Posted on 09/18/2009 2:55:35 PM PDT by Rebelbase
Autopsy: Shark killed man who washed up in Kill Devil Hills (Late Night Snack in NC)
I am really sorry for my sickness.
Dreadful. RIP.
Preach it. It was still a great place in the 1970s and 1980s, but it’s been ruined now...especially Nags Head.
When they changed the route of the beach road so more of a golf course’s property could be quote-unquote BEACHFRONT, I knew it was time for me to stop going.
In the 60’s, my dad took us camping at Salvo (south of Nags Head) every summer. Loved it!
Yes, in the 60’s we went to Cape Hatteras every year for vacation, also camping.
We took the Ferry across the Chesapeake Bay, and ferries all the way down to Hatteras.
Those were great vacations!
My dad and I used to go surf fishing down there, and also just south of the Bonner Bridge at Oregon Inlet.
Do you remember the tiny US Post Office at Salvo?
I’ve seen really big sharks run up halfway on the beach chasing schools of fish, and flip back into the water. Visibility is low in the surf, they will bite anything their nose touches.
I’ve only had one close call with sharks that I’m aware, as a child, and it was out on the Banks at Nags Head.
My dad and I were paddling out to a sandbar that had formed due to a storm passing the week before, people were finding some amazing conch shells and such. You could see them standing in knee deep water, a hundred yards or more out, with breakers forming beyond the sandbar. We were paddling out lying on those navy and bright yellow, inflatable deals the lifeguards rented out.
The water was pretty deep between the beach and that sandbar. About halfway there, we heard a commotion on the beach, people yelling, lifeguards standing in the surf, and started looking around to see what they were going on about. Turns out they were yelling at us. About that time, three dark forms passed right beneath us. It’s a sickening feeling, not knowing whether to freeze or paddle for dear life. They apparently were trapped there by the sandbar. Nobody was bitten or attacked by them that I’m aware.
It is still a great place, just not like it used to be.
LOL and que the music!
The one I am referring to is The Villages at Nags Head.
I was not implying that the course itself was beachfront, rather that the lots the resort were selling when it was developed are.
If you know when that place was built, you know that the beach road (Virginia Dare Trail) was relocated for a short stretch so that part of it is right beside the 158 Bypass. This made more of the golf course/resort’s property between the beach road and the high tide line.
Anyway, I usually go to Topsail Island now. MUCH less crowded.
Excellent! I hope you have a good vacation.
That's largely true, but not exclusively; some species of dogfish hae been found in fresh estuaries. Bulls are amazing creatures and have been found well over 2,000 miles upstream in the Amazon, and as far north as Cairo, Illinois up the Mississippi River.
There's some conjecture that a great white was responsible for some of the inland attacks at Matawan Creek NJ in 1916, but that has never been substantiated, and most icthyologists agree that a great white would have limited, or no tolerance or freshwater. It is noteworthy however, that juvenile porbeagles (a close relative of the great white) have been found in brackish estuaries.
So all of a sudden the drag starts to whine like the other end is attached to a pickup truck at full speed. In about a half second, the spike was pulled forward and the rod shot to the water. I managed to get a grip before it washed into the water, only to have the leader break.
I still wonder what did that; how big of a shark.
Were you surfing out there? I was there w/ some friends last weekend (11th-14th), we were impressed by the surfing.
I’ve gotten spooled a couple of times in the late afternoon on hits that broke the line, 20# test.
Spend a couple of nights on the beach at Cape Lookout a few years ago with some serious shark fishermen. These guys had rod harnesses and 300# test lines with deep sea ocean reels.
One of them would drop the bait from a Kayak about 200 yards out just before dark. Biggest catch was 84”, black tip. After they landed it one guy didn’t pay attention and got whacked in the small of his back by shark’s tail, left a nice whelp.
I was trying ; )
That low pressure system (6th thru the 11th) kicked -up some decent sized waves. Showed me how out of shape I am.
You're going to need a bigger rod & reel.
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