Florida Shark

My BIL just caught this nice Dusky at our place in Florida. My jobs were hold the rod while he roped the tail and make pics. Pretty fun stuff!

Looks like fun. Never caught a shark but would like to someday. Had more than one fish eaten off my line by sharks while reeling them in.....

Great picture. We don’t see many reels that big in NE Texas ... or sharks for that matter. Thanks for sharing. Looks like a great time.

Haha me too. What’s neat is my wife (his sister) saw the fin as he approached and said, “I think you’re fixing to get a bite!”

Is that a tag in it?

Lots of fun to catch.

Yes. We didn’t think to get a photo of the number before we released it though.

You can eat them you know?

Shark steaks on the grill are great !

Not sure about Florida, but you cannot keep Dusky's in Tx. They are protected. Catch & release only.

Yes Sir! Some species are VERY good on the grill.

They are protected in FL too.

One of my favorite grilled fish..."Bluedogs" caught off San Diego...usually accidental catch while fishing for tuna, Albacore, Yellow-fin, Big-eye...but we always kept 1 or 2 blues when they showed up...grilled with a little garlic butter...poor man's swordfish steaks

Looks like fun

NP, you thinking about moving there?

We have a place there and will probably spend a lot of time there when I retire. My wife is already retired (school teacher).

Beautiful

That’s cool!

Thanks for posting it up.

Fought an 8ft Dusky on an offshore charter trip on a snapper pole for an hour with no fighting belt or chair. Captain said "it's either a shark or a huge grouper" Finally got it to the surface and saw it was a shark, Captain came over and said "I've got some bad news, that's an endangered species and we have to release it" When the deck hand pulled it up along side the boat the Captain got an approximate length and said it was probably 300lbs. Biggest fish I've ever caught.

Are Black Tips legal in Texas?

Awesome!

Nice fish!!!

Nice catch!

Caught a 400 ish pound bull shark out of Galveston............I don't go in the water much unless I see dolphins.

NP.................GD man, just retire. the beach and montana is the way to go. Sell the TX place at the high price now.

He got a big bull up to the beach last trip that was 9-10’ long but the line broke just before we tailroped him. That’s why he got the bigger reel.

Lol I hear you. I still enjoy my job too so not ready yet. But it’s gonna happen sooner rather than later. You’re right about the market right now though. It’s crazy. If we hadn’t struck when we did a few years back on the retirement places it may have been a whole different story.

Yeah, must be 24” and limited to one per day, 2 possession limit.

Two would feed a family of four or more.

They are legal here too.

Thats cool. I want to go so bad and fish the keys. Jealous nog, living the life.

I wanted to go before the kids were born or bigger, but couldn't convince the wife, now the kids are here and too small to go do all the stuff but big enough we dont want to go without them... ugh she should listen to me more often.

Won’t be long you can take them.

I want to go to the Keys too. We visited once on a cruise stop but I want to drive the bridge and spend more time there. Not the tourist spots but the more remote areas to fish also. This shark fishing is my BIL’s deal. It’s fun but too much equipment to haul around and too much waiting time for me.

I like a little more action.

Well the snook and tarpon fishing in the keys and everglades is a lot more action. I wade fish then mangrove islands when in the everglades and the guides just can't help themselves warning about the gators. Caught back to back 52" and 54" snook wading waste deep and guide said probably would not have been able to do that on boat or skiff. I'm with you the beach fishing is heavy gear and slow to me too.

Yes, and they are delicious. Just ate the last of mine last week, need to go catch some more.

Man that sounds like fun!

Man makes me want to go shark fishing.

Do you guys kayak out the baits?

Yessir. But it’s not very far out to the break here.

My last trip, in Alabama, I was dropping a bait for a large sting ray or large fish or something else that might hook into a big hook, I was paddling into some decent surf, I went straight into a wave and the whole dang kayak just flipped end over end on me. Thats how I saw it happen, and thats the story I am sticking to, not sure the video my wife took of this happening shows the exact scenario like that, but her cackling laugh while I was dumped in the water was annoying, but also funny.

We landed a couple that trip, nothing big, but we had several hook ups where line broke, hook released, and other frustrations. We had bites nearly every time we dropped bait, but was one of our more memorable unsuccessful trips overall. Makes me want to go back. Fun times for sure, even with the frustrations

I want to go for the reef/wreck fishing most. Would love to try spear fishing.

One of my buddies went tan took a guide for specks and reds in the bay. Sounded like a wasted trip why not do that here.