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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Bahia Asuncion
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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.
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Join Date: Mar 2009
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Damn it Ross, you have all the fun
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 656
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Holy chit Rossman.
![]() That must have been very big shark for you to consider plan B. YIKES! |
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Bahia Asuncion
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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.
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Hacienda Heights
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![]() ![]() Thanks for the report, i guess i shouldn't go out alone recently.
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Chula Vista
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Increase in the pucker factor to the nth degree. That'll get the heart started...
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