First Shark of 2018!

[1morecast]

It took three months, but the skunk streak is broken. After many trips it took a break in the weather, the start of a grunion run and a good sand hand to get my first shark of 2018. Mike and I did our usual Thursday night fishing and we arrived to find weedless conditions and no surf at all. The weather was a bit chilly, but I was OK with it. The critters were out again for me, but Mike seem to have stayed clear of them. I moved a little south to get away from the critters. I got a nice long cast which is rare for me.  Not more then a 3 minute soak, I got two long pull downs. As I got to my rod I set the hook and it felt good to feel some weight on the end of the line again. The shark took some long slow runs north and Mike saw it do a tail slap on the surface. As we pulled it out of the white water we could see it was a juvenile male 7gill shark.


It measured out to be 65" long caught with a chunk of Mac at high tide.
Mike had a couple of legit shark hits too, but the hook pulled twice. Hopefully, the sharks will be showing up more consistently as spring arrives. Too bad rain is forecasted for this weekend otherwise we would have hit the surf again during this grunion run.

Thanks for reading.

[xjchad]

Congrats Binh!  Nice one! 

[Latimeria]

Well congrats Binh!  Time to get you on the front page of the P-Soul website for the shark that broke a long dead streak!

[Latimeria]

Get me an accurate count of your sharks and i will verify.  You may be bumping someone off the chart here soon!

[Pinoyfisher]

Should've been a 3 grinner night, but alas...  Time to play catch up! Binh is for sure dbl digits now and slowly pulling away. 'Twas nice to finally soak a line after some major sick time. Thursday crew is back!!

[sasquatch]

Thought about heading out last night, but got lazy. Yet another bad decision.

Congrats Binh.

[1morecast]

Get me an accurate count of your sharks and i will verify.  You may be bumping someone off the chart here soon!

I'm at 12 sharks since 2015. I hope to knock off Ray soon. 

[vdisney]

Much congrats Binh, hopefully you'll be on a roll now.  Verne

[BackBayMan]

Congrats Binh!

It's been so long for me now I've forgotten what it feels like

[BenCantrell]

Thursday crew is back!!

Ouch, I didn't get an invite. 

Edit: Also, congrats on the shark Binh!

[j.rasta]

Thursday crew is back!!

Ouch, I didn't get an invite. 

Edit: Also, congrats on the shark Binh!

Lmao Ben that's not what I texted Mike last night! 

Congrats Bihn! Way to make your one shot count!

[Donfish]

just one thing and I'll let it go you do know that 7 gill can chew on their tails right?

[1morecast]

Thursday crew is back!!

Ouch, I didn't get an invite. 

Edit: Also, congrats on the shark Binh!

Sorry Ben, Mike wanted to go the super secret spot and too many lines in the water would have decreased my chance of landing the first one.

[WheresMyBeer]

Right on Binh!!! Nice to see the action