[Search for users]
[Overall Top Noters]
[List of all Conferences]
[Download this site]
| Title: | Fishing-V2: All About Angling |
| Notice: | Time to go fishin'! day egins |
| Moderator: | WAHOO::LEVESQUE |
|
| Created: | Fri Jul 19 1991 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Jun 04 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 548 |
| Total number of notes: | 9621 |
205.0. "What do you do when Fish >> Boat" by USCTR1::SPERRY () Mon Jul 13 1992 18:10
The kids and I were making our first trip out to Stellwagon bank. They
are rapidly approaching their teens so I figure that if we are gonna
die, lost at sea, we should do so now, before their teen years. About
15 miles out, in what should be 250 feet of water we saw some large
fish break the surface. I cut the engine and we glided to a stop while
we got the poles ready. We were just about ready to drop our lines
when my son said, "Dad, watch out, we are going to hit bottom". The
fish finder was showing the bottom at 250 feet and large fish at 60. I
looked over to see what he was talking about and he was right, there
was the bottom 6 or 8 feet down. Then I saw a huge brown fish, must
have been 6 or 8 feet long move. All this happened within a couple
seconds. As I was trying to make sense of what I was seeing, it slowly
dawned on me that it wasn't the bottom at all, it was something alive.
It was also something bigger than my boat (17 foot Boston Whaler). I
figured it must be a whale, 25 to 30 feet, less than 6 feet below the
boat. It was moving leisurely, now at a right angle to the boat,
crossing directly amidships. I got worried that it was going to
surface under us. Then I noticed that the tail was "wagging" from side
to side, not up and down. Isn't that a shark not a whale? We were
just kind of stunned for a minute as we watched it fish strut by.
Anyone ever hooked anything like that in a small boat? It was an eerie
experience, seeing it so close and slow.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
|---|
| 205.1 | Basking Shark. | GEMVAX::JOHNHC | | Mon Jul 13 1992 18:36 | 11 |
| Basking Shark.
It eats plankton. They have been spotted in unusual numbers this year
all around MA waters. (There's at least one hanging out in the
Gloucester/Rockport area right now.) Chances are that they usually pass
through in the same numbers every year, only earlier in the season when
there are fewer anglers, boaters, and divers in the water.
FWIW.
John H-C
|
| 205.2 | Shark in Merrimack R. >>boat | CAPL::LANDRY_D | | Tue Jul 14 1992 10:42 | 30 |
| re: .205
>>......................... Isn't that a shark not a whale? We were
>>just kind of stunned for a minute as we watched it fish strut by.
>>Anyone ever hooked anything like that in a small boat? It was an eerie
>>experience, seeing it so close and slow.
What a great sea expierence with the kids. You'll have that memory forever.
We were in a small rented 12ft Aluminum boat with 35hp motor trolling
into the mouth of the Merrimack River years ago. I had my son and his
friend along. We had been cod fishing off the North jetty and I decided
to head in as the tide was slack and easy to navigate the mouth in such
a small boat. As it was calm I decided to hang out two trolling lines.
We were only about 50yds into the River when I saw a "tail" break the
surface on our Portside. I first thought "Striper" tail but as it
eased on closer to our boat it was the dorsal fin of a large Shark.
I estimated it's size at 13ft-14ft as it was along side our boat
2ft off our port side. I immediately told the kids to reel in the
lines so we wouldn't hook this baby. I noticed a long scar on it's
back. Not sure if it was from a prop as it was too straight. After
the lines were in I moved the boat as close to the North Jetty as
possible to avoid colision with this huge beast. It was on the surface
and we would have easly collided. The shark continued slowly up river?
I reported it to the marina (no radio with me) and they notifed the CG.
They said maybe the shark was sick and disoriented as it was uncommon
for sharks to enter the Merrimack? I wouldn't attempt to catch anything
that size in a small boat with kids aboard or alone for that matter.
Anyone know of sharks coming into Rivers?
-< Tuna Tail >-
|
| 205.3 | Not Uncommon ............. | SALEM::PAPPALARDO | | Tue Jul 14 1992 15:40 | 9 |
|
Some years (9+) my wife was on a 20' boat and they came along side a
Basking Shark in the river (Merrimack) about half way up to the
Toothpick (Salsbury Boat Launch). They radiod the CG and they asked if
they were sure it was a shark. It had been the second report within an
hour. The CG were dispatch and escorted the shark back out into the
ocean.
Guy
|
| 205.4 | Sharks in the Merrimack..... | CAPL::LANDRY_D | | Tue Jul 14 1992 16:57 | 6 |
| re: .3
Guy, Thanks for input on another Shark in Merrimack R.
I never did find out how far our shark went in.
-< Tuna Tail >-
|