Crew: Tim, Greg, John, DonP, Pat, Rick
Water Temp: 66.5-68.5
Tide: Moving
Wind: None
Conditions: A few clouds and 1 foot seas
Fish Caught: Six blue sharks
It was my in-laws 50th anniversary picnic this weekend and with my wife being one of six sisters we had family up from all over the place.
My brother in law came from Jersey with his daughters boyfriend "John".
We joked that we were going to take him shark fishing, 5 people leave, 4 return.
Left Galesferry marina at 5am with DonP, Rick, My Nephew Patrick, My brother in Law Greg and his daughters boyfriend John to try our luck at sharking.
Since John was only 16, and never been before, I didnt want to go to far and selected the acid barge.
Heading out in pitch black darkness!
This is the GoldStar Bridge!
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Patrick and Don somehow were able to sleep!
(Click to Enlarge) The sky really lite up right before the sunrise!
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Not being used to fighting sharks, John is ready to hand the rod off.
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Greg fought the shark for a little while.
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And we released a nice blueshark.
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We were using live dogfish for shark bait.
(Click to Enlarge)We set up at the Acid Barge with four rods.
Direction was given that John is getting the first fish.
We didnt have to wait long, within 15 minutes the rod goes off, a not so good hook set and the fish comes off.
Ten minutes later it is game on for John!
(Click to Enlarge)Not being used to fighting sharks, John is ready to hand the rod off.
I am not sure what Rick and Greg are doing here to get ready???
(Click to Enlarge)Greg fought the shark for a little while.
(Click to Enlarge)And we released a nice blueshark.
(Click to Enlarge)We were using live dogfish for shark bait.
And one of them was pregnant with babies!
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The babies were still alive so we put them in a chum bucket with water.
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We had some good blueshark action thru the day.
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So we decided to toss out one of the little dogfish babies!
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And managed to catch Dotty! (Note, You can see the scare/dot on the side of her head!)
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(Click to Enlarge)The babies were still alive so we put them in a chum bucket with water.
(Click to Enlarge) We had some good blueshark action thru the day.
At one point, we had two sharks around the boat for so long we named them, Dotty and Hooky.
These sharks would not take anything!They just swam around the boat!
(Click to Enlarge) So we decided to toss out one of the little dogfish babies!
The blue shark inhaled it!
We then rigged one on a hook!
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(Click to Enlarge) We managed to release a half dozen blue sharks thru out the day!
Flew home is some fantastic seas!
It was another great day aboard FishingFINattic!
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