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06-17-2006, 06:17 PM
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OK! I'm stoked!! Who wants to go shark fishing this summer? I'm sooo serious. |
06-17-2006, 06:31 PM
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I am with ya Pan! Hey you have anyone that can cut up some nice thick shark steaks crusted with Lemon pepper and sauteed in butter man getting hungry thinking about it.
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06-17-2006, 08:38 PM
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Chrose... that looks more like my speed... but I still saw sand... YUCK! Sand is like split pea soup... it's the 'gift' that keeps on giving...as soon as you think you got rid of it, there is always more!
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06-17-2006, 09:09 PM
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We make a couple of annual snapper runs. If the commercials have gutted the area we always take a few small shark for eating. They make the best fish tacos. They don't cook so fast in marinade. |
06-17-2006, 10:27 PM
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Originally Posted by panini we always take a few small shark for eating. They make the best fish tacos. They don't cook so fast in marinade. | I must humbly disagree with you... Alaskan Halibut Tacos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  |
06-17-2006, 11:07 PM
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06-18-2006, 05:05 AM
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Hard to believe but we humans are not on the top of a sharks menu when it comes to their eating habits. Consider this, in a study done years ago it was found that males are attacked 8 to 1 over females. Is that saying sharks prefer males over females? Neither. Its just we fellas enter the domain of the shark more than females do. Also when a surfer is out there dangling arms and legs off of a surf board from below to a white shark looks like lunch to him;with their favorite prey being seals he does not know the difference. Case of mistaken identity? Who knows? The white shark is an ambush predator. His attacks occur mostly from below at lightening speed driving the unsuspecting prey many feet out of the water. Many times they never see it coming.
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06-18-2006, 03:25 PM
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I personally don't do sharks...**** I avoided the beach back home in Florida just because there was a crab problem! You couldn't set your foot down in the water lest you get chased out of the water by the little buggers...
Also, who says pools are safe from sharks? Hasn't anybody seen thunderball? Remember the sharks in the pool? |
06-18-2006, 03:31 PM
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Originally Posted by Blade55440 I personally don't do sharks...**** I avoided the beach back home in Florida just because there was a crab problem! You couldn't set your foot down in the water lest you get chased out of the water by the little buggers...
Also, who says pools are safe from sharks? Hasn't anybody seen thunderball? Remember the sharks in the pool? | Blade I know what you mean I got nailed on the toe by a crab in about neck deep water and I cleared the water and landed on the raft. No wonder they put rubber bands on the claws of these things they HURT!!
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06-18-2006, 03:33 PM
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Did you know if you catch a blue crab and flip that sucker over and rub it's "belly" it just stops cold and lays there?
Good luck pickin one up though.
As for getting nipped... There's a place back home called "Crab Island" (not an island, just a section of shallow water everybody parties at).
No matter what you're doing, you always have your eyes open for a blue crab, they come out of nowhere and nip your toe if you get too close, had my finger sliced open by one once. |
06-18-2006, 04:18 PM
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LOL April, bad tippers, thats true. |
06-18-2006, 10:30 PM
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I too have very little interest in swimming in the ocean, but have always been fascinated by sharks. I also like eating shark on occasion. That being said, they are treated pretty badly by humans. Seeing a video of dozens or hundreds of sharks with their fins cut off being thrown back in the water from Asian fishing trawlers is pretty disturbing. I've also watched parts of shark fishing tournaments on the OLN network, and these guys brutalize the Makos, Blues, and Threshers they're catching. Once, I would like to see one of these knobs fall in the water.
If anybody is interested in a great read about White sharks and the people obsessed with studying and protecting them, they should check out "The Devil's Teeth" by Susan Casey. She spends some time on the Farallon Islands with a group of scientists. Some of these guys have been featured on "Shark Week". Informative and exciting. They call the huge female whites that inhabit that area in the fall, "The Sisterhood".
Overall, the White gets a bad rap. Beware the Bull Shark. That's been the main problem in Florida, and really around the world. They can live in fresh water, and are responsible for many shallow water attacks in rivers in South Africa, India, etc.
Sorry if I sound preachy. I say if ya swims wit 'em, ya takes ya chances.
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06-19-2006, 09:49 AM
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Originally Posted by chrose You know what floats around waist level?  
As I said, I do enjoy chlorine!!!  |   |
06-19-2006, 11:16 AM
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Since we are sharing stories...
I was in Daytona in '03 for our anual business trip. Our hotel is right on the beach, and I got talked in to going for a swim (not something I had ever done in the 9 years we have been going). After several hours of evening time swimming we retreated to the hotel and turned on the news and watched report after report of a 3 week long string of shark attacks that had taken place in the county we were in! I have not gotten back in the water since then. I was going to try again this year -- though after reading this thread, maybe not!  They really are magnificent creatures. I just don't want to be swimming around in their cereal bowl! LOL!
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06-26-2006, 08:02 PM
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Good eating sometimes, but nothing revolts me more than to see a shark shoved off a boat intact but for his fin. Such rapaciouness is passed understanding. It is no more or less than the armies of Hannibul, Or Ghengis Khan transversing the european continent so long ago. Or the Romans they were trying to deseat. Who had done that before them. Unrestrained and willful murder.
And we think we are civilised. So go bite a dolphin. Eat your dog, someone elses child would do. Sorry people, some things make me angry. | | |
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