, but they agreed that it was the largest they had ever seen too. I know that it is the sharks that you don't seen that you have to worry about, but I felt a little uncomfortable watching this thing come so close.

GregAndrew · 10-31-2012, 09:16 AM

Damn it Ross, you have all the fun

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cabojohn · 10-31-2012, 09:39 AM

Holy chit Rossman.

That must have been very big shark for you to consider plan B.
YIKES!

rossman · 10-31-2012, 09:48 AM

I think what made me most uncomfortable was that I had my back deck loaded with dead or dying macs, and I'm sure there was a lot of blood and slim going out the scuppers. To a shark I probably looked and smelled like one big bloody mackerel.

min-va · 10-31-2012, 09:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rossman

I think what made me most uncomfortable was that I had my back deck loaded with dead or dying macs, and I'm sure there was a lot of blood and slim going out the scuppers. To a shark I probably looked and smelled like one big bloody mackerel.

That could be..

at least for once, you became a trolling bait.

Thanks for the report, i guess i shouldn't go out alone recently.

raffman55 · 10-31-2012, 10:48 AM

Increase in the pucker factor to the nth degree. That'll get the heart started...

10-31-2012, 07:14 AM	#1
rossman Marginally Irrelevant Join Date: May 2007 Location: Bahia Asuncion Posts: 936	Shark Sighting Launched out of Doheney at 6:30 on Tuesday and made my way to a couple rock piles off the point. This is the first session that I've had in the last month that I was concentrating on fishing and not lobster bait, and wouldn't you know it, the area was plugged with monster macs. I couldn't get any that would be fit for bait. I managed a few quality calicos on plastic. I was on one of my drifts over the rock pile and I noticed a lobster buoy that I had not mentally taken note of before. Then I realized that this lobster buoy was moving slowly towards me, and that it was not a buoy but a dorsal fin. It continued slowly moving towards me, coming within 25 feet before veering a little and headed offshore. There as a couple guys on a skiff a little ways away from me and I called to them first of all to call attention to the shark and secondly to make sure someone had my back just in case. Because I was facing into the sun, I could not get an ID on the make and model of the shark, but from the dorsal to the tail it was at least 9 feet, and by far the largest I had ever seen in these waters. Definitely not a Thresher, maybe a Mako or a GW. The skiff started up and tried to get close enough to get pictures and ID it but it sank out before they could get close enough to get a positive ID, but they agreed that it was the largest they had ever seen too. I know that it is the sharks that you don't seen that you have to worry about, but I felt a little uncomfortable watching this thing come so close. __________________ "When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean’s skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang. " — Herman Melville Y'all come see me now, hear!

10-31-2012, 09:48 AM	#4
rossman Marginally Irrelevant Join Date: May 2007 Location: Bahia Asuncion Posts: 936	I think what made me most uncomfortable was that I had my back deck loaded with dead or dying macs, and I'm sure there was a lot of blood and slim going out the scuppers. To a shark I probably looked and smelled like one big bloody mackerel. __________________ "When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean’s skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang. " — Herman Melville Y'all come see me now, hear!

10-31-2012, 10:48 AM	#6
raffman55 Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Chula Vista Posts: 37	Increase in the pucker factor to the nth degree. That'll get the heart started... __________________ Never eat anything bigger than your head

10-31-2012, 09:16 AM	#2
GregAndrew Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 2,384	Damn it Ross, you have all the fun .

10-31-2012, 09:39 AM	#3
cabojohn PROBATION Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 656	Holy chit Rossman. That must have been very big shark for you to consider plan B. YIKES!