Blacknose and spinner sharks in the surf

[BenCantrell]

This is a much delayed report, but I'm finally caught up on photos, so here it is. Back in May my friend Steve visited from CA and wanted to try for finetooth sharks in the surf. Last year we caught 5 finetooths at the end of March, so we thought they might be around.



We got a bite shortly after casting out baits. The fish barely put a bend in the rod, which is actually what we wanted to see for potential finetooths.



The culprit ended up being a blacknose shark, one Steve didn't need for his lifelist but still a very cool catch.



A short while later Steve caught a second blacknose.



Ally wanted to catch a blacknose as well, so we went out again the following weekend. She got a bite right away, and it was a decent fish!



It was a big spinner shark! They're similar to blacktips, but they have a much pointier snout, more streamlined body, and a black tip on the anal fin. Blacktips have black tips on all the fins except the anal fin.



Here's Ally's blacktip from last year for reference.



Her next bite was her lifer blacknose. Two new shark species in one session is pretty darn lucky.



The blacknose's black nose.



A friend from Canada was passing through, and he joined us about 15 minutes after we released Ally's blacknose. We were sure we'd put him on some sharks as well, but we fished the next 4 hours with not a single bite. Funny how it works that way. We felt bad about it, but we were swapping out fresh baits every 30 minutes, and they just weren't getting bit.



Now head over to the Freshwater Shore Fishing Reports...

[Latimeria]

We'll done guys. Florida makes it look to easy!

[Tim524]

 Sharks are so cool to look at and from the pics they are really fun to catch as well, nice job !

[vdisney]

Stoked for you guys, and a little jealous at the same time.  It's been a LONG time since I've caught a shark off the sand   

[1morecast]

Nice job! That beach looks pretty empty too.

[BenCantrell]

Nice job! That beach looks pretty empty too.

Yeah that's the best part about this part of FL.

[jrodda]

Those look like a lot of fun. Hope to get out there some day.

[Pinoyfisher]

I wish we had the diversity FL has!