Any of you species guys have a Great White on your list?

[Quillback]

This weeks edition of Let's Fish TV features shark fishing off the beach at Gulf Shores.  They use huge baits as in a tuna head or whole bluefish.  Of course, there's no way you can cast a bait that big and heavy, so the guide takes a kayak out and drops the bait off.  Then you wait.

That episode they only caught one relatively small blacktip, 4 feet long or so, but they showed some footage of a Great White they caught that looked to be 10 feet long and massive girth.  They also had a drone overhead filming the beast when it was hooked.  Eventually they beached it, unhooked it, turned it around and released it.  

It was pretty neat, there is, however, a lot of annoying Gulf Shores promotional stuff that you can fast forward through.

The video will be available on their website next week.

Andrew Upshaw (letsfishtv.com)

[BLUEWATER]

Blacktips are easy from the shore.  The problem is people.  Cape San Blas or St George sound in Florida are good places to fish and it is away from people.  The darn flies with orange on them hurt though. Big hook and chicken thighs should provide some fun.  A 3-foot blacktip on a medium weight bass rod is a blast.

[FishnDave]

They are not specifically on my wish list.  I would like to get A SHARK of some sort, eventually.  Not a big one.  A Bonnethead, Thresher, Leopard, or any small inshore/near-shore shark would be fun.  I could have tried for the Nurse Sharks @Ham and I saw down in the Keys last year... but they were big enough I was sure I wouldn't be able to land one from the spot we were fishing, so I passed on that opportunity.  I've since heard they don't fight much, so maybe I should have given it a go.

[jdmidwest]

I like the whites in a 2-3 lb range.  A Great White would probably be a Striper......

[Quillback]

14 hours ago, FishnDave said:

They are not specifically on my wish list.  I would like to get A SHARK of some sort, eventually.  Not a big one.  A Bonnethead, Thresher, Leopard, or any small inshore/near-shore shark would be fun.  I could have tried for the Nurse Sharks @Ham and I saw down in the Keys last year... but they were big enough I was sure I wouldn't be able to land one from the spot we were fishing, so I passed on that opportunity.  I've since heard they don't fight much, so maybe I should have given it a go.

The Great White didn't fight that hard, just kind of slowly swam around.  It's basically a lot of weight you gotta move.  It was pretty docile when they beached it, didn't move while they got the hook out and it let them turn it around so it could head out to sea.  

[Terrierman]

14 hours ago, FishnDave said:

They are not specifically on my wish list.  I would like to get A SHARK of some sort, eventually.  Not a big one.  A Bonnethead, Thresher, Leopard, or any small inshore/near-shore shark would be fun.  I could have tried for the Nurse Sharks @Ham and I saw down in the Keys last year... but they were big enough I was sure I wouldn't be able to land one from the spot we were fishing, so I passed on that opportunity.  I've since heard they don't fight much, so maybe I should have given it a go.

My fishing partner caught two nurse sharks while we were tarpon fishing in the Keys.  Boring.

[dblades]

Caught a lot of small sharks when I was stationed in Florida. However my brother in law, fished only for bait and sharks. Seen him split a 20-25 lb   Bonita into two baits for bull or hammerhead many times. 

[Johnsfolly]

I've caught Atlantic sharpnose, smooth and spiny dogfish. Do have plans on a shark trip offshore this summer and some local beach trips. Don't expect a great white. Hoping for sandbar or sand tigers. A mako or thresher would be awesome but not very likely.