I was the first to hook up. The drag on my Ambassador screamed like a banshee as the powerful shark pulled with the strong current. For a fish that weighed no more than 15 pounds, the shark fought like a brute making deep, quick dives and seemingly refusing to tire.
Frank too had on a shark, but the battle wouldn't last long. After fighting the fish a few minutes, he fought a strong tug on his line and then nothing. When he reeled in to see what had happened, he found the head of an Atlantic sharpnose shark connected to his hook, but there was no body behind the gills.
A large shark had made a quick meal of the smallish one. It was probably the work of a large bull shark, which commonly prowl the area and are famous for preying on small coastal species like Atlantic sharpnose. Such is shark fishing. There's nothing more exciting than creating an encounter with the apex predators of the ocean. Sharks never fail to put up a strong fight and always deliver in the excitement department.
They're powerful, unpredictable and are extremely abundant in some areas during summer months, giving anglers an offbeat option for fun fishing action. Tackle-wise going light for sharks doesn't require a vast repertoire of expensive gear. I've been using two basic set-ups while seeking sharks.
The first is a 7 foot medium-action Shakespeare Ugly Stick rod with an Ambassador spooled with pound test. This rig is light enough to afford a good fight from a small shark, but can also handle a much bigger one if it takes hold. I release most sharks and have found the circle hook nearly percent effective in hooking sharks in the side of the mouth, where no long-lasting damage is done to the fish. For ultra-light action I use the medium action rod and reel spooled with six to 10 pound test line.
I use a light steel leader with the exact same setup for this except for using a Daichi Catfish Wide hook, which is a modified smaller wide-gapped circle hook. Bait-wise, any bloody cut fish will work.
Personally, I prefer mullet because it's easy to get and cuts easily. Probably the all-time best shark bait though is cut chunks of jack crevalle or bonito. Become the most informed Sportsman you know, with a membership to the Louisiana Sportsman Magazine and LouisianaSportsman.
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Shark dealers are required to attend Atlantic shark identification workshops to help them better identify shark species. There are more than 20 species of sharks that cannot be landed e.
The recreational shark identification and the prohibited shark identification placards can help with identification. The Shark Conservation Act requires that Atlantic sharpnose sharks be brought to shore with their fins naturally attached.
Compliance guides are available for all commercial and recreational regulations across Atlantic highly migratory species fisheries. There are no international management measures for Atlantic sharpnose sharks.
To commercially harvest Atlantic sharks, vessel owners must obtain a valid Atlantic shark directed or incidental limited access permit or a smoothhound shark open access permit. More information regarding limited access permits can be found in the Atlantic HMS commercial compliance guide. Atlantic sharpnose shark belong to the small coastal shark SCS complex. For SCS sharks, there is no retention limit per vessel per trip for commercial fishermen with a directed permit.
They are harvested primarily off the east coast of Florida and North Carolina. Their meat is sold as seafood and also used by fishermen as bait for other larger species of shark. Gear types, habitat impacts, and bycatch: Commercial fishermen primarily use gillnet and bottom longline gear, which have minimal impacts on habitat due to how and where they are deployed. These gear types sometimes interact with sea turtles, marine mammals, and the endangered smalltooth sawfish.
You can find shark in soups , grilled, barbecued, in tacos, as steaks, on kebabs and even as jerky. But, before shark becomes edible and enjoyable , there are a few essential things every angler should know. To be clear, I'm no advocate for the disgusting and wasteful practice of shark finning nor am I a fan of long line commercial fishing vessels taking massive amounts of sharks as bycatch. I am forever an advocate of hook and line angling and selective take.
I believe that this alone plus an awareness of how shark meat is wasted unnecessarily is an important part of conservation of apex predators. I am hoping that you see that sharks can be a catch themselves which in turn helps educate fish eaters that this particular order of fish should not so maligned. Okay, off my soapbox. This is because a shark fighting your line can exhaust easily which can cause it to weaken and begin to deteriorate.
The more exhausted a shark gets, the more lactic acid and carbon dioxide there is in the blood and muscles — all of which can affect the taste of the meat.
As a rule of thumb, the less trauma a shark or any fish goes through before and during slaughter, the higher quality the meat. Catching shark can be tricky, but in general, sharks prefer oily baits. Getting the right chum slick can be critical as well as the right shark rig. On the Water has an excellent beginner's guide here. As a shark deteriorates the urea in their blood immediately begins to break down into ammonia which then gets absorbed in the flesh and expelled through the skin of the animal.
In other words, sharks urinate through their skin. So it's clear -- get the fish onboard and gut it immediately.
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