Starting fishing around 2:00pm, and caught 4 whiting on first 5 casts. Decided to toss the shark rig out using a chunk of the whiting . We paddled it out about 125 yards out, and within 10 minutes it starting getting pulled. Ended up being a 6-7 foot shark, couldn’t really identify it because it snapped off before we could get a really good look at it.If I had to guess I would say it was a sandbar shark.
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Definitely a sandbar! Nice fish. Haven’t had many sandbars in the surf yet, So glad to see its time to start fishing again FINALLY
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Agreed about the sand bar, good work! as a side note water temp in the harbor was 67.5 yesterday, looking like that 68 degree thing is holding pretty true!
~Russ
~Russ
I’ve always heard 70 degrees but 68 sounds good also. The menhaden have been around for a couple of weeks now. Spotty but they are here
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Looks like a bull shark to me. 8 years of marine biology Im 99% certain
I can’t catch a dang thing on Folly. I reckon I’m going to have to drive over to SI…
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Originally posted by imfishbaitLooks like a bull shark to me. 8 years of marine biology Im 99% certain
That’s an awfully big dosal compared to the snout length for a bull. So I’ll go out on a limb and say 99.9% Sandbar. Of course we’ve been wrong before.
Nice catch! imnotfishy!
Looks like you had nice stout gear. Was swimming away strong.
Just because you are a marine biologist doesn’t mean you know everything about the marine world and I am saying this after just finishing my masters in marine biology. Bull sharks do not tolerate cooler temps but the Sandbars have a much lower threshold. We are also a pupping ground for them, my money is on Sandbar. With that being said it is pretty dang hard to positively ID the shark without it seeing it out of the water!
very nice!
It is 100% a sandbar - 0% a bull. Not every shark you see is a bull shark, and if you did 8 years of marine bio in SC, you would know they are pretty uncommon here. We tagged and released 100 sharks over 5’ last year, released probably more in under 5’ which we don’t take data on, and of all of those 1 was a bull shark. 1. all from the surf zone. If you read through this entire forum, as far as surf reports go, there is only 1 other bull shark as well of all the sharks caught since the forum data started. (2007 or 8?) “That ain’t no bull shark bro…”
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stan remember how to tell if its a bull shark, does it have black tips, no, its a bull shark! but i agree it is 100% sand bar we know because of the stupid big Dorsal fin and the pretty strait slope of the dorsal down the head. ill raise your 8 yrs marine bio with 20 yrs on the sand tagging and identifying real sharks not ones in pictures. I still get them wrong or get stumped from time to time but not this time.
~Russ
My trick to identifying a Sandbar. Not 100%, but pretty close. If the height of the first dorsal is half+ the length from origin to nose, it’s probably a Sandbar. Along with the other usual ID markers. I’ve caught a handful and they can’t hide that dorsal.
I am not a marine biologist, nor do I play one on TV