Not the silly movies, but some of the programming that's running on Nat Geo during Sharkfest is pretty interesting, especially the "When Sharks Attack" series.
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I’ll be honest with everyone on here as someone that lives in the panhandle. I literally used to go night fishing when we vacationed in Destin with a bag of shrimp tied to my waist almost chest deep in the gulf. That may have been some of the dumbest **** I have ever done. There are a lot of sharks out there, I have kayaked over a few of them. I think in the gulf with clear water and good light, there is a minuscule chance of it being a problem. But in low light, low visibility situations, I would not take that chance.
“Yall catchin?”
“Poppin Cork?”
No ****, I untied my stringer once....and left it in the bay....behind my running ***.
Back side of Cat Island and I was 200 yards from the boat. I had seen a few porpoises...but this wasn’t a porpoise.
Went on head and let that sand or bull shark have them 5 trots
We were MS boys that had no idea how to fish. Using dead shrimp on a bottom rig. We’d be lucky to catch a whiting, mostly hard heads. Now that I know what I’m doing I don’t even bother with surf fishing unless it’s pomp season.
You are right though, I’m floored at videos of guys wading and having a shark hit a trout that they are reeling in. When they lose it the throw that trout right back out to try and catch the shark. My *** would look like one of those Jesus lizards you see on Wild Kingdom running back to shore.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RAGS9liftwI
You are right though, I’m floored at videos of guys wading and having a shark hit a trout that they are reeling in. When they lose it the throw that trout right back out to try and catch the shark. My *** would look like one of those Jesus lizards you see on Wild Kingdom running back to shore.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RAGS9liftwI
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Yeah, that was in Maine. Said it's the first ever recorded shark death in the state. It was a great white. I never knew sharks were in New England waters until I saw Jaws - thought the water would be too cool for them.
Great Whites have been recorded swimming in great depths, which is obviously cold water. They’re all over.
I’ve had one grab my stringer before at Horn Island.
Two weeks ago I was floundering with a buddy in BSL, probably around midnight. Not a ton of luck. I’m in shin deep water. It was low tide and real muddy, so the only water we could get was a little deeper than I’d like. All the sudden about 15 feet to my right a school of mullet coming flying out of the water and there’s thrashing and water getting thrown everywhere. I walked on water getting back to ankle deep. There’s been a yuuuuge amount of juvenile bull sharks being caught of MS beaches the last month. It’s the most I’ve ever seen. I don’t know what kind of shark it was or how big it was, I just know nothing was catching me the other night.
Two weeks ago I was floundering with a buddy in BSL, probably around midnight. Not a ton of luck. I’m in shin deep water. It was low tide and real muddy, so the only water we could get was a little deeper than I’d like. All the sudden about 15 feet to my right a school of mullet coming flying out of the water and there’s thrashing and water getting thrown everywhere. I walked on water getting back to ankle deep. There’s been a yuuuuge amount of juvenile bull sharks being caught of MS beaches the last month. It’s the most I’ve ever seen. I don’t know what kind of shark it was or how big it was, I just know nothing was catching me the other night.
Yeah, the first time I went gigging, the water was real clear so I waded almost thigh deep. My friend suggested I didn’t do that. I walked to mid shin depth and sure enough 5 minutes later there was an explosion about the depth I was at. I was at ankle depth the rest of the night.
About 25 years ago we had our family on the beach in Destin and a shark attacked a teenage girl about 400 yards down the beach from us. Sadly she died before they could get her to the hospital. Bull shark bit her through the leg. We stayed in the pool after that. I don’t think that I have gotten in the Gulf since.
I hate bull sharks. They are big dumb animals that have to put their mouth on everything to see what it is. If they had arms, bites would probably go down 90%.
10 or so years ago at I was floating around in the gulf, fellow 20 feet away from me was fishing waist deep with a bag of shrimp tied to his waist. He lost his leg from the thigh down that day. I haven't been past ankle deep since, and my blood pressure goes sky high whenever my kids are out there.
I don't get int he water in the early morning or late afternoon. That's when bull sharks are most active, so you cut down on a lot of your risk right there. Not sure cutting a minuscule risk in half does much, but it makes me feel better.
I still flounder at night, but I pay a lot more attention than I used to. On the beach, the water isn't clear enough to get deep enough for it to be an issue. At Cat, I spend a lot more time getting the boat close. If we're working a rising tide, I'll make a trip back by the boat so I can pull it in closer before it gets too deep rather than having to wade out in chest deep water with a bunch of bloody fish at the end of the night.
And I never park on the east end anymore. Use to do that sometimes depending on the wind and there was sort of an outer sandbar, so we'd always at least have to wade chest deep if not swim to get to the boat. Can't believe we did that now.
Also can't believe we just left the boat there on a single anchor. Never had a problem, but seems stupid to me now that we'd drop an anchor there and go off and just assume it would hold. I mean, we checked it and always made sure it was set good, but there was enough wave action that it really wouldn't have been that outlandish for the anchor to work loose or probably more likely, for the rope to just break. Can never decide how many of the things I worry about now that I didn't use to worry about are signs of me getting less stupid, and how many of them are signs of me becoming unreasonably afraid of small risks. But there are definitely a lot of them, so I was either really stupid before, or am overly paranoid now, or I guess possibly both.
Yes, orcas are much bigger than Great Whites and live in pods.
But as far as sharks go, Whites are at the top. (No racist)
View attachment 17049 This was a Tiger Shark caught in Navarre 2 years ago. The dude came to me to do a notary for an application for a land based world record. Same guy that went viral with this.
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there's a group that goes up and down the panhandle at least catching sharks from the beach. They have caught some massive ones.
While orcas do occasionally kill white sharks, they are still considered apex predators.
https://www.wjtv.com/news/pd-14-yea...1btjkGV0G5jLaCyJBMjnuFz-cT5Edwsnx2X8XvT2xtD-Y
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