Mako Shark Mazatlan 2002

[KeyWest]

Looks like you were successful - both with the shark and with uploading the pic!

Nice one.

You can also display the pic in your message by putting [img] right ahead of the link to the pic and [/img] right after the link

[Reel Creel]

nice fish.
some fokes say that we have those things here. Is that true? and what do you use to catch them? I dont want to catch a blue, i want somthing that is good to eat/smoke/can. And the jaws were you able to keep them.

[KeyWest]

I spoke with a commercial guy that used to catch them in the 70's, but that fishery was discontinued. They used nets.

[crabbait]

Silver Eagle - You did great right up to the actual posting. After you copy the new picture title, go to your post and hit the "Image" button on the bottom of the page close to the gremlins. Paste the new title in the box that opens and you will have the picture posted in your reply.

Still need to work on downsizing. Notice that the picture is too wide for the screen causing people to have to scroll back and forth to se the whole picture.

Keep working on it and you will get it.

[Silver Eagle]

This is a picture of a Mako I caught in Mazatlan last year, weighted about 100 lbs. Just checking my ablility to upload a picture.

[ 11-27-2003, 10:19 PM: Message edited by: crabbait ]

[rockn'reel]

I've hear that we have them here also along with white sharks (not sure what the numbers are like or if it is true). I know from my vast experience (many, many years of shark week on the discovery channel) they troll chunc bait or whole bait fast befind the boat. I remember one show had a mako behind them and wanted to see what kind of speed te animal had so they kicked in the throttle and got up to like 40 (don't quote me on the exact speed) and the shark fell back almost out of the view of the underwater camera and them did a couple flicks of the tail and boom! He was on the bait destroying it!

As for the white shark thing, the guy I talked to said his brother did it in a large boat and you have to travel into international waters where it was legal at that time (don't know if it still is), and troll big bait while chumming with blood or something. This White shark thing I cannot prove but I have heard that they are in the Pacific and I am not sure how credible this source really is. If any of you guys know anything about this (how far off my stoy is or not) please post and let me know. I would like other sources to verify or deny this and about the fishing part. I am sure most of you guys heard about the guy up in the sound that hooked into a white shark a couple of years ago. The only reason WDFW believed him on his word is because he used to work for them and had some background on sharks.

PS. Don't go getting any ideas about trying for these white sharks I think they are protected! Besides I think all of you will have your hands full with all the other species that we are all going to try for! Blue fin, Striped marlin, Swords, oh my! :grin:

[Marty]

White sharks are a protected species...it is illegal to even catch and release the beasts. I have seen a couple of makos jumping while tuna fishing, but have not heard of any hooked and landed. I am sure some of the 'times' that folks get spooled or bit off, is from sharks. Just my 2 cents worth.

Marty

[Miss B Haven]

Yes there are Whites off Oregon and they are protected (entire US I believe). One bites a Surfboard and/or Surfer here once in a while. Haven't heard of it in a while. Maybe they figured out Oregonians taste like old moldy tennis shoes! :grin:

600 lb Thresher was caught inside the CR at B10 several years back. I saw it at Sturgeon Pauls getting filleted. What a feeesh.

We had a thresher jump behind the boat Tuna fishing this year.

OH... and I saw something off the fly bridge swimming along under the water (no fin showing) opposite direction of the boat that was really big, big enough for a very large white. The head looked like it was a couple feet wide!

I'll stay ON the water not in it... thank you very much! :shocked:

Miss B,
We saw what had to be a great white come part way out of the water the week before the thresher jumped behind the boat. I can't remember who was in the boat that day.

[corrirod]

So what you're saying is that the survival suit I bought is really just a "great white's chew toy" suit? Hmmmmm.......in that case maybe I'll just go down with the ship? :tongue: :grin:

[Reel Creel]

What pound test wire does it take to get say a 10 or 12ft mako to the boat? and do you shoot them or just gaff and bleed them on the side of the boat? then does the meat need to go right on ice?
Perry.

[Popeye]

Yeah.....Surfers see 'em out here once in a while :shocked: :shocked: :shocked: :grin:

[Miss B Haven]

Hmmm... I think I know why that water looks so brown! :shocked: Gives new meaning to the term "wet suit" huh? :grin:

[bait boy]

Nice dolphin Bruce.... :tongue: :tongue: :grin:

[edsr]

While we were motoring out from Depot this year we nearly ran over a big brown something that looked like a shark. It was just under the surface, no fins showing. I think I was the only one who saw it. It was about 10'-12' long and luckily we didn't hit it, as in good-bye prop.

edsr

[Popeye]

Hey Rick.....Call it an oversized carp if ya want...What would YOUR heart be doin' bout then??? :grin:

[Miss B Haven]

I notice that guys got his hands on the board and his feet out of the water! Pretty sure he got a record on the sphinctor factor too. Not sure it matters, looks like that thing could swallow him whole, board and all (burp!)
I think I'd be learning to walk (OK- run) on water about then! [img]graemlins/eek13.gif[/img]

Any idea where that pic was taken Bruce? I wanna make sure I don't book a surfing or diving or swimming vacation there.
Surf Fishing might be kinda interesting though!

[Jimmy Carl Black]

Just found this



The website doesn't give any specifics but that these guys thought they were landing a mako. They let it go.