Season-End Bugging

[Fiskadoro]

Originally Posted by FISHIONADO

Got out for the first time this season, didn't find any keepers at La Jolla, just lots of shorts, crabs, eels, and a friendly shark or something that looked like a shark.

Great report!!!

That was a bluntnose six gill shark.

All I can say is wow!!! I would of loved to have seen that.

They are extremely rare and are usually found to the north and very deep like 3000 feet down. They are one of the most primitive sharks from a group that is mostly extinct and has not changed much for 200 million years. That's just a pup as I think they get up to over twenty feet in length.

This is such a rare sighting that you may want to contact Scripps. I've never heard of one doing what you described on the surface, and it was probably attracted to your lights because it feeds on deep water fish that are bioluminescent.

One more thing those sharks though slow are aggressive carnivores, if you had fallen overboard it would not surprised me at all if that shark would of taken your hand off.

Jim