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We're gonna need a bigger boat...

#41
chips said:
to the person who sed humans are just easy prey... sharks can be an easy prey for us. for the person who was ranting about it being called shark KILLING... its shark fishing. its not for the purpose of KILLING sharks. most the time, big sharks like these are preserved and put in museums. and lastly, afer the length of a fight that it would take to catch a massive thing like that, most fish will be too tired/stressed to swim off and will die half the time anyway.

Peace
Chips
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The sad thing is I think I'm on your side of this issue, but your arguements hold water like a spaghetti strainer.
 
#43
Me and my brother took a little vacation the Myrtle Beach SC. We caught about 20 baby sharks off the peer, we threw them all back. This one guy caught a three footer and kept it to eat, but he threw back 10 sharks before he kept that one. In order to catch a 1100 lb shark one must know that the gear that is used in order to catch it is massive, if you get it in it must be killed, no way to resesitate it at all. Even smaller sharks say over 4-5 feet long not too many people will stick thier hands in the water to resesitate a shark like you do a Marlin ,sailfish, etc. If your going shark fishing more than likley it seems the shark is going to die in the process. Just go dolphin fishing and get it over with, maybe make a vat of sea turtle soup. Sharks are so aggressive the will hit on almost anything, fish heads, fish tails, chum, license plates, surfboards...what's the sport in that?
 
#47
RicPlaya said:
And some of you call yourselves "fisherman"......catch and release fools! Only keep it if your going to eat it....period. Take a picture and get a reproduction made if you want it mounted. This is the year 2005, we just can't go around killing everything for sport, there will be nothing left.
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"You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something."
 
#49
mike_v_s said:
I really don't care either way...but with regards to certain activities having inherent risk:

There was a clip on the local news of some lady that was stabbed by a swordfish as she reeled it close to the boat a few years ago. Slow motion replay actually showed the fish aiming for her. She lived, but was in the hospital for around a month (nearly died). I found it interesting....I'm sure some here would say she deserved it for fishing or something.

Mike
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Well, it is referred to as "sport" correct? Maybe the idiot should have trained for the fencing portion. I don't think she "deserved it", but I don't have any sympathy either.
 
#58
HarderMan said:
I think these people should sell their boats and buy a nice expensive convertible sports car, another well known and somewhat less offensive means of compensating for certain "inadequacies" :rollno:

Anyhow...I'm ranting......that is all......
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Or maybe a Sadowsky, Alembic, or whatever!?

BTW...it's a bit bigger than the Salmon I've caught. What a fight that would have been!
 
#59
syciprider said:
Seal years or human years, I have to take them to Mexico to molest them legally!
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I don't know the constant for converting human years to seal years.

For dogs it's generally 7. That means that not only does one human year = 7 dog years, but also one day = one dog week. That's why they're always lying around when you come home from work ... for them it's Saturday.
 
#60
I've fished for sharks and been on the gettin' end of a 9' lemon off of Pensacola Beach. No boat, no lights, no motorcar, nothing between my buddy and me and him but 100 yards of shallow beachfront ocean and some 100 lb test monofilament. This was 1977 and my bud built custom shark rods for one of the big tackle house on the island and I worked for the last bait house before crossing the bay bridge. We fished a lot in those days.

We did what we called "food chain" fishing. The technique came about mainly because we were poor and didn't have a boat so it was a way to get the larger bait fish needed for the sharks. We would start by working one of the docks and, using a super light 3 foot rod and open face reel, treble hook smelt to bait our larger hooks. With those, we rigged up leaders with weights for casting and we would cast into where the bonita were flushing smelt schools near the docks and jetty's. By pulling a stray smelt out of the school, we were able to lure the bonita to hit our rig and we would land 3 or 4 for the night's fishing. Bonita are a bloody fish and make the best shark bait. That night, all night, we would sit on the beach with whatever intoxicating substances were available and wait for the reels to click over. We used Penn O and OO reels on 72" rods made by Mike. No eyelets - these things had elevated stainless steel pulleys to guide the line. The rods were over 1" in diameter at the base and 1/2" at the tip. The reels themselves probably weighed close to 10 lbs each. We used a leather 5 point deep water harness for holding the rod during the fight. The night we landed the lemon, it took over 2 hours and we found we were able to swap the harness in some of the lull periods so that each of us was able to rest while the other worked the line. The process was to walk up and down the beach, keeping the line taught, with the other guy holding both sides of your waist by the harness. We would make 3 "foxholes" spaced widely apart on the beach as places to go to hunker down if things got hairy. Something that big pulling on you can yank you off your feet hard when you get fatiqued and we used the foxholes for leverage to tire out the fish. Usually though, we would just walk up and down the beach, slowly cranking in the line. The big lemon lost swimming leverage about 20 yards out so it was easy to land him. We used blunt force trauma to persuade him to give up. In the end, he ended up as some steaks and as a set of nice lacquered jaws on Mike's wall in his house.

So, as a "sport" I think we were pretty fair all in all. We took the fight to the fish hand to hand, so to speak, and did it without the use of power equipment. And at all times, we could have lost the battle by losing our footing and grip and being pulled into the surf.

My conscience rests easy. :cool:
 

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