Two bull sharks near Point Lookout

[Franklin]

we all watched shark week, bulls are bad ass,we have been seeing them for years even at the wicomico public peir when i was a kid all the way up till last year. im pritty sure i have seen a few will bowfishing for stingrays this year. i dont get in the water but at the same time, i wont be worried until there is a unexplained shortage of immigrants at the beaches.

 

[Markp]

I love seeing the expression on people's faces when fishermen reel in a shark on the beach at Ocean City, just hours after people have stopped swimming. The last time I was there a guy pulled in a small 4' Hammerhead. Judging by the reactions of the people walking up and down the beach, you would have thought he just caught Jaws.

Shark, Great White 467 lbs. Jack Holmes 6/11/1992 Ocean City
Shark, Mako 876 lbs. Jim Hughes 6/20/2009 Poormans Canyon
Shark, Tiger 1,210 lbs. Grace Czerniak 7/9/1983 Ocean City

These three in addition to the bull sharks are the critters I would worry about.

 

[Topher]

Now I am worried. All of this makes us prime candidates for Shark-Nado Part 2!

 

[K31]

Now I am worried. All of this makes us prime candidates for Shark-Nado Part 2!

Well, they could combine bad sci-fi concepts and have a hybrid shark/snakehead tornado apocalypse brought on by Algore-brand global warming.

 

[Huckleberry]

Well, they could combine bad sci-fi concepts and have a hybrid shark/snakehead tornado apocalypse brought on by Algore-brand global warming.

Got to have the ball biting Pacu Piranhas too

Sharknado meets The Perfect Storm

 

[Franklin]

Seems they were just chasing baitfish into the pound nets. There's tons of sharks in the bay, everybody just wants to pretend there aren't. What will impress me is the first guy out livelining for stripers that brings one of these in on a hook and line.

hows to say they havent been hooking them hook and line? most arent set up to handle a shark around here. non of the asian guys i see on the peirs have 12/0 reels and steel cable.

 

[SRD]

hows to say they havent been hooking them hook and line? most arent set up to handle a shark around here. non of the asian guys i see on the peirs have 12/0 reels and steel cable.

True,but some of the rods they use would sure handle it.I love the pier fisherman with 80-130 class gear fishing for catfish/perch.

 

[aquashooter]

As a kid, we used to watch hammerheads swimming around the fishing pier in Va Beach. As both a commercial and recreational diver. I have photographed sharks all over the East Coast and Caribbean Sea. Not once have I ever been scared. I admit that I've never observed a Great White in person. I complained to Peter Benchly when JAWS came out, he made it hard to attract new divers to classes.

 

[Gryphon]

Here's an old archive from 1985. Sandy Point Bull.

http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1985/T...ndy-Point/id-2c2b97cd86ce560f20665b8ae6ced3b0

Hahahaha! Read the article . . . "the three finally got a rope around the shark's head, he said. It took four shots from a .357-caliber Magnum handgun to kill it."

Now not to be a kill joy, but try carrying a .357 nowadays on a boat (a vehicle by statute) inland Maryalnd waters, without getting arrested. I can only imagine if this happened today the three guys would have been arrested for discharging a firearm on the open waters of the Bay, polluting by dispersing lead over a coastal water, and a DNR citation for catching a Bull Shark out of season!

 

[zoostation]

No need to worry about safety, the Montgomery County delegation is going to introduce a bill to make shark attacks illegal next session. And if that doesn't work, they're going to go a step further and make it twice as illegal the following year, with no possibility of PBJ's for sharks that attack. That will solve everything.

 

[Wojo]

Gonna need a bigger boat...

 

[BossmanPJ]

this is the exact reason people should stay on land and only swim in swimming pools.

 

[Huckleberry]

Catching a shark takes the right bait. Sometimes, the catch becomes the bait

Oh, there are Sand Tigers out in the Bay too

 

[Streetgang]

No need to worry about safety, the Montgomery County delegation is going to introduce a bill to make shark attacks illegal next session. And if that doesn't work, they're going to go a step further and make it twice as illegal the following year, with no possibility of PBJ's for sharks that attack. That will solve everything.

They should require every shark have a shark qualification license and ban assault sharks.

 

[Inigoes]

They should require every shark have a shark qualification license and ban assault sharks.

Why does a shark have so many teeth? When they need only 10!

 

[hvymax]

You don't need ten teeth to kill a guppy!!!!!

 

[Gryphon]

They should require every shark have a shark qualification license and ban assault sharks.

And don't forget, this is for the children, who can now (after the legislation passes) feel free to fill their bathing suits with sand as they make like shark bait in shallows! "Go'in to drag'em to the shallows and dround'em" - said Quint the half-eaten shark fisherman! BTW lets not start school in mid-August, but rather after the Labor Day weekend so all the families and the children can go to the beach an stimulate the economy, and make like shark
bait!

 

[Franklin]

Why does a shark have so many teeth? When they need only 10!

Why do you have a closet full of ammunition?

 

[Franklin]

Catching a shark takes the right bait. Sometimes, the catch becomes the bait

Oh, there are Sand Tigers out in the Bay too

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on the bottom of my worry list! I would be more worried about a bull dolphin before them.

 

[JohnnyBmore]