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Stand Up Paddle => Fish Tales, Stand Up style => Topic started by: Admin on January 24, 2010, 07:55:33 AM
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JRiggs sent this over for posting. Not sure if this is fact or fiction, but hooking that gal with something meant for striped bass?
(http://www.standupzone.com/shark0.jpg)
(http://www.standupzone.com/shark1.jpg)
Sent: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:12:43 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Cape Lookout Shark
Cape Lookout is but a hop skip and jump from Morehead City. So much for swimming at the Cape.
Morehead City, NC while the vessel 'Dawn Raider' out of Anchorage Marina in Atlantic Beach, NC was fishing for Striped
Bass (also locally known as Stripers), this Great White was hooked in the mouth but only resisted slightly for 15
minutes before it came up alongside the boat to have a look; long enough for one of the crew members to slip a rope around its tail !!! 'And that's when things heated up!! .
The Shark took off towing the 42 foot fishing boat backwards through the water at about 7 Knots. Just like in JAWS, the boat was taking
on water over the stern and the crew watched in horror as the shark would actually jump completely out of the water at
times. This went on for an hour before the shark finally drowned. She weighed in at 1035 LBS.
It is suspected she followed a weak El Nino current into local waters in search of food. Although mid 60 degree water is considered ideal
for these sharks, the larger ones can tolerate water in the low 50s.
Anchorage Marina
Atlantic Beach, NC
NOTE: THE TAIL FIN IS THE SIZE OF A MAN!!!
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Didn't happen here.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/yarmouth.asp (http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/yarmouth.asp)
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Damn that thing looks scary and huge.
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Cough...BS...Cough... ;D
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awww what a cute little fella!
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I'm going for a bike ride.
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I've seen those photos before, long ago. And that's not a Great White, it's clearly a Mako, and a damned big one. I couldn't kill a splendid predator like that unless I had to.
So yeah, I'd say Bullshit.
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Sounds a little fishy.
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still an impressive beast...even if it was a Canadien
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I saw a Tiger outside the lineup at Kanaha today that would probably be somewhere in the ballpark of that size. I think he was lurking around a momma humpback and her baby. I'd say it was after placenta but the baby was pretty good size--don't think it was new. I saw it's dorsal twice, once with the tail showing about eight feet back and once with the second dorsal showing about six feet back. Probably 15-16 feet long. Could be the guy that hangs at the harbor breakwall often, but it looked bigger.
I've decided not to tell people anymore when I see these guys. I don't think it matters, they're there all the time whether someone sees one or not. No point in bumming folks out.
Kenaha was wonderful today, and I was amazed at how much life I saw, even without my sunglasses. The whales (mom & kid plus a big guy doing breaches outside), the tiger, three leopard rays hanging out with two turtles (never seen that before, wonder what that was all about) a school of surgeonfish, a school of those yellow-tailed mullet looking fish that I can never remember the name of, and a big parrotfish.
Wonderful day. The surfing has been so fantastic all winter, I'm just blown away.
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From the photo title looks like it was taken off Block Island
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Axe, no....i put that title on it to scare a friend, as it looks loke the ferry dock at point judith....but it's not.....should have deleted that label sorry....i've had that picture in inventory for some time.
It was the same fish as DW said....from Nova Scotia
That doesn't make Block Island safe though.....
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maybe it's better to be confused about the location anyway?
I believe that a shark should go anywhere it wants.
The first tag of the great whites tagged in September off cape cod just showed up in Jacksonville Florida last week
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LOL...nice trick on a friend.
A CCBC friend, Jody, had a 16' GW swim right under his board off whitecrest. I tried not to think about it the following weekend with murky water from the pumping surf and 100's of seals in the water.
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I dont think Makos get that big..
It is Illegal to Kill great whites here in the states...Just a bull shot story..
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That shark was caught off of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia (1.5hrs from my home town). The story has been re-purposed many times over the years.
http://www.marinebiodiversity.ca/shark/english/derbies.htm (http://www.marinebiodiversity.ca/shark/english/derbies.htm)
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I dont think Makos get that big..
It is Illegal to Kill great whites here in the states...Just a bull shot story..
Yeah, they do. Shortfin Makos (which is what this is) get up to 13 feet and 1700 pounds. That's rare, and average is more like eight feet and 600 pounds.
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Had a friend get attacked surfing off Kuau a few years back. Not a scratch on him only teeth marks on the board. It was determined to be a 10+ foot tiger. I guess that makes me safe just knowing someone who already got attacked. ;D I mean, what are the odds?