Jaws 3, The fishing trip
I took the day off to get some rest and relaxation and also do a little fishing. After a violent storm last night, we awoke to a cool morning and I quickly got our boat ready to head out into the deep blue water. Everything was ready so I headed down to a nearby creek to catch some bait. Despite the heavy rain the night before, the creek was full of nice sized shrimp. I caught around 5 dozen and then we loaded up and headed down to the river.
We stopped at a favorite spot and settled in to catch some fish to eat. It was still cool and the water was calm but little did I know about the terror that lay just below the surface. I tossed my line out and sat back to catch some rays when suddenly my drag began singing and I knew I had hooked something large. My wife handled the fishing pole because I was half asleep and soon we had a shark up beside the boat. I released the shark but he wasn’t the only shark around because we caught one after another. Finally I had enough so we moved to another spot.
Several minutes later we were fishing again and soon we were bringing in actual fish (not sharks). We caught numerous drum, a flounder, some croaker, several red bass and a trout. We kept enough for a nice meal and released the rest. But soon the sharks found us again.
That’s when we saw him…. A man eating shark……
Sorry folks I couldn’t resist. And no I didn't actually bite him but it is a baby black tip shark. I let him go so that one day he could star in Jaws 3.
I wonder if sharks practice catch and release?
Have a great day,
Greg
Comments
So glad to know it was just an itty-bitty shark LOL
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Kat
I'm glad to hear you and wife got to spend some relaxing time together.
Lori
Ya know, every time I go deep sea fishing off of Charleston, someone on our boat always manages to land a decent sized shark. And of course, we always throw it back. Once, the shark even had one of those sucker fishes attached to it, too!
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Glad y'all had a good day with the fishing!
The baby shark is so cute.