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RE: escambia bay

Game on15 — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:45:24 GMT

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

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mdrobe2 — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:40:25 GMT

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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Frostydog — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:21:48 GMT

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

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snakeman14 — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:58:29 GMT

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

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Fishforlife2 — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:14:30 GMT

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

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tailfisher — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:07:23 GMT

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.

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seapro — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:41:53 GMT

Thats a really nice speck. Congrats. :clap

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snakeman14 — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:57:44 GMT

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 mullet and 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. i was throwin a chart spinnerbait and hooked a nice red got him up to the boat and the hook pulled:banghead. so i 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 more little 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 while i end up with a 2 1/2 ft bull 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 all bloody red on the bottom and smelled horrible so he became fertilizer. what happened to him???

well heres some pics