My Contribution To Shark Week

[mn90403]

For the last few weeks I've been combining detecting and fishing on the same beaches just on different tides.  Detecting has been poor and fishing has been good if you can miss the sea grass.  Now there is some type of jelly in the water that is like a spawn and it turns gritty on the line.  It has run me off the beach also.

Tonight I got this 8-9 lb shovel nose shark.  This one or a similar one has broken me off 3 times in that location.  It had just turned dark and I had been broken off once tonight before I got the bite again.  Sharks bite with a nice, smooth pickup unlike the other croakers and perch.  I couldn't see the shark in the waves and I didn't want to break off my line again so I would surf it up with each wave but then it would go back out again.  Took me about 20 minutes on lite tackle!

 

A couple of days before I caught the 8 yellowfin croaker in about two hours just before sunset.   The big ones are over 2 lbs.

 

Then there are the finds.  Not much to say about them at this point.  Dankowski settings with the Manticore/11.  It sees pretty deep but I have to dig if it says iron/red numbers and when it comes out of the hole it can be a coin.  Not much gold on our beaches right now.

 

 

[mn90403]

Tonight's little shark!

[rvpopeye]

👍Nice looking baby  90403 !

(WAY more fun getting the hook back on those babies! 🥸)

[dig4gold]

What do you do with the fish you catch? Eat them I hope. Not just catch, kill & throw away.

D4G

[dirtman]

The cute necklace multi color beads with what look like pearls in between, did you place a pearl between your teeth and see if it feels smooth or Gritty ?

🤔

[TE Gold]

Those croakers look a lot like our Mulloway, or jewfish in australia, or kob in South Africa. 

[mn90403]

3 hours ago, dig4gold said:

What do you do with the fish you catch? Eat them I hope. Not just catch, kill & throw away.

D4G

The fish I keep and eat or give to friend to eat.  Sharks are released alive.  The big shark swallowed the hook so I cut the line and as soon as it hit the wave it was gone.  It may become food for the juvenile great white sharks that are in the area jumping.

[mn90403]

1 hour ago, dirtman said:

The cute necklace multi color beads with what look like pearls in between, did you place a pearl between your teeth and see if it feels smooth or Gritty ?

🤔

At your 'request' I just looked at them.  It does feel gritty but all of them are also 'worn' so that the thin layer on the outside shows a plastic type of bead under it.  At best this would be a large 'seed' placed inside an oyster and left for a number of months before removing them.  I never considered that until feeling the grit and the layer is very thin but the color is good.  It is strung with the rubber/expandable type of material.

[mn90403]

47 minutes ago, TE Gold said:

Those croakers look a lot like our Mulloway, or jewfish in australia, or kob in South Africa. 

The croakers look a bit like East Coast Crokers where I grew up and also similar the Red Fish/Red Bass but Red Fish taste much better.