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tsitas

Joined: 01/15/2009
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posted 06/18/2010 06:09 PM

sharking

anyone sharking out off shinnecock or moriches tommorow ?
fantasea channel 68

pmeggers

Joined: 10/14/2009
Posts: 15
Location: East Lyme, CT

posted 06/19/2010 12:31 AM

ill be outa mtk (not in tourny) goin for some bft and shark..."mojo" on 68

Saltwaterfishin

Joined: 06/02/2008
Posts: 6

posted 06/19/2010 08:05 PM

Heard that someone landed and brought in a great white of Friday. Any truth to that?

Cowbass

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posted 06/19/2010 08:57 PM

Better not be!!! If you don't know there's a moratorium on white sharks, you shouldn't be shark fishing!! Let alone fishing in a big torny!!! Frown

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lowlands

Joined: 02/21/2004
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posted 06/19/2010 10:07 PM

Easy tonto, it's not that easy to tell a gw from a mako. Yeah, I know, you should know how, but a lot of guys who have never seen a gw could make that mistake. It's happened before during tournies.

My guess is that if it happened, they thought they were bringing in a mako.

Still a shame. Know how to id them. GW's are becoming more common up here.

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posted 06/19/2010 10:13 PM

You go easy!!! It's not that easy??? Like I said !!!

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Saltwaterfishin

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posted 06/19/2010 10:37 PM

Would think the color and the teeth would be a dead give away. In addition, the pointed nose of the Mako is very distinctive.

Cabofb

Joined: 06/03/2010
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posted 06/19/2010 10:42 PM

lowlands wrote:
Easy tonto, it's not that easy to tell a gw from a mako. Yeah, I know, you should know how, but a lot of guys who have never seen a gw could make that mistake. It's happened before during tournies.

My guess is that if it happened, they thought they were bringing in a mako.

Still a shame. Know how to id them. GW's are becoming more common up here.

you are kidding me, look at the mouth/teeth configuration, the fin shape and placement, the color of the fish and the shape. Just because it happened before and "they thought it was a mako" is
,not a reason to blast a guy that says they shouldn't be fishing if they don't know what they are fishing for and especially in a money tournament. I can't believe that someone would defend such a stupid move if this did in fact happen!

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posted 06/19/2010 10:52 PM

I agree, if you cant ID what your fishing for you have no business being out there. If someone did bring in a white I can imagine the fines being enormous. They are federally protected. Shark fishing is dangerous. Too many yahoos out there who dont know what the *&^% they are doing. I got a big boat so lets go out there and just give it a shot with no one on the boat who has ever done it. Good way to get killed.

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cutnrun

Joined: 02/02/2010
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posted 06/19/2010 11:09 PM

Great white brought in!!

I fished the tournament....saw the biggest great white of my life, 20 feet behind the boat.... must have been 1500 lbs.
It is true that someone brought one in!! It was not a mistake on his part... he was announcing on the radio that he had caught a great white.... but all of us listening thought he had released it!! no one thought he was bringing it to the dock.... even at the captain's meeting it was re-iterated multiple times that this was illegal.
Not only was he arrested, his boat seized by the DEC, charged $25,000 fine but he was also charged with endangering the welfare of a minor because he brought the fish on the boat with his 6 year old on the boat!
I'm not sure what this guy was thinking or why he really didn't realize how serious the implications of his actions were...... but what about the others on his boat?? Wasn't he fishing with anyone who had the sense to clue him in??

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posted 06/19/2010 11:22 PM

cutnrun wrote:
I fished the tournament....saw the biggest great white of my life, 20 feet behind the boat.... must have been 1500 lbs.
It is true that someone brought one in!! It was not a mistake on his part... he was announcing on the radio that he had caught a great white.... but all of us listening thought he had released it!! no one thought he was bringing it to the dock.... even at the captain's meeting it was re-iterated multiple times that this was illegal.
Not only was he arrested, his boat seized by the DEC, charged $25,000 fine but he was also charged with endangering the welfare of a minor because he brought the fish on the boat with his 6 year old on the boat!
I'm not sure what this guy was thinking or why he really didn't realize how serious the implications of his actions were...... but what about the others on his boat?? Wasn't he fishing with anyone who had the sense to clue him in??

Like I said Yahoos.

Just because you can, doesnt mean you should.

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posted 06/19/2010 11:28 PM

Sounds like the exact type of jerkoff I was talking about!!! Shouldn't have even been out there. Such a shame!!!! Too bad you don't need a license to have kids.

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bigfisherman12

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posted 06/19/2010 11:42 PM

how much did the great white weight?

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posted 06/20/2010 06:03 AM

We fished that tourney a few years ago, and someone brought in a protected species, thinking it was a tiger shark.

It was all kept very quiet though, and the biologists there took advantage to get samples from the shark they don't usually get and I don't believe any fines were levied. As I recall, the boat even fished the next day.

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