I hope they didn’t charge the party for the charter, though.
Yes we did.
And furthermore since the biologists realized it was the largest MALE mako they had ever heard of, they asked for it to be left intact for a dissection the next morning.(female makos go over a thousnd pounds) We talked the charter into leaving it intact for the biologists.
We put it in a tuna bag, iced it down and the biologists (state and Federal) dissected it yesterday morning while I was out fishing.
The stomach contained 2 dissolved stripers, some tuna meat , and some dissolved heavy monofilament fishing line.
The charter filmed the tuna fight and the mako attack on the tuna, and then filmed my mate Taylor fighting the mako. They said they would send me a disc with the film footage on it. - Tom