not a yellow but just as much fun

[fishchaser25]

started the day early with a 430am launch. worked my way out to the usual spot and eventually found 3 greenbacks. 2 candybar sized and one monster mac about 14 inches long. after only seeing 4 fsh landed and having no luck i decided to head north and look for threshers. I made ny way to the NW corner of the reserve and reriged y bait rod wit the monster mac. after only about 15 mn my reel starts to sing that beautiful sound ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. I quickly grab my rod and put the reel in gear and start to wind down. once i feel solid preasure I pull back on the circlehook and it's fish on as a nice thresher comes flying out of the water. after about a 45 min battle i got the T up to color. then as im about to grab the tail it lights up and just about jumps on my lap. then jiveg me a little love tap and the fight resumes. 10 minutes later Iget it to olor again and this time the game is over and the T is chillen on my lap. a cupple quick on the water shots and back to the beach. after landing and a few more quick snap shots we load up the yaks and head home with a nice T

















good luck out there guys.

[Gino]

I like the first pictures Bud, Best barn kelp snag pictures i have ever seen!

Your super lucky people give you fish, even that Thresher!

and the last picture, man you shouldnt crouch over! you need a diet i see jelly rolls!




Now that thats over with, Nice pictures and Nice fish homie. Its nice to see ya make it out on the water.

[the dude]

dude, are you trunkin' it @4:30am in december? udaman.... Nice fish too.

nice job man
WTG!

[WahooUSMA]

Nice, Chris!

[habanero]

Beautiful fish! If I was going to keep one, I would like it to be that size. Is the tail any good to eat anyone?

[yaky yak]

congratulations on the shark. They are fun to catch.

[THE DARKHORSE]

Bring your friends next time, Chris.

[bentrod1]

Looks like a yt is jumping behind you in the first pic. Or maybe a great white fin??

[-scallywag-]

Not only did you harvest a baby female.....it doesn't even look like you bled it. What a waste!!!!
I know you think your cool (by the way are you sure YOU caught this one?) posting sharks but threshers are stupid (hungry) to the point of being annoying, and i'm sure most people reading this have hooked into one in the last couple weeks. If your not sure why threshers are important to our fisheries research it, or better yet PM me.

Karma = I hope you surf....go eat a big thresher steak, then paddle out to blacks and try and catch a wave.

[Iceman]

Nothing wrong with debating the ethics in keeping sharks but please leave out the personal attacks and name calling, it gets ugly fast.

[FISHIONADO]

Originally Posted by -scallywag-

Not only did you harvest a baby female.....it doesn't even look like you bled it. What a waste!!!!
I know you think your cool (by the way are you sure YOU caught this one?) posting sharks but threshers are stupid (hungry) to the point of being annoying, and i'm sure most people reading this have hooked into one in the last couple weeks. If your not sure why threshers are important to our fisheries research it, or better yet PM me.

This guy was following regulations. You should direct your energy at the DFG and their regulations.

You've got me interested, please share why we should not take threshers and why the DFG should change the regulations. I didn't find the answer with a quick google search. I'd rather trust the DFG regulations than some scallywag on the internet. Start another thread with a compelling argument and you might have an impact.

Hope you catch some good surf and chill a little.

[-scallywag-]

My apologies to fishchaser and anyone else I offended with my previous post, I was outa line. Thanks Andy for editing my post, i am truly the Richard here.

I love the ocean and all its yummy (and not so yummy) animals, particularly sharks. So when I read this entertaining, well written post, followed by some awesome pictures, followed by some not so awesome pictures I was bummed. One because they obviously did enough research to find where the sharks where and what to use (wire leader/circle hook). And, two, after seeing a shark un-bled on the beach (for a second time) it makes me wonder if they are even eating these sharks, or just taking them for sport. Hopefully they just don't know any better.

The reasons I don't HARVEST T's, very similar to why most anglers don't keep marlin or swordfish:

I am fascinated with sharks, but T's are my favorite for so many reasons. Neat colors, fast, strong fighters, lotsa breaches when hooked, don't bother you when spear fishing, unique shape and hunting tactics, quasi warm blooded, advanced optics in an ancient predator, exc...

They are a top tier predator and instinctually selective. They have few natural enemies and they instinctually pray on slow, week or sick prey. This insures healthy breeding stocks by removing the ill equipped. Without natural selection you end up with a "genetic cesspool" of sorts....similar to that of the ever present Homo sapiens.

Tsharks have highly developed optics and are "warm bodied" (I think makos are the only other shark that can generate/regulate body temp) which makes them highly adapted to hunting in deep waters where those ugly rojo diablos (Humboldt squid) live. Read about the Humboldt squid in wiki... I believe the highly adaptive and fast growing H.squid has the ability to wipe out fisheries in a relatively short period of time if there are no other apex predator to compete for food with. Or better yet the T.shark may be one of the H.squid's only natural predators besides toothed whales (just my theory).

Like all large sharks, threshers have a low fecundity (mature in 7-13years, 2pups, 9mo gestation) and are therefore highly vulnerable to over fishing. They have been recently classified as vulnerable to extinction.

As for DFG, I believe that this time last year DFG had considered a "no take" period for threshers or punch tag (certain #of fish per tagged angler) so they are obviously concerned about them. I'm sure the gill net ban helped take some pressure off these fish, along with responsible fishing practices by most sport fishermen (circle hooks, live bait, hookless trollers, CP&R especially for females).

That said, as a sport fisherman I have no problem with targeting, harvesting and eating any legal fish or targeting them and releasing them for that matter. I do have a problem with killing a fish just to say you did. In the future please consider CP&R'ing sharks, or if you really wanna keep one at least try to take a similar size male, its not like they’re hard to catch?
If you wanna target T's from a yak for fun, but don't want to harm or harvest one, try using a 40-50lb flouro leader to the circle hook/live bait, usually the shark will break off after a couple jumps, if not, its easy to cut (unlike a wire leader). Also read this, lotsa good info on here if you wanna play nice with the T's.


http://www.bloodydecks.com/forums/at...st-tshark2.jpg

[JrBasser]

Ignore the science lesson. It shows up just about everytime the threshers are around. Nice fish!

[fishchaser25]

look scallywag you can lay off the rant cuz i really dont care about your self ritghteous love for threshers. the fact is it I like to eat threshers and I target fish under 200# because anthing larger is near impossable to land on a kayak and what am I going to do with 200+ pounds of steaks. plus I only keep one or two threshers a year. the fact is I only keep what im going to eat and if you have a problem with that then sorry. O and for the record I did bleed the shark and I also grilled some that same night and it was great. Jimday thank you very much and I really appreciate all your info. thanks to everyone els who saw this post for what it really was. A REPORT. so please save your lectures for some1 who cares (scallywag)

[Fiskadoro]

Originally Posted by fishchaser25

Jim Day thank you very much and I really appreciate all your info.

Cool... I'm glad you didn't take offence.

My take on your catch is it's a legal catch, and if you want to take one that is your business. It's not like you were out in a skiff hammering the sh!t out of them.

I wish the DFG would change some regs and put a size limit on them but until then more power to you.

I'm just blown away your out there in shorts I would of been freezing my ass off

Jim

[fishchaser25]

Originally Posted by Jim Day

Cool... I'm glad you didn't take offence.

My take on your catch is it's a legal catch, and if you want to take one that is your business. It's not like you were out in a skiff hammering the sh!t out of them.

I wish the DFG would change some regs and put a size limit on them but until then more power to you.

I'm just blown away your out there in shorts I would of been freezing my ass off

Jim

Hell Ya i was cold as all hell.

[Gino]

Originally Posted by fishchaser25

look scallywag you can lay off the rant cuz i really dont care about your self ritghteous love for threshers. the fact is it I like to eat threshers and I target fish under 200# because anthing larger is near impossable to land on a kayak and what am I going to do with 200+ pounds of steaks. plus I only keep one or two threshers a year. the fact is I only keep what im going to eat and if you have a problem with that then sorry. O and for the record I did bleed the shark and I also grilled some that same night and it was great. Jimday thank you very much and I really appreciate all your info. thanks to everyone els who saw this post for what it really was. A REPORT. so please save your lectures for some1 who cares (scallywag)

You told me you got one that was 400lbs from your x-factor!!

[Billy V]

Thresher Jack 1st. Place Fish 586 lbs. My crazy cousins from Jersey. - several fish were released that day.

[dorado50]

No worries from me Chris, I for one know that you are a good and knowlegable(sp)fisherman....nice report