12½-Foot, 550-Pound Great Hammerhead Shark Caught Off Beach

local6 ^ | 25-sept-2007

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Thanks!

[abigailsmybaby]

I have heard of that before now that you explain it. He caught it with a pole.

I'm embarrassed. I grew up in the midwest. Oh well, I never was a serious fisherman.

[abigailsmybaby]

Extreme sport is right!

[devolve]

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We threw out a big shark hook on a private sports fishing boat ( a veterinarian friend of my father's owned the boat) for my (very) little sister going out of Hillsboro Inlet one day after seeing a huge shark in the area.

We caught sailfish, dolphin a good haul of large fish - Then on the way back in felt a big tug on the boat that made it shudder.

At the dock we pulled in the line and found the big hook was straightened out like it was a soft paper clip.

My little sister's big shark was a huge hammerhead....

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[onedoug]

And then there were none....

[TFFKAMM]

Here's a great video of a shark this big stealing a fisherman's tarpon catch.

[potlatch]

[My little sister’s big shark was a huge hammerhead.... ]

Wow, thankfully she wasn’t holding on and pulled overboard!!

[devolve]

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It was a stout line fastened to a cleat on the boat

My brother, father, our vet, and I used the outriggers on the way out
Few people in NYC believed my sister as she told some of out adventures

Putting a big truck tire tube over a piling on the Inlet with an old towel wrapped around the tube - then a heavy strong parachute cord, a steel shark chain, a forged steel hook, a bloody chicken

That tube stetched out over 15’ when the shark we hooked was at the end of his run

Then the shark started going side to side ramming the reinforced concrete seawall

We brought the liver home and our cat stood on top of it

Antone telling you we are running out of sharks and gators is blowing cider in your ear &/or is an ignorant fool

These monsters are millions of years old and we are but a tiny dot on a calendar

OK Bud -

I finally wrote a few of our stories!

[potlatch]

Good stories devolve! No way are we we are running out of sharks and gators. They kill people and pets all the time.

They sell alligator boots in Mexico but we are not allowed to bring them into the U.S.!!

[Bonaparte]

"That head would make a great mailbox if cleaned up and hollowed out properly."

No kidding, especially if it was rigged to snap shut on the wrong hands!

Come to think of it, it might also make a very cool hood ornament on a nice fat Chrysler Cordoba, maybe with a sheetmetal saw-tooth tailfin along the roofline --

[devolve]

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Legal gator farms in Florida

Other states too

I’m too rough on them to get those exotic boots

I recall a gator farm long ago in Florida that had two huge pits

One with a croc

One with a gator

My eyes were smaller then so they were bigger

But they were enormous

[VeniVidiVici]

There's a "Flagler Beach" in Florida and this may just be a typo.....but then again, it may not be.

I think it's supposed to be Flagler Beach.

Interesting thing is that New Smyrna Beach is just down the road aways. If I remember correctly, New Smyrna is the shark bite capital of Florida.

[tina07]

didn’t know that about New Smyrna Beach. I’ve never been there, but my husband was born there. He was the second baby born in “Fish Hospital”!

[potlatch]

[I’m too rough on them to get those exotic boots]

Yes, they are purely for ‘show’ and can be damaged easily.

I saw alligator farms on vacations, the kids enjoyed it, lol.

You mean ‘your body was smaller’. From what I’ve read your eyes are the same size when a baby as when you are an adult. That’s why babies have that darling look with the big eyes!!

[devolve]

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Yup

Up around Hendersonville

And big catfish

Try the Pisgah Fishcamp at the Pisgah Forest entry

And bowhunting for wild turkey is big there

I’m spooky with a rifle or carbine at night - but those bowhunters are unreal

When fishing season opens there you better be out there

The pros know where and when the best will be

[Bonaparte]

I like your fishing story, PF, but I thought sail-cats were only found in places like freeway shoulders.

[tiki island]

The high school kids near Galveston will bait a big hook with a chicken or ham hock, drop it out in the surf, and leave the rest of the line attached to a pick up.

So, you've met my grandsons.

I think the Sheriff put a end to this.

[potlatch]

http://muskie.outdoorsfirst.com/

Muskie are not shark, are they devolve? I looked it up earlier and wrote about what they eat, etc...

[Bonaparte]

"... would be a nice centerpiece or maybe a hanging bar light."

Absolutely! You could also make molds of it so you'd have plenty of green-and-red life-size plastic replicas to spread around for Christmas. Maybe with light ornament eyes. Very festive touch for the Holidays! And who knows? You might even get your design into Southern Living or Architectural Digest. Then you'd be famous!

[devolve]

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No - not sharks

Northern fish

NC lost lots of trees up on Mount Mitchell and elsewhere and some fish have been difficult to keep stocked

I recall seeing large albino fish up at the hatchieries - the Rangers said birds would nail them fast and first

Unfortunately in NC as other states there are those pros who cheat during fishing season opening and “limits” and are probably the same jerks out using lights on the deer at night

Those deer often end up as dogfood for those who travel NC-SC to steal and sell fine hunting hounds