I found a 150lb - 200lb bluefin tuna carcass with a bitemark the size of a garbage can lid missing from it about a month ago at the very tip of sandy hook while fishing. Made me think twice about surfing the next swell but I did anyway.
The first time I ever attempted surfed trestle me and buddy walked out on the jetty to get a closer look...when we got towards the end we noticed splashing water and then see a hammer head chomping a sand shark... Needless to say the waves were not that great so opted for 2 800's and pizza..
I've got quite a few bear pics from that day. I'm fishing just upriver from the bulk of the fisherman near a parking lot, and a ranger strolls up and says: "There's a bear coming your way shortly." I'm thinking 5 minutes, but it was more like 25 seconds. That was him. He just sat there and caught a ton of fish. I saw easily 10 grizzlies that day. Big ones, little ones, collared ones, etc. Crazy stuff up there in the salmon run. Slept in my truck that night doors locked, as if it mattered.
I see critters a few times per year at the place that shall not be named, and they're definitely not dolphins. Can ID some by their tails as sandbar sharks. Others......eh....just pull in the appendages & wait. Worth noting is that there has not been a fatal shark attack on a human in Maryland waters as long as the guvment been keeping records. Which, skeptics & stock traders would say, only means that an attack is imminent.
Along those lines, (I cant find the original article, as I read it probabyl 7-8 years ago) but it explained that the MD/DE border is home to the largest array of sharrk species on the east coast, and while certain areas (OBX and FL) have high populations of certain species for longer periods of time, that the DE/MD border is home to a very high population of all kinds of sharks. This was intriguing based on the fact that there is very little human/shark interaction in the area. While the biggest explanation for HI and FL (aside from having a lot of sharks present to begin with) is that warm water and annual air temps are what really expose the masses to more bites and interactions. I just always chalked the MD thing up to, people don't spend as much time in the ocean, and when they do, it's rather brief and they don't venture too far out. Until mid-julyish, as a kid, I could tolerate the water for about 10-15 minutes at a time before having to get out if I was just swimming. Where in the summer down here and in Florida, I see people out swimming and just sitting in the water for hours at a time. Not sure why more surfers haven't been at least bumped or investigated. Certainly an interesting stretch of coastline. I know that the shoals are sharky, but other than that, not sure why there aren't more areas with a more visible population. There are plenty of areas along that stretch that sharks love....
There's probably some confusion because there is also an atlantic shark called the sand bar shark, which is common around the chesapeake bay. The shark in the picture looks like a small sand tiger however, and that's based on those pointy well spaced teeth that are primarily used for grabbing fish. A sandbar has more triangular slicing teeth. Anyway they are pretty different but with similar names, and probably both have been commonly called sand shark. As to what bit it in half, sharks eat smaller sharks and rays. There are a lot of big sharks hanging around the southern outer banks this time of year. Like big hammerheads, and white sharks too apparently. A guy caught a white shark off the obx just a few days ago from the beach, probably the first time it's ever happened there. It was not a big sand tiger that bit in half as you can see by that little ones teeth they do not have the hardware to slice through flesh, so it was a larger shark of a different species. Also it's worth clarifying that a sand tiger shark is different than a tiger shark. The former is known to be quite passive, and usually only bites humans mistakenly in very shallow stirred up water where a hand or foot can be mistaken for a small fish. Tiger sharks on the other hand are known to be pretty aggressive, curious and they satisfy their curiousity by biting things (which would suck for you). There was a fatal shark attack in, I believe, the summer of 1987 on pea island near rodanthe that was assumed to have been a ~14 foot tiger shark but they are rare in the va/obx region nowadays. Historically I believe they were much more abundant, and they will probably make a come back as people aren't out there killing sharks off like they used to.
md coast at the nat'l park. full breach and spin by 3/4 meter gws. about 50 yards off of beach; no one else saw it. there is no doubt in my mind what it was cause when it breached it spun and i saw it from every possible angle. it was preceded by multiple lateral splashes. i reeled in my line and went and sat by the campfire.
More than likely a spinner shark. Those guys are jumpers, you see them sometimes chasing bait with schools of cobia. They are straight up badass, like jr makos but not really.
That is true, I didn't interpret the 3-4 meters part from 3/4 meters. But still I bet they were spinners, and that they were not 3-4 meters, AKA fish tales. Spinners tend to school, whereas great whites are typically lone wolfs (Seldom Status ) It's possible he saw gw's I just won't suspend my disbelief until I see it, And that's mostly out of pure denial.
thats ok. i saw it; even then i'm very close to denial. my first reaction (really) was...wow! just like the discovery channel.
