Official GWS Thread

How about this for filling parts of your kayak to allow for holes from large triangular teeth?

http://www.shopmaninc.com/foam.html

cheaper than a kevlar sheet maybe?

 

John post up in the hookup section for a spring GWS hunt...You are our expert, Joel can bring the salmon heads, Erik can bring sturgeon leaders, and I will bring a few neighborhood cats that are bothering me at nite!!!

I'm not sure killing sharks will make them more afraid of people. Are sharks smart enough to understand that when they feel a bullet or a harpoon hit them, that this projectile has been thrown/fired by a person? And furthermore, if we kill a shark, how will it go back and tell its friends that we are to be avoided?

I don't think that an ultimate showdown between the humans and the sharks is quite here yet...

I don't know that Jmairy is going to kill a GWS I think he may be planning to do battle with one though. I think we need to get a couple of guys with camcorders to record all of this though. 

Don't worry John will give you a cut of the profits if you make it, eerrr when you get back in.

P.S. It might be better that you don't kill the beast it wont look good on film and you want him to tell his buddy's that us humans are stating to whup some straighten up on them.

hmm, I'm probbly not your man, sorry to disappoint. but I'm considering adusting my will and leaving
$30K to the  member of ncka that brings one down, should I be eaten,   .  practice up on
your harpoon throwing!

regarding the fear of humans thing, malibu two, you are perhaps over-anthropomorphizing, projecting
human qualities on something that does just fine without them.

coyotes and bobcats can't talk but most of them avoid humans almost religiously. how'd that happen?

I think it really comes down to genetic selection more than anything else.
The sharks that naturally avoid boats etc, live, and the others, well, they die.
Over time, you get a population that avoids humans. There might be a few individuals that learn fast,
and those ones live too.  This is similar to the idea that when the largest of the fish are always kept,
you end up with a population of smaller fish over time, which somebody else on this board spoke of.

Did you know that this diver rodney orr was attacked twice! both near tomales point. he fought the shark
off both times, sticking his thumb in the eye once, next time punching the shark while his head was stuck
in the jaws. holy cow. TWICE. I can't decide if he's the luckiest guy to ever live or the unluckiest,  

I think coyotes and bobcats, mammals for that matter, are smarter than fish and can understand that humans are dangerous...I agree with the natural selection theory - that animals that have a tendency to veer close to humans (curiosity, stupidity, etc) die off, unless they are protected, like with great whites...

That's not real is it? It's some great Photoshop work, though!

Supposedly it's real, from south africa though.

Yes this is a new South Africa training program and it seems the time trials have improved dramatically, well the ones that have survived the training program that is.

Gowen the thread killer

Yeah Blue I was hopping I might run in to you. Thought you might show at the lunch-in we had. So whats up at Dux ? Just so you know I was planning on doing some salmon trolling so I appreciate the addvice on the equipment you guy's have been posting. Got myself a two piece Shimano 9' 6"  15-30 MH on the way.

what's the #1 shark attack location?

tomales point/ bird rock. 9 attacks. almost all ab divers.

how about santa cruz/ aptos? any attacks? yep.

16 year old girl, '60's back when they swam in the ocean.

a lot of sharks appear off pt pinos. that spot is sharky.
multiple attacks.

pigeon point. yeppers. multiple attacks.

spot where I got that halibut? yep, attack in 1991.

oregon? the new shark attack destination. reedsport with a multiple.

"the book" is cool!

I don't have tv. how was that superbowl thing? 

bsteves, the fish scientist posted this outside the hallowed GWS thread. (I kind of want to knock on his skull,
see if anybody is home, what he didn't see this thread?  or the same picture already posted here?
maybe his brain is a little mushy due to being a new Dad, that does have that effect.)

great post bsteves, next time just put it in the right place so we don't have to take your ling-killin', fish-printin'
ignorant scientist butt to task again! 

he posts:

Evidently this photo has started much debate on whether it is fake or not.  It was first published in "Africa Geographic"  and appears to be real.  See the link below for a scan of the original article.


http://www.whitesharktrust.org/pages/mediaarticle/media25.html


Brian

It is real.  Its from African Geographic, they did a whole issue on GWS.  The pic is also discussed at SNOPES as real as well.

http://www.topkayaker.net/Articles/NatureIssues/sharks.htm#AVOID