Posted on 05/25/2006 2:23:06 PM PDT by Sax
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- A Port Charlotte man didn't let the big one get away.
Bucky Dennis caught a 1,280-pound hammerhead shark Tuesday in Boca Grande Pass.
Dennis was alone on his boat when the nearly 13 foot animal took the bait -- a 25-pound stingray.
A friend on a nearby vessel climbed aboard Dennis' boat to help with the catch.
Dennis said they finally got the shark on the boat after about five hours.
Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
I've fished this pass before - best place in the world for tarpon - there was supposed to be some 18ft hammerhead that lived there the locals called Old Hitler.
I think two of the previous record holders were caught off of Sanibel Island. I saw one flip up on to the beach while chasing mullet and he wiggled himself back down into the water - not many waders the rest of the afternoon. I caught a little 3.5 footer on that beach a while back.
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He already had my admiration for using a 25 lb stingray as bait.
i clicked on the "slideshow" and it turned out to be a plug for greenpeace.
Who threw it?
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We need a bigger boat...
I have a buddy who fished the pass this past weekend. The water is filled with tarpon and the sharks who love them. If they'd just move the tarpon tournament dates forward some, they'd actually have competitors catching tarpon.
Great place for Tarpon - second best to Islamorada in my book. I've heard stories about a giant hammer down there - maybe that was Old Hitler...who knows!
I caught a 9 (eyeball guess) foot tiger shark in 64 and got him aboard in 30 minutes with a little help form my friends. Actually I was on a Snapper smack on Campeche anchored up for the night. We 2 young guys (in an 11 man crew) threw out some cable and huge fishhooks we found in the focsle with half a grouper on. It was not very far from the boat and the shark got it. We dragged it up beside the boat and I shot it 6 times with my .38 spec. where I judged its brain or whatever substitute it had might be. It got still so we hauled it on board. Big mistake. it commenced to thrash around and cracked the port rail and made a real mess. We sat up on the deckhouse for a couple hours until we were sure that thing wouldn't go nuts again. One of the old men aboard knew how to work leather and we skinned it out for him. After we got back to Pensacola it became a gorgeous gunbelt and old hickory sheath and uppers for a pair of boots he never finished.
and Eddie and I didn't get our shares for the trip because our shark tore up the boat a bit.
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