It seems whenever I throw a menhaden or shad tail into the water on a j-hook, I always end up with a 14" to 16" little grey shark.
Can you help me ID these sharks? I downloaded a few pdfs on shark identification & none of them have this shark in it. My fish ID book doesn’t show it. They all show big sharks.
SC has a # of sharks that are illegal to possess.
Atlantic Angel, Basking, Bignose, Dusky, Galapagos,
Longfin Mako, Narrowtooth, Night, Caribbean Reef,
Sandbar, Sevengill, Caribbean Sharpnose, Silky, Big-
eye Sixgill, Sixgill, Smalltail, Bigeye Thresher, Bigeye
Sand Tiger, Sand Tiger, Whale and White Sharks
Is this common one likely to be on that list? If it’s on the legal list, I doubt it’s too small, cause I think these little sharks are adults, or I wouldn’t have caught so many of them.
I have been told that those little sharks are baby spinner sharks, because that is the only shark species to reproduce inshore around here. If that is the case, then you’re gonna have to wait until one is 54" to keep it
neonate sharpnose, less than a few weeks old. they’ll lose the black tips on their fins and the umbilical scar on their chest and grow into slightly larger pains in the ***.
no size limit, 1 per day.
Barbawang, I’m sure I’ve caught scadzillions of those juvenile sharpnose, but didn’t realize that’s what they were. Do they have the telltale light blotches at that size? I honestly don’t remember. I’d just like to get a positive ID on them, because the next one my 5 year old son catches is going on his dinner plate.
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baby sharpnose
baby blacktip
the baby sharpnose will be pretty skinny and may have some white spots on it. the baby blacktip will be stockier than the baby sharpnose and will actually put up a fair fight on a light rod when you expect a whiting. if youre inshore and catch something that looks like a baby hammerhead, its very much probably a bonnethead.