| Know Your Opponent and His Habits! | | | | California. The longfin mako is a rarer |
| | | | species that favors the open seas of the |
| SHARKS!! | | | | Caribbean and Pacific. Few longfin mako have |
| | | | ever been caught off the Atlantic coast or |
| The world's most relentless predatory | | | | Gulf of Mexico. The mako ranks among the most |
| machines have finally met their match!! | | | | dangerous of sharks. Experienced fishermen |
| | | | everywhere always approach them with the |
| The fearsome shark, historic and future top | | | | greatest of care. They are furious when |
| dog of the oceanic food chain, is now the | | | | hooked, and although their 20' and 30' jumps |
| favorite meal of the supreme predator of the | | | | are exciting, makos will often try to ram or |
| oceans,the Sport Fishing boat. | | | | leap into the enemy's boat. |
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| Lately a larger part of the population has | | | | --No shark should be brought boat-side or |
| adopted big-game fishing as a weekend | | | | onto the deck until it is completely |
| activity. Sharks have become a favorite | | | | exhausted -- |
| target, especially in northeastern waters. | | | | |
| Its fearsome meat-eating style incites the | | | | -- A living shark brought close to |
| great North American game fisherman or | | | | overconfident fishermen can cause serious |
| fisherwoman to prove themselves against this | | | | injury.--Â |
| ancient creature of the deep. | | | | |
| | | | A wounded Mako, like all other large sharks, |
| The shark is widely available to the sport of | | | | can bite with strength until drawing its |
| fishing, because its omnivorous appetite | | | | very last breath. |
| shows little discrimination for artificially | | | | |
| rigged bait. They'll eat anything!!! | | | | Tiger Shark Fishing |
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| A booming shark sport fishing cottage | | | | Tiger sharks prowl both the in-shore and open |
| industry has been created featuring many | | | | waters of the southern Atlantic, Gulf of |
| tournaments and contests, and bringing to the | | | | Mexico, West Indies, and Caribbean, and also |
| dock thousands of blues, makos, tiger sharks | | | | visit frequently warm Pacific waters from |
| and bull sharks ready to be "steak cut" or | | | | southern California to Peru. They are even |
| filleted for a weekend barbeque. | | | | occasionally found off the Northeast and |
| | | | Pacific Northwest coasts in mid-summer. |
| Key West Shark fishing charters .....more | | | | |
| shark information | | | | Tiger sharks are tireless feeders that can |
| | | | attack anything, everything, anytime, |
| For the most part, we are covering the more | | | | anywhere. They are tenacious, acrobatic, and |
| common and widely available sharks here. What | | | | terribly strong when hooked. These sharks |
| applies to these more common sharks also | | | | provide even seasoned big-game bounty |
| applies to the more regional species such as | | | | fishermen a full test of skill. The result is |
| the great white, hammerhead, bull shark, | | | | a shark very popular with big-game fishing |
| white tip and black tip. | | | | captains around the world. |
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| The common blue shark is the most numerous of | | | | The tiger sharks' eating habits make it a |
| popular game shark fishing found in North | | | | good bet for the trophy room, but its |
| America, which include makos, tigers, whites, | | | | aggressive tendencies in shallow water have |
| and hammerheads. Sport fishermen will also | | | | never been good news for swimmers, surfers |
| fish for others but the species discussed | | | | and the like. Tigers are predators that pose |
| here are runaway favorites for their size, | | | | the greatest danger of all sharks to human |
| ferocity, and availability. | | | | beings, because they constantly prowl the |
| | | | shallow shore waters where people swim. |
| Blue Shark Fishing | | | | |
| | | | They are possessed of a relentless drive to |
| The blue shark, preferring cool to temperate | | | | attack and eat any easily available prey and |
| waters, is found throughout northeastern | | | | are not overly discriminating. Tigers have |
| waters in summer months. Blue sharks are most | | | | attacked dozens of swimmers and surfers off |
| prevalent off the coast of Long Island and | | | | Florida's and Australia's coasts -- though it |
| New England, and they range as far south as | | | | must be noted that the percentage |
| Virginia, Maryland, and the Carolinas. | | | | of those attacked is still terribly small as |
| Pacific blues are found as far north as | | | | compared to the millions of swimmers on those |
| Alaska, and have been consistently spotted in | | | | same beaches that a shark attack could be |
| Chilean waters. | | | | compared in probability to being struck by |
| | | | lightning. |
| Blues do not generally hunt for larger | | | | |
| mammals and such prey -- they can often be | | | | Tiger sharks will eat anything, as people |
| found trailing whaling and shrimp boats | | | | cutting open these sharks have found. The |
| feeding on waste and bait discards. Yet they | | | | tiger is the source of the shark's reputation |
| are among the most aggressive of all sharks | | | | for omnivore (eats anything), and its diet |
| when provoked, and have been known to attack | | | | has included fish, crabs, turtles, stingrays, |
| humans when in this state. | | | | birds, other sharks, nuts and bolts, lumps of |
| | | | coal, articles of clothing, boat cushions, |
| Mako (Makko) Shark Fishing | | | | tin cans, various garbage, human limbs, the |
| | | | hind leg of a sheep, and even a few car |
| The Mako shark has an uncharacteristically | | | | license plates. |
| idiosyncratic-like diet (for a shark) and is | | | | |
| extremely tough to land after hooked. The | | | | Tiger shark hunters must treat this eating |
| mako is definitely a game fish for saltwater | | | | machine with the utmost of care and respect. |
| fishermen who know what they're doing and | | | | Sometimes even before they are even hooked, |
| have some experience. The penalty for | | | | Tiger sharks will try to jump into a boat to |
| inexperience in this case can be serious | | | | reach the source of the chum they've been |
| injury. The mako is heavily desired among | | | | following. |
| veteran anglers from Montauk to the Sea of | | | | |
| Cortez -- no other shark possesses or | | | | Shy is definitely not a term that applies to |
| displays the jaw set and teeth of this brute | | | | these eating machines. When hooked, they |
| force shark. | | | | should be fought until they totally |
| | | | exhausted, and (if necessary to kill them) |
| Adult mako sharks are world class predators. | | | | the kill should be made before bringing them |
| The rnako comes in two versions, the longfin | | | | on deck. You would not want to kill any shark |
| and shortfin. Both subspecies range through | | | | you did not plan to keep. Even exhausted, |
| the tropical and warm-waters of the Atlantic | | | | sharks will survive if released; sometimes |
| and Pacific. The shortfin, however, will | | | | near death. |
| often hunt inshore, which makes it the far | | | | |
| more common prey of boat captains and charter | | | | --No shark should be brought boat-side or |
| fishing trips. | | | | onto the deck until it is completely |
| | | | exhausted -- |
| It also makes it more of the more dangerous | | | | |
| sharks to swimmers, surfers and surf | | | | -- A living shark brought close to |
| fishermen. It also seems, from available | | | | overconfident fishermen can cause serious |
| evidence, to be the more widely distributed | | | | injury.--Â |
| mako, occurring in the Atlantic from Cape Cod | | | | |
| to Argentina, including the Gulf of Mexico | | | | A wounded Mako, like all other large sharks, |
| and the Caribbean, and in the Pacific from | | | | can bite with strength until drawing its very |
| the Columbia River in summer to California | | | | last breath. |
| coastal waters and as far south as Chile | | | | |
| year-round. | | | | Instructional DVDs on How to Throw a Cast |
| | | | Net, Yellowtail & Mutton Snapper fishing, |
| Mako have been spotted in the Gulf of | | | | Live Bait Trolling, and more!! |