Posted on 12/28/2015 7:02:56 PM PST by Lera
Captain Chard Starling has seen lots of things while on the water, but before the other day he’d only seen a great white shark once.
Starling was excited to double that total over the weekend, calling it “incredible.â€
“Quite an eventful day. We caught more red snapper than we could count, had a Mola Mola follow right behind the engines for 10-15 minutes, and oh yeah, the great white deal. Incredible day,†he wrote on Facebook.
“It stands true; you never know what you will see when you’re on the sea!â€
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“We’re going to need a bigger boat.”
Nature’s perfect predatory eating machine....
Sometimes that shark, he looks right into you. Right into your eyes. You know the thing about a shark, he’s got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eye.
Mola Mola, one weird fish.
seen that .... spooky as hell
Always hated when sharks came around me when I was Scuba Diving.
[[“We’re going to need a bigger boat.â€]]
That is exactly how I felt the first and only time I saw one while fishing. I have sea legs , have fished in good and bad weather , crazy seas. Never felt out of place till that thing came up to our 25’ boat . It actually tapped the side of the boat . I suddenly felt really small and kinda queasy.
It’s not common to see them in Florida.
Maybe they went back home and told the other sharks
THEY always hated when Hooman Beings came around them
when they were diving! (I think they mentioned
Mtn. Climber specifically!)
Never scuba dove, but did snorkel. The nurse shark I didn’t mind so much.
But the barracuda scared the heck out of me. The guide said, “if a barracuda comes up to you, just roll over to your back and kick your fins at it and it’ll swim away.”
Well, it didn’t. That thing stalked me. Another freeper mentioned feeling small when a big shark bumped his boat.
Let me tell you about feeling slow in the water watching a barracuda seem to teleport from one spot to another. I honestly could barely see it.
You realize very fast the damage one could do let alone a school.
I was snorkeling in the Bahamas and dove into a small cave looking for lobsters. A nurse shark was sleeping in the back of the cave and spun be every which way as it blew past me.
Yikes. I stick to pools, now. When I go into the ocean, I know now that I am considered to be in the home of those who consider me dinner.
Did a sports fishing trip to Aruba back in 89. The wind was so bad, we had to fish on the non wind side of an oil tanker. Caught a couple of small tuna and was getting pretty sick when the captain said enough and started back to shore.
Not a 1/4 mile from shore captain said he wanted to see if there was any dolphin in the water. Poles went in and within seconds I had a dolphin on. Brought that one in and not a minute later another was on. For thenext hour I was bringing in dolphin like mad.
Another dolphin was on and I am reeling it in. I see the dolphin come up to the side of the boat. All of a sudden the water around the dolphin goes red and the line goes slack. I bring in the fish and it was only the head. Mate said a wahoo bit it in half.
Next two days I stayed in the pool.
So sweet. He looks like he’s smiling. ;)
Those dolphin (mahi-mahi) run in schools. If you keep one in the water on hook, the school will stay with it and keep feeding. I have been in that situation too.
Fished off the rigs in Gulf of Mexico then ddove in for a swim. 240 feet of water so the black tips looked really small because they were deep. So did the hammer head until they all started to surface. 25 feet is a long way to swim calmly back to the boat when you realize how fast these animals swim. :)
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