WHo's caught Thresher sharks from a Yak?

Would love to hear the stories and locations..

Thanks, Eric

Dumb Luck....

 Twice Frozen Sardine off Coyote Point...

 Won me a Trip to Rancho Leonaro.....

i know chuckE got a baby too often HMB

Take a wack at the forum search function.  if you want stories, PJ started a FANTASTIC writeup and lost of pics

Dumb Luck....

 Twice Frozen Sardine off Coyote Point...

 Won me a Trip to Rancho Leonaro.....

Thats a great looking thresher brother. Didn't know they were in the bay. One of those rare catch huh. Wait  Coyote point is in the bay by San Mateo right?

I've caught several threshers down south in the Malibu area never any up here.

That 2-week period there were huge schols of anchovies in the Bay.  They were followed in by a bunch of threshers.  The week before the bite was at Oyster Point.  Danglin's catch at Coyote was unusual, but not unheard of, according to old-timers I talked to.  Love to see it happen again.  I believe it was mid-October....?

Allen

ps..you should have hear him screaming on the vhf "Its a Thresher, Its a Thresher!!!"  We were all cracking up.  then his reel broke, I think he brought it in hand-over-hand.  haha

That 2-week period there were huge schols of anchovies in the Bay.  They were followed in by a bunch of threshers.  The week before the bite was at Oyster Point.  Danglin's catch at Coyote was unusual, but not unheard of, according to old-timers I talked to.  Love to see it happen again.  I believe it was mid-October....?

Allen

Hopefully it does happen again up here. Thershers are really fun to fight.

Before you read this, I would like to make one thing perfectly clear.... Parts of this story are out-right lies; but I'm not saying which parts.

I've seen a couple caught out at Tomales over the years, just not in a yak.

Is there any size or limit? and do you have too fillet at a certain time? I only know that shark meat starts gettin stinky after a while in the sun

Is there any size or limit? and do you have too fillet at a certain time? I only know that shark meat starts gettin stinky after a while in the sun

I paddled in, shot to a store, bought 3 bags of ice and was back at the launch before PJ landed with the still alive shark. We shot the pics, bled it, then filleted and steaked the entire fish immediately into big chest of ice ASAP. I vacuum sealed a bunch of steaks the second I got home and threw them in the freezer. We ate a big one a couple days ago. They bring tears to your eyes they're so good.

No doubt, it's at the top of my tastiest fish list. I'm sure the Mercury is killing my brain, but those steaks are so damn good that occasionally forget my name doesn't seem very important.

The strangest thing about thresher is that if you throw it on a grill outside it attracts large numbers of cats, which isn't the case with most fish. This is a confirmed repeatable observation. I don't know what it means.

It is probably the first time they have smelled that much fish from your grill  . On the real topic. I have seen several caught out of Moss landing towards Pajaro Dunes on a pb. Last year off there were quite a few caught from  the cement ship and by pbs working out of Capitola, all small. I never was able to try for them before they left.

They bring tears to your eyes they're so good.  No doubt, it's at the top of my tastiest fish list.

I'm with you on this one.  I tried thresher for the first time in SoCal.  It was delicious.

I've seen threshers out of Santa Cruz and Capitola, but havent targeted them.  We once saw a shark (thresher?) jump clear out of the water about 5 to 8 feet.  It was very impressive (and scary)

My friend hooked a big t-shark off Sunset beach about 10 years ago (in his old Dorsett). We were coming back from rockfishing and decided to send down a huge smelt...just to see what might be hungry.
The shark was at least 8ft long (including tail) and jumped 7-8 times. We got it all the way to the boat before it snapped the line....it was all wrapped up in the mono. We looked for it for about 15 minutes because we surmised it wasn't going to survive the long battle and mono-jacket....but no luck.
This was about a mile (maybe 2 miles) off Sunset beach. Late summer if I remember correctly.