Hammer Head Sharks Showing up off the coast of Ft Lauderdale

Wednesday, January 6. 2010

Hammer Head Sharks Showing up off the coast of Ft Lauderdale

Today we had Roy from Miami, Melissa from Colorado, Nancy from Georgia and Brit from Baltimore out for a morning of deep sea fishing.

We knew that there has been a few sail fish around so we went right to kite fishing with our live baits suspended from the kites. But since there had been a few Wahoo’s around we decided to put about 8 inches of # 6 wire on the end of our leaders just in case we got a shot at a Wahoo he would not bite threw our monofilament leaders. But what happen next we never expected.

As we were watching our kite baits we seen a big fin closing in fast on one of our little live baits that was suspended from the kite. Captain J.J. knew that the odds of catching such a big shark on such light tackle would be almost imposable so he tried reeling the bait up in the air so this big shark couldn’t get to it. But this time the fish was quicker than J.J. and got to the bait before J.J. could get it up and out of the water.

Ok so now we were Hooked Up with this monster shark that was just screaming the line off the reel like a freight train and it looked as if we were never going to turn him around. But we were connected and we were going to give it our best shot. Brit jumped up and said she was up for the fight.

So with Brit in the chair and a monster shark on the other end the fight began. Much to everyone’s surprise Brit was really putting it to this fish and I don’t know if she was wearing him down or if the shark just decided to turn around to see what this was tugging on him but he finally turned around and before we knew it he was close enough to the boat for J.J. to reach out and get a hold of him.

Needless to say the shark was not happy about this and went totally nuts at the boat but before he knew what was going on Captain Greg and J.J. slid him into the tuna door.

We got a quick measurement HOLY COW 98 inch Hammer Head Shark on 30 pound test with a very light leader. Now this is a catch anyone would be proud off. (WAY TO GO BRIT)