SHARKS!!! (Load Warning)

[Camshaft Ramrod]

SHARKS

Discussion topics:

-Ever come into contact with one wild or captive?
-Dangerous? Not Dangerous?
-How do they taste........
-Have any interesting shark stories and/or pictures?


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[Lupin]

Moved to marine section.

[Camshaft Ramrod]

Thanks Lupin. :thumbsup:

[wfex4]

I dont remember what kind I had but it tasted similar to tuna with a thicker texture.

[moto110]

I've caught numerous sharks. The ones I've caught the most of are mako sharks. They taste super good. hahaha. I'v also caught thresher sharks. I have only swam with soup fin shark. They were souper timid seeing as how they were about ten feet long and I was barely five foot at the time. I LOVE SHARKS.

[Camshaft Ramrod]

I've caught numerous sharks. The ones I've caught the most of are mako sharks. They taste super good. hahaha. I'v also caught thresher sharks. I have only swam with soup fin shark. They were souper timid seeing as how they were about ten feet long and I was barely five foot at the time. I LOVE SHARKS.

You have any pics of your catches?

[oscarcrazy]

Salmon sharks, a pic from my old lodge. For scale the big ugly guy on far left is 6'5"
http://www.eaglecharters.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=90&g2_serialNumber=2

[Moontanman]

What is that oval shaped thing on light brown sand? Egg case? What species of shark?

[woofy]

ive had small ones swim by me...scariest moment ever!!!!! i have no idea what they were just that they were about 2ft only and there were 2 of them. other than that no i have yet to fish one, or eat one.

[Ohio Entusiast]

As an avid surfer in the 'Shark-bite capital of the world' for the last 15 years [New Smyrna Beach, Fl.] I have to say they're nowhere near the monster their name is famous for.

I've been bit 8 times but none were serious. They see little white hands or feet and think they're bait fish and attempt to feed themselves. Once they realize it's not a fish they let go.

'Course now I reside in Ohio so....

[blacktip]

No encounters in the wild, but in high school I used to hand feed a 3.5' lemon shark at an LFS I worked at. The tank was touted as being 4000 gallons and was roughly 14'x8'x5' and housed a bunch of reef fish including a 3 or 4 foot zebra moray eel. This particular eel would only eat live craw dads which we would feed to it using a 3' grip. Obviously a 3' grip will not reach the bottom of a 5' tank so we had to stick our arm down into the water to get the food to the eel.

Normally when we do this, we have one person watching for the shark and the other focused on feeding the eel. One day I was the one feeding and my buddy was supposed to be watching. Unfortunately he got distracted by a customer when all of a sudden I felt somthing bump into my arm. Needless to say I dropped the grip and practically leapt off the ladder I was on. Fortunately the shark had just been fed or maybe the lemon shark would have had some blacktip for dinner.

All kidding aside, taking care of that shark was one of the best things I've ever been a part of. He was a beautiful creature and it broke my heart the day they gave him away.

[Zoodiver]

SHARKS

Discussion topics:

-Ever come into contact with one wild or captive?
-Dangerous? Not Dangerous?
-How do they taste........
-Have any interesting shark stories and/or pictures?



If you do some reading in this section, you'll see many MFKers keep sharks and have a wide range of experience with them. There are serveral threads going with details of people's interactions with them.

[Camshaft Ramrod]

If you do some reading in this section, you'll see many MFKers keep sharks and have a wide range of experience with them. There are serveral threads going with details of people's interactions with them.


Thanks Zdiver. I mostly just wanted to show all of the pics of sharks I found. The discussion topics were more of an appetizer to keep the thread interesting.

[ceeej31]

i once got to touch some bamboo sharks at an aquarium, and i once tried to touch a baby scalloped hammerhead

[moto110]

No sorry no pics.

[Camshaft Ramrod]

No sorry no pics.
no biggy..

[Jessica Dring]

Never came into contact with a shark unfortantely.
I went snorkelling in Egypt last week, hoping to see some. But all I saw was octopus, sea snake, lionfish blue spotted ray etc..will have to post pics when they are developed.
Shame really..I love sharks.

[Footballref50]

I live in San Jose, CA and our Sharks are pretty dominate i most say.....

[Footballref50]

GOOOOOOOOO SHARKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!