Anglers got their license to serve! After all these years the pier will have beers! Shark Week is still being approved but the word is that it's going to happen sometime in June!
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Anglers got their license to serve! After all these years the pier will have beers! Shark Week is still being approved but the word is that it's going to happen sometime in June!
Wow!
I do cringe to think what a pier brewskie might co$t ;-)
I vote to turn the bait tank into a beer tub.
Going to have to wait to plan my June trip til they announce the shark week dates.
Shark week??? This is news to me whats going on with it, and as for the beers are they going to actually allow beer on the pier or just at anglers?
I like my beer as well as the next guy, but I've never been a fan of mixing beer.and fishing. Makes some really good guys turn into a$$holes
That was my concern too Coach, that and the possible chaos of an intoxicated fisherman trying to cast a gotcha on a crowded octi
Beer doesn't turn any body into assholes imo,they were 1 to begin with and beer just lets the beast out,I love to have fun and if I drink to much you will find me piled up asleep with a smile on my mug :) ,
Sorry coach, my post was a joke about beer in the bait tank, and yes beer and PIER fishing don't mix. All you have to do is go to the piers that allow it to understand it's bad news. The pier has been trying for years to get permitted to sell beer at the restaurant, but will not allowed past the gate.
And if you enjoy the night crew's "leftovers" now, anticipate the future.
However to each their own pleasures.
That's what Rowdy said! Next weekend guys! First round is on Gainer!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pier#r
Sooooo a week when we can attempt to land sharks????? Hmmmmm may need to get a shark set up lol
I can already see this convo "but honey it's shark week at the pieerrrrrrr. Alllll the guys are goinggggg" then I'll stamp my foot and pout in my office. Blade show is in june, gonna have to make a decision.
If they have a shark week, I will be cleaning up the old Penn levelwind & making some stout leaders!
Ive already set my trip down to fall on the tourney, maybe i will get lucky and that will be the week they choose, wouldnt mind a nice black tip for the grill
So who makes a gaff big enough to deck a serious shark?
This will be interesting. Will it be open for anyone in a set time period, or by sold permits?
Same gaffs just have to use 2 or 3 , It can get dicey getting it over the railQuote:
Originally Posted by midwestexile
I have never caught a shark but think it would be a lot of fun, that said I'd rather catch some thing that didn't take hrs to get in and disturb a lot of other fishermen. It sounds like they need thinned out and I was wondering if giving them a sore mouth would help?
Sore mouthing them has never slowed them in the past. You have to help them along to the next life---with extreme prejudice.Quote:
Originally Posted by mike243
Yeah, hooks and leaders are just 'bling' to them ;-)
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XdoSLrY5Uh.../s400/Mr+T.jpg
Since there's a clean up planned with divers , Wouldn't you think it maybe a good idea to have SHARK week before clean up ?
Permits will be sold from what I've been told! Pier pass is included in the price! 6/0 is coming down from Silverdale and bringing his 8/0!Quote:
Originally Posted by JKCOLE
Do you have any links citing the advent of Sharking on the pier?
Straight talk from pier management 2 days ago! Call the pierhouse!Quote:
Originally Posted by ChileRelleno
The last I heard, the clean up is not until October, and the shark rodayo is in June.Quote:
Originally Posted by jollymon
With most State shark limits at 54" minimum, it'll be hard getting them over the rail!
I think I remember in my twenty's, at a pier somewhere around Ft. Walton, a few good ole boys who had no trouble lassoing a shark's tale and laughing like hell as they hauled it over the rail. If I remember right, it was near 5 ft. Tourist with children rushed toward the thrashing thing for a good photo. Did not seem like all that a big deal, in my drunken youth.
Yep, that is 4 1/2feet Fork Length!Quote:
Originally Posted by fshntime
A shark would likely be near 6 feet total length to get that.
We used to land sharks that size from the old DI Pier, but it was only 12 feet above the water...
From what i remember of my youth in california the key was using a couple sturdy gaffs to get it most of the way up, and then doing like Bodebum said and roping the tail to get it over, also saw quite a few guys tie the shark off hanging over the rail by the tail until it was dead or at least very weakened before hauling it over, which seemed like a good idea to me
I think all sharks should be gaffed, subdued if necessary, measured carefully, then returned to the water if undersized. Perhaps they could be neutered before being released.
Couple of years ago a shark was caught at night by the night crew in Panama City pier. It got tied up in the pilings and supports under the pier and left. Was a mess. Caused a bunch of bad publicity for the night time shark fishing.
Getting one over the rail can be difficult if not known how to do it right
Therein lies the rub.Quote:
Originally Posted by fshntime
IMHO there should be no minimum size on Blacktip and Spinner sharks (just like Atlantic Sharpnose and Bonnethead)!
And a one fish per angler per day creel limit.
In just a few years we would see the 'problem' with sharks at the pier disappear, not to mention the recent surge in 'bad publicity' due to the proliferation of these coastal sharks into swimming areas.
David and anyone else, what are the chances of a small child or old slow folks like me getting hurt? Something needs to be done I agree. Just a question.
Are all of the sharks good to eat ? I have read some thing over the years about having to handle promptly to keep the meat from turning bad and smelling like pee ?
...and have their teeth pulled.Quote:
Originally Posted by Haywire
I remember from reading Kon Tiki as a kid that holding them up by the tail paralyzes them and will kill them after only a little while, something about the guts bearing down on the brain.
Maybe we could rig a loop on a long pole like the tree trimmers use to get the rope on them.
Edit: I see those poles are quite expensive. Anybody have access to some tall, stout bamboo?
Longest bamboo gig shafts I've seen sold run 10-12 foot but someone could join 2. These would be awkward to pull with shark attached because they need to pull up vertically.Quote:
Originally Posted by frednic
The long shrimp-dipping nets run 3 sections of perhaps 24' total. Aluminum tube could not LIFT a shark but might deliver a tailing line IF you have long arms. Then one might rope-pull the shark. As I recall tailing loops can be wire rope to hold shape.
All said I don't think we have a complete solution yet.
I've eaten blacktip when it was fantastic and another time it was horrible.
Needs to be bled & filleted ASAP & then iced down.
They will pee through there meat/skin,and need gutted immediately ....I took a 6-1/2 ft black tip off Okaloosa pier years back and it was good eating.....would love to take one off gulf shores.....three gaff's to get it up on the pier, hard to penitrate the shin with a gaff.....the smaller barbed hook gaffs would be the best......it amazed me when it was completely cleaned , nothing but the head left.....there wascthe heart still beating, plus it didn't have the skeleton bone structure of a normal fish.....all meat from head to tail.....a spinal cord is all..... like we have.....I don't see them anymore dangerous then the mouths of kings or Spanish while alive....but then they seem to stay alive a whole lot longer the way that heart was still beating a good half hour laterQuote:
Originally Posted by mike243
No more dangerous than getting sliced by a king or bluefish.Quote:
Originally Posted by coach