Off of Wrightsville Beach NC
It ain’t the ones you see.
Get the gaff…maybe two!
06 200 Bay Scout 150 Yam
I’m pretty sure that is a bronze whaler shark…
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Originally posted by Post QuartermasterI’m pretty sure that is a bronze whaler shark…
Got to disagree with you on that. 100% sure that is a white
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NMFS = No More Fishing Season
“Back home we got a taxidermy man. He gonna have a heart attack when he see what I brung him”
Are you sure Paul? Those astute fishermen identified that shark with a white belly, light gray top, and huge pectoral fin as a Bull. LOL!!!
I mean, I know that in the excitement it might be hard to identify that fish, but for Pete’s sake, how could you not see that’s a White.
Yeah, that white would make two bull sharks…as for bronze whalers we don’t get those on the east coast.
All I know, is that would have made my day, and my bait would have accidentaly made it’s way towards his mouth…
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That is undoubtable a white. I would give anything to free dive with one off our coast! As for bronze whalers we have schools of hundreds of them off our coast. They like our water temps offshore year round but large migrations are present in April-May and Sept-Nov. There northern most range is 40’ N in the western atlantic.
Tight lines,
Michael Mattson
843-224-3542
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www.lowcountrysportfishing.com
Last year we encountered a very similar shark. It circled the boat for about 5 minutes, came close for a photo op, and then swam away after spitting out a piece of not yet thawed out Bonita.
It was a great white.
Jason
Cap’n I’m referring to the bronze whaler Carcharhinus brachyurus which is not present in the western Atlantic. Maybe you are referring to some other species.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_shark#Distribution_and_habitat
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I have swam with hundreds of them well with in my personal space and have seen them in feeding frenzy in the hundred!
http://www.sharks.org/species/154-bronze-whaler-shark-carcharhinus-brachyurus.html
http://marinebio.org/species.asp?id=493
http://www.aquaticcommunity.com/sharkfish/bronzewhalershark.php
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/species/duskyshark_detailed.pdf
Tight lines,
Michael Mattson
843-224-3542
captmattson@aol.com
www.lowcountrysportfishing.com
You give not a single citation showing the presence of brachyurus off our east coast and even give one cite of the dusky shark, C. obscurus, an entirely different species. We don’t get bronze whalers here. You must be swimming with duskies or silkies. From The Sharks of North American Waters by Dr. Jose Castro:“absent from the western north Atlantic”. I spoke to Dr. Castro yesterday and he confirmed that we simply do not get that species here. If you can produce one I would congratulate you in making scientific history and will be the first to admit my mistake as well as the mistake of all scientific literature concerning their distribution.
If you are still talking about a great white. I can produce one caught off of charleston. I have the mount with the original jaws of one. It was about 1200 lbs. As for white sharks. We have a good many off our waters from Jan. through March.
Robert Olsen
Hey, Robert. I saw you going out in the Folly river yesterday. I know we definitely get GWs; I tagged and released one in 1995 off Folly. I assume you have the jaws from that one you’re brother got a few years back? I know that he used to see them regularly every year as well.