First WHITEY...

[Pat]

...SHARK of the year! :shock:

Conditions were stellar this morning, but nothing came of it.

Paddling in at 9am in the reserve (375 ft of water) I noticed a ripple moving along about 100 feet away to my left. No fin protruding but the ripple was clearly moving along.

It suddenly turned and started coming at me, at about 60 feet the ripple sank out. About 2 seconds later an ~12 ft grey topped, white sided, pointed head, large gills and dorsal swam right by the back of my kayak at about 10 mph about 5 feet under the surface. I got a great look at it perfectly down glare, and the water is ~15 vis.

Got the juices flowing for sure.

Second trip in a row that I haven't seen a seal or sea lion all morning.

BTW: It's not April 1st. :)

[Holy Mackerel]

BS without pics! :)

Just kidding, damn that would be scary as hell, makes me shaky just reading about it, glad it didn't bite into your kayak, must have been an amazing site to see!

[tylerdurden]

Who wants to swim from the cove to the buoy and back now? With all the little to mid size makos around and this big brother, feet up.

[Grego]

Amazing, damn lucky you had that kelp/tree camouflage yak so it couldn't see you.

[aguachico]

Pat;

that white just knew your too much of a bad ass to mess with.

I watched a shark tourney on cable. Guys fishing Mako in Socal chummed up a 15ft GWS. This shark was so big it scared off a big mako then it started bouncing off the sporty.

AC

[FISHIONADO]

Is your yak gray on the bottom? Maybe it thought you were a potential mate? :twisted:

[Arne]

Second trip in a row that I haven't seen a seal or sea lion all morning.
I'd much rather see the greysuit than one of them damned sealions.
Arne

[madscientist]

With all the little seal mcnuggets that have been around I guess it was only a matter of time till mr. smiley showed up. Might want to give the newspaper a call. Maybe if we get some press out about how the seals are attracting the sharks they will finally kick the little bastards out of the children's pool.

Shame you were in the reserve. How cool would it be to see that thing boil on an iron? 8)

Thanks for making my morning paddles out in the dark a little bit more exciting. :shock:

[Corey]

AWESOME!!!!!!! Wow Pat, that must've been a thrill. I can't imagine how exciting that must've been. I don't think I'd want to see one any bigger than that, though!

[madscientist]

Anybody wanna make a seal shaped cutout from a boogie board and go trolling?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5Ob8UUmN_Y

[Holy Mackerel]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5Ob8UUmN_Y

What an awesome beast... :shock: 8)

[Corey]

Anybody wanna make a seal shaped cutout from a boogie board and go trolling?

I'm game. From a real boat, that is.

Adi?

[lamb]

I'm here.

That's scarry chit if you ask me. :shock: Me no like sharkz.

I just told Jasmin to charges batteries on our skiff for a possible trip tomorrow in the AMs...

Ya' know, it's important to air ventilate you kayak every once in a while. :alien:

[gary sullivan]

I guess we won't see Adi out in his kayak for awhile. :lol:

[madscientist]

I just told Jasmin to charges batteries on our skiff for a possible trip tomorrow in the AMs...


Need some chum?

[dmr]

I saw you paddling on your way in. I must have been in the shark free zone. I had a teenage sealion follow my iron up to the rod tip and proceed to harass me for a few minutes. At least he left my deep bait alone.

I saw a few people swimming the short route near your shark sighting spot around 10:00. That would something to see through your googles.

Beautiful day, but no fish.

[Iceman]

3 foot surf scares me more than 12 foot sharks :lol: :lol: :lol: I am charging up the head cam for tomorrow!

[Zed]

T-Man,
As your friend I strongly suggest you don't try it, Clay or no Clay!

Zed

[Tman]

Yah, don't think I would cast to that...it could have been my dog, after fattening up on some holiday sea lion meals...

Ya know, I always wanted to hand feed a Mako....scratching that off my list of things to do one day...

[Hook 1]

Dam Pat, that will make you go turtle.
T-Man.........pu$$y.

[FISHIONADO]

It looks like the OEX Pros knew what they were doing with the camo kayaks, (I never said they didn't). This company sells anti-shark decals for the bottom of your surfboard.

http://www.sharkcamo.com.au/

http://starbulletin.com/2002/08/26/features/artaa.jpg

[madscientist]

Sharks don't like zebras?

[Corey]

They are also extremely fearful of the gnu, or if you prefer, wildebeest.

[aguachico]

3 foot surf scares me more than 12 foot sharks I am charging up the head cam for tomorrow!

Andy;

I heard big surf is coming in tonight. Let me know what you see. I'm going this weekend.

[Iceman]

Andy;

I heard big surf is coming in tonight. Let me know what you see. I'm going this weekend.

Art, surf was actually supposed to build late TODAY, then drop again You will probably have the 1-2 foot surf Saturday that was there today.

Thanks to Pat there was PLENTY of elbow room. Thanks for the pic Arne :D



http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d151/Iceman619/Andybendo1copy.jpg

[Dennis]

:salut: Andy... There had better be a White on the hook.

[Iceman]

Y'all know me. Know how I earn a livin'. I'll catch this bird for you, but it ain't gonna be easy. Bad fish. Not like going down to the pond and chasing bluegills and tommycocks. This shark, swallow you whole. No shakin', no tenderizin', down you go. And we gotta do it quick, that'll bring back your tourists, put all your businesses on a payin' basis. But it's not gonna be pleasant. I value my neck a lot more than three thousand bucks, chief. I'll find him for three, but I'll catch him, and kill him, for ten. But you've gotta make up your minds. If you want to stay alive, then ante up. If you want to play it cheap, be on welfare the whole winter. I don't want no volunteers, I don't want no mates, there's too many captains on this island. Ten thousand dollars for me by myself. For that you get the head, the tail, the whole damn thing.

[madscientist]

It may be a marlin or a stingray...but it's definitely a game fish...


You're gonna need a bigger boat. 8)

[Ryan The Sealion]

the hands unite to form a single unit by the simple overlap of the little finger..then lowly and slowly the clubhead led back pulled into position not by the hands, but by the body..which turns away from the target shifting weight to the right side without shifting balance..tempo is everything perfection unattainable as the body coils now theres a slight hesitation...a little nod to the gods...and now the weight begins shifting back to the left pulled by the powers inside the earth, its alive this swing a living sculpture..then down through contact always down...

oh wait wrong movie... :lol:

[dmr]

Arne, great photo.

[fubar]

Brought wife and 3yr old son down to the childrens cove to look at the seals that shouldnt be there. I knew he would enjoy it. Got there around 10am and started telling my wife how a yakker spotted a white shark recently and that these plump little turds are great shark bait. A few minutes later a seal comes flying out of the water and up the beach in a big hurry. As it flopped up the beach in pain it was evident why it had done so. There was an oval shaped bite mark about the size of a hula hoop around the seals mid section. The top portion of the bite was very deep and a good chunk was missing. The seal was bleeding pretty bad. A seagul immediately noticed the injury and began plucking away at the shredded wound tearing off chunk by chunk. The seal could not do too much about being plucked to death. Each time the seagul tore off a piece of flesh the seal would wince in pain and the bleeding would increase.

The seal got it in the mid section and it looks like the shark attacked it from underneath, shark week style.

Any how just wanted to share since I have only seen seal corpses on the beach and never a fresh soon to be dead victim. There was a crowd forming so we took off before finding out whether or not Sea World came by to put this seal out of its misery.

I did notice a few scuba divers surfacing just outside the childrens cove and many swimmers outside LJ cove as usual. Gotta think its just a matter of time before someone gets it.

[Iceman]

Seems like the GW is just at the size that it is switching from fish to furry and is not a very good hunter yet. I am not at all worried about the shark, paddling above the water, but I agree that the swimmers may become a victim of mistaken identity.

[tylerdurden]

And Sea World probably tried to save the thing too :roll: . They should let nature take its course. Seagulls gotta eat too. I haven't seen this one on the news yet. Last I heard about sharks in the news was the dead seal in OB.