Confessions of a Killer

[steveooo]

Originally Posted by lamb

I hear another guy has a story too!

Since no one else is confessing, I’ll share

First off, big thanks to Matt, who swore he'd get me on a T one day, even if he had to sell his first born.
Woke up at 3am to get to the shores at a decent hour. Met Andrew and John at the launch- Cool Peeps. Had a very ungraceful, cold and wet launch to wake me up. Skipped making bait and went straight out. Dropped a frozen squid on a dropper loop to the bottom and started the Yo-Yo game. On the second drop my Tady gets slammed about ten feet below the boat, on the drop. It hit so hard I got an immediate birds nest. As I was pulling out line I notice that my line is slack. As I notice that, out of the corner of my eye I see and hear a gray SPLASH behind me. I reel up the slack and get an immediate
After purposely (and unsuccessfully) chasing Thresher sharks for so long, I thought it was ironic that I hooked one almost right after I had given up hope of ever catching one, and made my peace with myself about it.

I had him to the boat the first time after about a minute. I saw he was mouth-hooked for an instant, before he took off deep into the abyss, almost pulling me over. The second time I got him near the boat he just stayed about ten feet below the yak, and seemed pretty content there.
When I thought he was tired enough I brought him up, grabbed my jig, and dispatched him fairly easy. The entire fight only lasted about 15 minutes. I put on a quick tail rope and peddled over to some ex-yakers on a PB to get my pic taken.





I think he was a perfect size. Not too big, but big enough to vacuum seal 54 individual size portions.



I will cook some up tonight, but you guys can feel free to kick me down with your best T- Shark recipes.


And of course, the video with the bumping soundtrack…

[T Bone]

Good work Steveooo! Nice requiem sound track.I am going out tomorrow and see what I can drum up.

[Dan]

super video steveoooooooooo

[Matt]

Phook Yea buddy!!! I wish i could have been there to see it!!! CONGRATS and about time



and all hail the mighty lobster smiley!!!

[Holy Mackerel]

Good size to eat, less mercury, non-breeder. T-shark is good in shiskabobs....!

chris

[Dennis]

... That was great.

[Geoffkoop]

Love the video!

[KennyHill]

Thats a hell of a way to end the year! congrats

[steamroll]

LOL at the video!!

[Quilted Germ]

Great vid.....love the music! I was expecting LL Cool J

[ratdog]

Steve, congrats on your first "T"

[lamb]

Nice!

background music,

is just...

I just cooked some up for the dinner from last spring... Just tossed in lemon pepper, grilled with some olive oil. It was delicious! Ts are hard to screw up on the grill, they cook real easy.

[Handymansd]

No one has waited longer and deserves it more than you Steve! Congrats!

Try Olive Oil with Garlic on a well oiled grill! Simple yet very good that way!!

[CandyCatcher]

Nice Fish! Glad to See 2 of the 4 yaks caught big fish that day!!!

[forefrazier]

Nice job there Steve....Way to go on a nice T!

[Zed]

Nice steveooo.
You know I heard there was threshers off La Jolla...

Relax. Breathe thru your nose. Ha.

[TheRatYak]

Thanks for the video and congrats on your first thresher.

[Dan W.]

My favorite part was you knifing the shark as the beautiful music played. I laughed out loud (I don't LOL). Congrats!

[yakrider]

nice job...
award winning footage, too...

[THE DARKHORSE]

I absolutely love the video, awesome!