Oregon/Washington Shark Poll

tunahelper · 08-08-2006, 04:27 PM

What's the largest you have caught and species?

Mine-

5'5" Blue. Gutt'ed it (someone wanted to bring it home) and it kicked for 2 hours afterward.

Jeff-

Stowaway · 08-08-2006, 05:00 PM

5'9" Leopard Shark fishing the Berkley flats for Stripers. 17lbs test. Took 2hrs 18minutes to land. By far the largest Leopard I've seen in person! I really miss fishing that area.

Have yet to hook a shark in Oregon/Washington. But I'm sure my time will come.

Snakebite · 08-08-2006, 05:35 PM

7 foot Blue on a hand line while chumming on anchor on a federal trawl survey. Hey, you gotta do something when you're stuck on a boat for three weeks! We had hundreds circling the boat, and I tossed the bait at the biggest one, and it eventually took it. :tongue:

ron m · 08-08-2006, 08:18 PM

Bull shark, don't remember length, 220 + lbs, on a Penn 6/0, more than 30 years ago in Fla. Fishing from a 14 ft. boat, pulled it to shore and went over side with a rope while my brother in law held it next to the boat, pulled it to the beach and put a dive knife in it's skull. they do take a long time to quit kicking and snapping their jaws!

Herring Problem · 08-10-2006, 01:42 PM

"Good ol boy" way to Shark Fish In North Carolina.
16 ft hammerhead, Top Sail Beach North Carolina, 1969.

Using a a fighting chair installed on a small trailer pulled behind a 4 x 4.
Back the trailer down to the surf line, sit down in seat and strap in, 13 foot heavy rod with large two speed reel, lined with 100 lb dacron line with 20 feet of 200 lb steel leader with large single point hook. Tie a medium size chicken to hook, place a large balloon 5 feet in front of bird, toss into the surf, helper wades out past the last wave and let wind and current take balloon and chicken out 200+ yards. Pull line tight releasing the ballon, chicken flopping around and very soon you will see some action.

Cheap live bait, chicken cost 3 cents at that time.

Nick6547 · 08-10-2006, 01:55 PM

200 plus blue, about 10'. But it was out of Eureka, so not quite in Oregon.

Used a 5 pound blackcod for bait!

KillerBeee · 08-10-2006, 02:02 PM

5' Mako when I was a teen down in So. Cal. We were cruising to Catalina Island on my dad's sailboat dragging a rapala and the thing hit. Took us 25 mins. to get color. My buddy tells my dad "hit it with the gaff when I tell you". Buddy says "hit it" and my dad smacked up side the head.

Mr mako got pretty [whoopsydaisies!] and sounded. It took us another 45 mins. to bring it to gaff again. The sequence was classic.
Beeeeeee
Oh yeah, I hooked a 7 ft blue last year on a #4 live bait hook and played with it for a while before the tuna bite died and I broke it off.

BigWaterBigFish · 08-10-2006, 02:38 PM

5' Blue while trolling for Chinook off Newport, out 5 to 6 miles, would have bitten through the leader but he had rolled and caught the 40# line in the gills and fins, he paralelled the boat even after we cut the line, rolling his eye at us like he was saying "how do I get hold of those big bait in that boat" ...
Most impressive color of blue

Tinman · 08-10-2006, 02:55 PM

7 1/2 foot hammerhead off Laguna Beach during an El Nino year, caught from a 14 foot aluminum skiff

tunahelper · 08-10-2006, 03:11 PM

16' Hammerhead!

In a 4x4?

jet · 08-10-2006, 03:43 PM

7' blue a few weeks ago out of tillamook.

Jet~~~

Miss B Haven · 08-10-2006, 07:42 PM

[quote toss into the surf, helper wades out past the last wave and let wind and current take balloon and chicken out 200+ yards. Pull line tight releasing the ballon, chicken flopping around and very soon you will see some action.

Cheap live bait, chicken cost 3 cents at that time.

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Okay...ya...I got it... BUT... how much do those helpers cost you? Either in $$$$$$ or BEEEEERS? :grin:

Grady252 · 08-10-2006, 09:18 PM

5' blue, about 7 years ago, tillamook bait co took pics and posted on the web.

7' about 2 years ago, banan banks........

D-tangle · 08-10-2006, 09:33 PM

4 sharks in 1975. 5,5,6 and almost 7'. One got away after sounding under boat and refusing to come up closer than 6' down. We could see the swivel connected to the six foot wire leader. Up and down until it broke about 30-35 minutes later. Off the mouth of the Columbia. We caught and released all, but Dad bought a 45 ACP just in case something unexpected happened. We hooked all on herring being trolled. Switched to wire leader the next day after the sharks kept biting through the mono. Figured we might as well play the darned sharks if they were going to eat the salmon bait. Oh man, did we play! Memories.

Theron · 08-11-2006, 07:28 AM

Took a 6ft blue 40 miles out of the C.R. with bow and arrow
gutted and cooled it quick meat tasted ok but was pritty mushy

Theron

tunahelper · 08-11-2006, 07:52 AM

The blue we got a couple weeks ago was kept. After hearing that they pee through their skin, decided not to eat any, but one who did said the same thing that it tasted ok, but was mushy. -plus after darn near each cut you had to re-sharpen the knife. Too much to deal with to try to eat. Now what was it about the fins...? :blush:

Threemuch · 08-11-2006, 08:39 AM

Shark week sure got folks sharky. I was with CD when Karl fishing the pile when Karl hooked and released this guy:

A 7' salmon shark, 270 pounds by a porbeagle length weight conversion chart. Should be pretty close.

One of my crew on the threemuch hooked another one about a year earlier, but this was well over 10 feet. It came up and took a good look at us before breaking off. The kid was yelling, get the gaff, get the gaff. Yeah right.

Both fish on herring, one mooched, the other trolled.

retaliate · 08-11-2006, 08:58 AM

So that's what a Salmon shark looks like, All we saw was a big brown body flash by when it stole a Chinookk from Ken(Crazyfish)
I've caught & released a few Blue Sharks aprox 4' to 6', & broke off some others...just to save time.

wak'm&stak'm · 08-11-2006, 12:24 PM

18ft great white, caught while herring jig'n this morning.