snakeman14

this is gonna be a long post lol

well took the boat out for the day hoping for a slam. went over toward jims first and picked up two flounder and a few dinky reds and specks. i caught some menhaden and mulletand headed to a few spots looking for the specks and reds. got to the first spot through out one of the menhaden not 5 min later a nice 24" speck. so im thinkin i got this slam in the bag. hit the rest of the spots and ended up catchin dinky reds and specks with two of the specks being 20" and 21" :banghead well it was gettin late so i headed to macky cove for a last ditch effort for the red.iwas throwin a chart spinnerbaitand hooked a nice red got him up to the boat and the hook pulled:banghead. soi anchored up and set rods out with drags loose and all. two at the bow [one with mullet on surface and one on bottem with menhaden] and two at stern. was there about 30 min when one rod off the bow starts screamin. i set the hook and fight whatever it was for about 5 sec and it goes dead. i bring it back in, the 15lb leader was destroyed so i rerig with heavier leader. all of a sudden the rod at the back starts screamin, bows over and goes overboard. i jump in after my rod and right before i hit the water i see the 8 ft bull shark that has my rod no more than 20 yards from me, being followed by 4 morelittle ones. well rod lost i get my rear end back in the boat as quick as i can. right as i get back in the boat the rod i rerigged bows over. i set the hook and after fightin for a little whilei end up with a 2 1/2 ftbull shark.

well after that i called it a day. i lost a slam, a rod, and thats the closest ive ever been and ever want to be to that size shark again. i had heard little sharks were good eatin but when i got home he had turned allbloody red on the bottom and smelled horrible so he became fertilizer. what happened to him???

well heres some pics

seapro

Thats a really nice speck. Congrats. :clap

tailfisher

that would of been great to catch the shark with your other rod in its mouth,anyway nice fish and it really sucks when you lose a rod.

Fishforlife2

nice fish about the shark did you gut it when you caught it?

snakeman14

no i left the shark whole, i just put him in the ice chest. are you suppose to gut them???

Frostydog

Pretty sure you need to bleed them out. Something about the ammonia in their blood.

mdrobe2

Sharks pass urine through their skin, so they need to be bled when caught- we used to behead ours but we were novices- it worked though. We ate a lot of shark fried and fed it to a bunch of folks who "didn't eat shark." A 24" speck is a damn good fish. Nice work.

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Game on15

Some people cut there tail off to bleed them out and i also heard you are supposed to remove the urine sack, but i was down toward macky cove a couple of days ago and there was somthing crushin bait fish just couldnt get them to eat