Frisky Mako

[Buuushman]

I just finished doing a welding job for a friend of mine, fabbing and installing fenders and sideguides on a trailer for a 36' Force fishing boat and part of the deal was he would take my buddies and I fishing. 2 a.m. Sunday we head out, stop shallow to catch live bait, and then spent all day on a 3 island run stopping at the 4 F.A.D. buoys to troll. The bite was off and the entire day only produced half a dozen small tuna in the 5 pound range and three empty 30 packs. We were kinda bummed so he invited us back out yesterday to bottom fish. Although running the electric riggers up and down all day isn't as much fun, we filled the cooler with amberjack and snapper and were pretty happy with ourselves. Just as we were jacking up our gear to leave, we see a large swirl and a dorsal fin off the port side and thinking it was a marlin we tossed in some bait fish to see if we could keep it occupied long enough to set up a live bait rig. Well what we thought was a marlin turned out to be an 8 foot Mako shark. These are very rare to see in our waters with only about three spotted per year. It snapped up the baits we tossed and started circling the boat and thrashing around pretty aggressively. Then the thing went friggin bonkers. About 20 yards off the stern it comes shooting out of the water doing backflips. 8 feet of teeth and fins clearing the water by a good 4 feet that close was a pretty amazing sight- serious Discovery channel worthy sh*t. All in all it flipped about 6 times and then dissapeared back to the deep. It was something most will never see and I will never forget.

Bush.

[CJ]

Sounds like a great trip! Sure wish I could have been there!

When I lived in FL, I had the greatest times fishing of the coast...

[Cheepjeep85]

only been once and got sick as hell the river don't bother me but the ocean i can't handle. still sounds fun though