We took to the surf today searching for sharks on the other side of deveaux island, with waves at a windy, nasty, 6ft-ish surf.
Chummed it up for 15 minutes or so, then the action started.
Caught a lemon shark around 3ft, who came in all tail wrapped, but was released in good shape.
Couldnt keep the black tips off our lines.
Someone forgot to watch their line, and so the bait managed to wrap it all up in the foot or the motor.
As I was half in the water, with the boat bouncing rapidly in the waves, I noticed movement in the water. I got back in and stood up, and witnessed the largest shark I have ever seen inshore.
I figure it would have to have been 8 to 10 ft, and looked black as a shadow in the water.
I could see the large top fin, the smaller dorsal fin, and the top of the tail.
My brother cast a line to it, with 3ft of 60lb silver cable leader, and he took it instantly. That rig held for approximatly 6 seconds before he chewed through. We recieved about 5 inches of chewed up leader back.
BIG Lemon Sharks on the shallow side of Deveaux’s Bank. BIG Bull and Hammerhead on the deep side. Never seen a big Hammerhead in the hot summer, only the spring time. The biggest hammerhead I’ve hooked there was 400lbs+, over ten feet! The Lemon in the picture was caught in six feet of water off of Botney.
Yesterday my girlfriend, her brother, and I went down to Botney for the afternoon. I noticed that we were going to be there for the incoming and peek of hi and it was windy out! So I took my shark stuff with a couple fresh hambone foot long mullet with me. Without a rod holder I wedged my rod up into the trees and hung out in the hammock. Nothing for quite awhile and then BOOM! I ran down to my rod but by then the 100lb braid was screaming out and angled around one of the large tress in the surf. I ran as far right and around as many more trees as I could trying get an angle off the problem tree without getting pulled out into deeper water myself. Once the line freed the tree I was able to turn the fish. He gave off some violent head shakes and then my swivle popped. It was an epic short lived fight. I have been pulled into the surf only a hand full of times by very large shark. This was def one of those beasts that will have me itching to go do that again sometime soon, until then lets get some tarpon on the fly!
When I got my rig back in it had the usual large shark damage, except there was another shark rig mangled and tangled in with mine. About 4 feet of heavy steel leader with blue plastic balls (no hook) and a #4 or 5 pyramid weight on a slider, it was fresh and had green braid tied onto it. This was not this shark’s first rodeo. Does this sound like the rig u had just lost only a couple miles down beach on Edisto?
