Yep - was out at 61st on Saturday with a buddy. I paddled once and hit something big with my left hand. Figured it for a bluefish. about 10 minutes later my buddy did the same, and then starts screaming about a shark. there was a 4-5 ft blacktip shark cruising right by. we freaked and got out. Been surfing here all my life and never been that close (knowingly).
Best one hands...... or is it fins down!!.......Had a guy off of Hatty last year in a 15 ft boat greeted by a Great White. He thought it was pretty cool till he noticed the shark was bigger than his boat and it kept bumping the dinner table hoping some scraps would fall off.. He was only a cpl miles out.
While I was surfing yesterday, my dad caught 3 sharks they were about 2ft. I still went back out in the water after he told me this though, haha. (Virginia Beach)
most likely your dad caught sandsharks aka dogfish which are MUCH less likely of bothering you than a bluefish is of taking off your pinky toe
I'm a shark and I commute 3 hours to the beach both ways because I make so much money. I hear other sharks and p***y dolphins whining because the have a 45minute commute. Must be because they don't have huge shark balls like me. I eat locals because I'm better than them and they're delicious.
We got salmon sharks up here and the salmon are arriving.Oh yeah, and orcas. And brown bears on the beach. Bears do a lot more damage up here than sharks. Carnage lately. Gotta be vigilant when mountain biking. Pepper spray on the handlebars and a Serbu super shorty strapped to the top tube. It's like riding single track through a war zone. You never know what's around the next bend waiting to chew your face...good times. Something's gonna get ya someday.
There was a shark out this morning. Same beach in Montauk. I am getting the feeling that this is the same shark though, and just lost.
On Thursday morning, Chief, I bumped into a friend of mine, Herbie Robinson from Cleveland. Baseball player. Boatswain's mate. I thought he was asleep. I reached over to wake him up. He bobbed up, down in the water just like a kinda top. Upended. Well, he'd been bitten in half below the waist.
it's all psychological. You yell barracuda, everybody says, "Huh? What?" You yell shark, we've got a panic on our hands on the Fourth of July.
Mayor Vaughn: [to reporter] I'm pleased and happy to repeat the news that we have, in fact, caught and killed a large predator that supposedly injured some bathers. But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the beaches are open and people are having a wonderful time. Amity, as you know, means "friendship".
Sufing ON a shark! Ok... I dont even know what to make of this!!! http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/content.php?sid=5018
OKay......this thread is SOOOOOO funny...too many awesome comments to mention them all.....I'm voting it best thread ever.
