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Yak Daniels · Horse Mullet Joined: 25 Sep 2013 Posts: 148

This teams catch has stirred up a lot of ruckus in the shark fishing community. From "two swallowed hooks", to wrapped in the leader, releasing the pups and its stomach being regurgitated. Let alone the team name "Texas Shark Slayers"... There is a lot of questionable information in their post.
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Allen · Posted: Thu May 19, 2016 11:31 am Post subject:

4theReels · Posted: Thu May 19, 2016 7:46 pm Post subject:

I was at PINS on Saturday, about the 23MM, and as we were driving out to go home we noticed the guy battling the shark. It was at the 19MM. We hung around to see it brought in.
It was huge...never seen anything like it before.
I could not see close enough to notice any hooks visible...I just saw the wire leader coming out of it's mouth.
But if you look at the last picture on the link....isn't that a hook on the side of the mouth?
The guys there did say that it was a female and pregnant.
We left right after it was landed.
It was a beautiful magnificent beast......
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Jetty Bandit · Posted: Thu May 19, 2016 9:38 pm Post subject:

Allen · Posted: Fri May 20, 2016 9:41 am Post subject:

Contacted KRIS and shared this:
http://news.discovery.com/human/health/mercury-levels-off-the-chart-in-some-shark-meat-140606.htm
and got a "I'll pass it along" from them.

4theReels · Posted: Fri May 20, 2016 6:44 pm Post subject:

saltbranch · Horse Mullet Joined: 20 Jan 2010 Posts: 118

Michael called me telling me about the catch and he was pumped up and excited. I have only known him for a year or so and we run into each other on the beach and at work buying stuff from me. So its not like we are best buds or anything like that. I always got the impression he was a catch/release through our past conversations and pics he has shown me. He told me about the 2 in the gut, stomach in the mouth and hook in the jaw. Here is a screen shot from his FB and you can make your own decisions. I know right after it hit FB he was being flamed from the get go for letting it die. It seems there were alot of variables that went wrong with 2 hooks in the gut. Stomach in the mouth...is that all that normal? What about the 10'10" Mako that died not so long ago? I did not see anyone tearing into him? That Mako filleted/harvested also. When you are hooking into big animals such as these, things go wrong. Its too bad that both these animals died to be honest and it just gives fuel to those trying to stop sport fishing like this. Here are few pics and you can see the stomach in the mouth and also the J hook in the jaw.

Tyler · Site Admin Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 12865

I saw the heated exchange on FB about that. I know of several well known C&R guys who have lost sharks in the battle. Old Salts big Hammer, Oz's recent Mako etc. Lots of those hammers fight to the death in spite of best intentions on catching and releasing them. It is nice to be able to get data from satellite and other tags but even then you're risking the fish getting wrapped up in the leader, swallowing the hooks too deep, etc. and dying.
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jeff89 · Horse Mullet Joined: 27 Apr 2010 Posts: 183

We swam with our 11' Hammer for 2 hours into the early morning and it ended up not making it. Less pictures, more time getting it back in the water.
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justletmein · Posted: Sun May 22, 2016 12:40 am Post subject:

Hammers seem to frequently die during the fight, we had one die as well. None of us were there so hard to judge, but I know a lot of people are putting multiple hooks into baits and seems like it wouldn't be too far fetched to have one/two swallowed and one in the mouth. Only the guys who were there really know...

critter getter · Posted: Sun May 22, 2016 5:46 pm Post subject:

The only way to stop sharks from dying while fishing for them is to stop fishing for them THATS THE ONLY WAY!!!!!! poo poo happens and people R going to lie about shark that do r they kill because they don't want all of the heat that comes along with killing one now a days. Just the way it is. You area allowed one per day by law.
I can tell you that when we where fishing for them back in the mid 80's- early 90's there where very little C&R all most none. Most where hung up in front of Roys B&T and then dump some where and every one was doing it including the beloved Billy S. Most have come around and woke up that this is bad practice and now C&R is practiced a lot more and a lot of guy just stopped fishing for them including me. if i never catch a shark again its to soon!!!!! If this was me first and far most i wouldn't lied about killing it to try and make every one else fill good. thats where these guys messed up.