Posted on 05/24/2021 7:04:41 AM PDT by Capt. Tom
If any tagged great white sharks make it into Cape Cod waters in time for the Memorial Day weekend, scientists will be ready as the complete array of acoustic receivers has now been deployed.
“It feels great to get these acoustic receivers out,” shark scientist Greg Skomal with Massachusetts Marine Fisheries said as he recently set the equipment into position with Megan Winton of the Atlantic White Shark Conservancy.
“Shark season!” he added with a grin in the recently posted Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s video.
The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy’s Sharktivity app will soon start to light up with shark alerts and detections, as the great whites return to the region this summer. Last year, 118 individual sharks were detected, for a total of 134,631 detections.
The Sharktivity app also has a section where people can report a shark sighting, and the app has an unconfirmed shark sighting from late last week.
In one posting, “6-7 foot White Shark jumped fully out of water,” someone reported in Cape Cod Bay between Sandwich and Dennis on Friday.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Massachusetts. is ready with the hydrophone buoys in place. For
They should be disabled and let nature takes it course with the liberal sunbathers.... /s
How are the stripers down at Chatham?
Are the bigger ones up or is it just schoolees?
Darn, I keep forgetting to neutralize my computer pad and when I touch it while using a mouse it posts the article prematurely.
In any event shortly we should be getting white shark “pings” on the buoys on Cape Cod and elsewhere.
The water temps are good for white sharks, but still a little to cold for most of us humans.
Let the white shark season begin. -Tom
Simple solution: stop protecting predators and open them up to commercial harvest.
Great Oppressor Sharks are coming back!
Minorities to become hate snacks to them!
I read that as:
How are the strippers down at Chatham?
Are the bigger ones up or is it just schoolees?
Bad nully, BAD!
It that what they do in the back room at The Chatham Squire?
we need some underwater drone clusters to chase the sharks off ...
The STRIPPERS hang out more on the NORTH side of Boston, along Rt 1.
If you go to Salisbury, MA there are both STRIPPERS and STRIPERS. The later are found in the Merrimack River in the are called Joppa Flats. The former are found on the land at night.
The beaches will remain open.
Amity, as you know, means “friendship”.
Call Quint. I want to hear him sing Spanish Ladies.
Grenades cuts shark hunting time in half.
I grew up on Old Harbor Road in Chatham. It is a little early for the big stripers. But your comment took me instantly back to a dozen summers in the Lyman slowly trolling for bass. One July morning I was out with my Grandfather at dawn and as the sun came up, the glassy waters of Pleasant Bay exploded with hundreds of stripers chasing bait fish. With just a plug, I most have caught 10 in as many minutes. Good times.
I am sure Capt Tom can attest, but that area is full of seals now. To the point that they are stealing your fish at times.
I tend to fish the Merrimack River mostly now. Low tide at Joppa Flats. There are not many seals up here.
Even up here in NH the entrance to Rye Harbor, Hampton Harbor and later the north side of the river in Kittery, ME as the summer goes on.
Jaws (1975) - You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I91DJZKRxs
A friend who fishes the Cape told me about the SEALS grabbing the surfcasters fish when they were retrieving them.
After he lost several fish to the SEALS he noticed an angler who was having much more luck in getting his fish onto the beach. That angler told him the SEALS watch the anglers, and when the Seals see a bent rod or an angler acting like he has hooked a fish the SEALS swim to that area and look for the meal.(usually stripers or bluefish)
So when you hook up, lower the rod tip so the rod in't bent, and look around like nothing is happening.
Bring the fish in on the reel and be ready to back up quickly to avoid losing your catch.
My friend tried that method and it worked. -Tom
Thanks for the tip.
I have never had much luck surf casting in the ocean and catching fish unless a school just happens to swim by.
I find that if you fish just upstream from the mouth of the river on the outgoing tide is usually your best success. My buddy was catching them this weekend on the Merrimack with light colored slug-gos.
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