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Bluffer · Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2005 8:45 pm Post subject:

Could have been caught way earlier but didnt survive the release.
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moose · Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 5:09 am Post subject:

Official length was 9'8''. Female, was extremely emaciated. Might have been due to birthing or illness.

Skip, I've got pics of the inside and outside of the mouth (i'll get them up later with the entire story) - No trauma in the mouth that indicates any hook penetrations.

I helped the kids load it up in their truck bed. They had a great story about a fantastic fight on a mono leader. Rolling Eyes

They we're all excited to to take it home and get the butcher knives out...go right ahead boys, tell me how it tastes Twisted Evil

Skipjack · Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 8:19 am Post subject:

Thanks moose,

That will make alot of fisherman much happier.

Makes you wonder how many big makos lurk in the breakers at PINS
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Dink · Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 8:56 am Post subject:

Thanks Moose.

Hey, I wander if she was chasing those blue fish?

crab_n_fisher · Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 9:53 am Post subject:

Oz would know it it were blue or Mako...I stand by the latter assessment....I guess I need something besides beer to pass up my time waiting for hits on rods while on the beach! .....To me shark fishing is boring.....Then again.....so is my job! ....But I am so willing to change ---> Where my cousin is living ...... http://www.galveston.com/seascape @ 1050 month, company paid for!
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crab_n_fisher · Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 9:58 am Post subject:

Let me rectify the "boring" before I get jumped on! I am a lake and river fisherman, and I love to use bluegill or fresh carp as bait (to 3/4 lb)....in hopes of landing 50-70 lb flatheads on medium-heavy, 20 lb tackle......I generally (well, usd to!) go out fishing from Friday night until Sunday afternoon....And sometimes the "run" will not come until Sunday morning....so the wait is long!
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moose · Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 10:06 am Post subject:

Guest · Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 10:34 am Post subject:

moose · Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 11:45 am Post subject: The Real Story

Rule #1:

Don't believe every story a fisherman tells you.

Old Salt and I were headed back up to check it out after PureTexan and Osoobsessed greeted us at 41mm with the news of some Hispanic fellas who caught the mako. We got there to find a bunch of young kids and their Dad trying to load it up in the back of their truck. We got out to have a look and the young guy is acting all excited and immediately goes into a rather hard to believe story about a fight on a 9/0 with mono leader and a skipjack as bait. And according to him the fish never jumped (of course it didn't, hehe). We snapped some photos and helped them load it up. The fish was in bad condition, it just looked sick or starved to death after giving birth. I was skeptical and started to study the fish looking for signs of an anglers battle - there were none except for an old puncture wound under the mouth

The inside of the mouth didn't show the same wound on the outside and there was no sign of trauma in the throat or mouth.

I called him out on it, and asked him to show me where he hooked the fish, he couldn't produce any evidence of his story and began bumbling on. First it was hooked directly in the corner of the mouth and then it changed to being hooked further down towards the throat. I don't see any evidence of a hook penetration.

A truck with a couple of local fishermen pulled up and began to explain to OldSalt that they had snapped photos of the fish around dawn that morning when no one was around, and throughout the day there were many people who posed with the fish for photos and fabricated stories of epic proportions. HAHA

Anyways the young boys who took it seemed to be privy to the quality of Mako steaks, and they said they were cutting their trip short to go home and butcher it up. Funny thing is that the fish had been washed up for at least 7 hrs and no telling how long it was dead and floating. I don't recall what the temp was, but it was warm. MMMMMmmm spoiled mako steaks - yum.

Here's a pic of the tough and mighty fishermen with their 9/0 and mono rig and the beast they wished they had captured.

The mako was a 9'8'' female and was emacited with no sign of a fight with rod and reel.

crab_n_fisher · Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 12:01 pm Post subject:

<<<fainted...someone wake me up :O
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Dink · Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 12:22 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the pics Moose.

When I was heading back north from the 25mm, I saw that group of guys "aka mako anglers" around the 18 mm. The youngest jumped off the back of that truck and nearly into my grill. The mako was at the 21 mmm, so I'm guessing they drove up the beach.

FireLine · Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 1:11 pm Post subject:

sharks give birth during the Winter?? is that correct?
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Guest · Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 2:04 pm Post subject:

blacktips give birth until June....

moose · Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 5:15 pm Post subject:

FireLine · Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 5:47 pm Post subject:

Yeah, in case you didn't notice, fishing tournaments on TV don't give you a Discovery Channel overview.

Where's Johnny when you need him? Fish lay eggs in the spring, or give birth. Why are sharks different if it's true that they give birth in the winter?
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