Edisto beach this morning.

Saltwater Surf / Pier Fishing
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Did some surf fishing this morning at the state park. The wife caught a small stingray which I cut up for shark bait. Sent a piece of it out as far I as could cast it with my 12’ spinning rod loaded with 25 lb test mono. It didn’t take but a few minutes before the rod doubled over. The wife got the rod while I strapped on a fighting belt for her. It took her about 10 minutes to land it. I’m kind of new to surf fishing for sharks ( trying to catch them on purpose that is )and have no idea what kind it was. It was 48" FL. We also saw a couple Spinners leap clear of the water too. Only caught 1 Whitting which we we’re intending to use for bait for the sharks, pretty slow day.

Any idea what kind it is?

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If the dorsal starts over the pectoral, Sandbar. If the dorsal starts behind the pectoral, Dusky. With the absense of black on the dorsal, and rig on the back not a Spinner. Looks more like and Sandbar. Either way hope it swam away strong. Nice catch!

“If it were catching, Everyone would be good at it.”

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Yeah, been told by a couple people that it is a Sandbar. After looking on line at different types of Sharks it was easy to figure out what it was. I only keep them out of the water long enough to take a couple of pictures, and this guy had plenty of fight left in him as I was releasing him. :smiley: