For all of you dog lovers, you gonna love this one.
I went out on a charter from Montauk last summer. The capt. told me a story about a friend of his that had a reliable means of attracting makos. While many people use firecrackers, mako magnets, etc. to create noise in their slick, this particular individual would bring his cat for the job. He would put the cat in a hopsack, tie the hopsack to an intertube so that the bottom of it would barely get wet, and send the innertube off into the slick with the cat wailing. The high-pitched screaming would call in the snaggle-tooths from all directions. According to the capt., such methodology would only work for about a year. Seemed strange to me why it would only last that long so I inquired. Well, it seems that on a trip sometime early into the second season, this individual was little slow on the "uptake" and the mako.....well, had himself a little snack.