Man catches 2 bull sharks in Potomac

WaPo ^ | 8/21/2013 | Julie Zauzmer

[RoosterRedux]

Catching a 300-pound killer shark is supposed to be a once-in-a-lifetime event.

But nearly three years after commercial fisherman John “Willy” Dean hauled in the first bull shark recorded in the Potomac in 37 years, he repeated the feat Tuesday — twice.

The first of the two bull sharks Dean caught Tuesday in the waters off of Point Lookout State Park at the tip of St. Mary’s County was already dead in the water. Sharks need a constant flow of moving water to breathe, Dean’s son Greg said. Constrained in a net that the Deans use to take in fish every day, the shark drowned before they pulled it aboard.

Still, the shark — more than eight feet long and one of the deadliest fish for humans — was imposing.

“It was a good adrenaline rush, I would say,” Greg Dean said of the first shark. “It was a little scary, but then at the same time, it was very exciting. We really just don’t think at that point. We just keep pulling it in and try to see what it was.”

A Maryland Department of Natural Resources biologist happened to be aboard for a routine check, SoMdNews.com reported, and the scientist immediately identified the massive creature as a bull shark, a species that can tolerate fresh water.

[Stand Watch Listen]

For years now, bull sharks have already been sighted in the Mississippi up as far as Cairo, Illinois (the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers).

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Time for a fishing trip! Can I use a Chicago thug for bait?

[Carriage Hill]

Just a baby compared to this one:

[Buckeye McFrog]

Sharknado in D.C.? Oh, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!

[goldi]

Maybe.

[Conan the Librarian]

Too Late!

Bull Sharks have been caught in St. Louis.

[jjsheridan5]

Point Lookout is not exactly fresh water. I go crabbing there sometimes. It’s the tidal Potomac emptying into the Chesapeake Bay.

It varies. I used to swim with my dog there (on the beach to the left as you go in). The only thing that ever attacked me was some kind of jellyfish. My dog must have scared off all of the bull sharks.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Also in the same waters.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Ain’t no bull, either!

Maryland “Freak State” PING!

[Stand Watch Listen]

Can I use a Chicago thug for bait?

Chum...oily, fermenting, slimy...Hmmmm just may work ;)
AND, will have an unlimited source of bait.

[Bigg Red]

Saw this on TV. Yipes!