Cape Mendo GWS - 11/11/18

Here's what went down today: My daughter's home from college, and I wanted to get some fresh bottom fish for tacos as well as fresh carcasses for crabbing. I got up early and followed the forecasts and buoy reports, and it seemed potentially rough and windy this morning. I ended up taking my time and going over the hill to the Cape around 930AM, launching by around 1030. Saw five other yaks on the water, so I fished my way to them. It was a nice day with a decent bite. I hooked up with Rob Bray to say hi, and he was hanging with Josh Jerge. Ryan King, Jason Webster and Gabe Acosta were nearby. After just BS'ing for like 5 minutes I announced that I was heading for shore because I just wanted to get a couple lings and a few blacks and head out to get my girls crabbing on the bay. A minute later I'm retrieving my line and I'm hooked up - feels like a maybe-legal ling. I bring it toward the boat with almost no fight, and I see something down there that's tan and BIG! It takes off along the surface, and I announce to the guys around me that I have what looks like a really big halibut on. They see I'm fighting something right on the surface and like 40 feet from me, and I bring it to the yak - again, almost no fight, and then I see it's a GWS! It was basically just coming to me like it was on a leash!

Well, then it turns and just heads out. Not super fast or urgent, but it just turns and goes. I'm broken off pretty quickly, and I'm exclaiming to the guys that it was a Great White! Then Josh has it next to him, and that prompted me to get the camera turned on as fast as I could.

Managed to get the ladies crabbing for an hour at the end of the day - great Double Day! 

Great Reports Eric and holy cow dude!

Stayed true to your word Eric and got some awesome video. Glad you guys are safe. Yeah it’s the width and bulk of the shark that surprises you more then the length.


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That would've been crab bait for the season 

Nice vid and report buddy 

Great report and pictures and someone finally got the shot,

Great shot...seems like a blessing that you scored such an awesome encounter.

time to deploy Shark Shield device?

Awesome video, Eric!   

Nicely done!  Glad all turned out well.

Eric, thanks for the video, what an awesome experience!

Hahaha didn't even phase those dudes you were fishing with! Cool footage man

Holy Fawk!!!!! That a Effin Tank!!!!

Great video Eric! 

Hahaha didn't even phase those dudes you were fishing with! Cool footage man

That’s an extremely salty group of guys. However, if you do find yourself in that situation, I recommend taking your own advice.

“You just listen to the old Pork Chop Express here now and take his advice on a dark and stormy night when the lightning's crashin' and the thunder's rollin' and the rain's coming down in sheets thick as lead. Just remember what old Jack Burton does when the earth quakes, and the poison arrows fall from the sky, and the pillars of Heaven shake. Yeah, Jack Burton just looks that big old storm right square in the eye and he says, "Give me your best shot, pal. I can take it."”

Your salmon net is no longer big enough Eric