Cape Mendo GWS - 11/11/18

Wow!

Whoa Eric! ... glad everyone was ok. He did have some scars on him too glad he didn’t want mess with the King and crew that day  . What do you think he ate your halbuit or rockfish ? I’ve seen a big T shark get pulled to the yak “ like on leash “ then realize its hooked then gone.

Dingbats on the UK page persisting with their assertion that the others didn't believe me - not true.

Whatever.

I noticed that too and called bullshit.  Fake news!!   

From 2009

Let's just hope that when I do finally have an encounter that I get it on video and there's no bloodshed.   

Classic!!

Whoa Eric! ... glad everyone was ok. He did have some scars on him too glad he didn’t want mess with the King and crew that day  . What do you think he ate your halbuit or rockfish ? I’ve seen a big T shark get pulled to the yak “ like on leash “ then realize its hooked then gone.

It took my herring.  I pulled it to the yak like it was nothing - obviously that means it swam at me, because this thing was indeed the size of a car.  I could only see something tan and big below me.  Then after taking a little run on the surface I pulled it to me again - that's when I saw it was definitely a GWS.  I feel strongly that it had my herring in its mouth, or the weak fight and run would've felt different.

Dang!
That'll get your heart racing. Your reaction was real.
Glad it was a tame encounter Bro!
No thanks.

What surprises me is how brown it looks.  I've seen a number right up close, and they were much darker on top, with a really distinct light-colored bottom.  Saw one sideways in front of me from the yak once, it was four or five feet deep a few feet off my bow and the water was murky.  That one had a kind of tan tinge come to think of it.  Also mottling or freckling like a salmon shark, but the size was GWS.  Never saw the front or back end. It just kept going by....and going, and going, and going.  I didn't feel scared, much......Man what a great experience!

Bushy

From 2009

Let's just hope that when I do finally have an encounter that I get it on video and there's no bloodshed.   

Pat, how do you do that?

From 2009

Let's just hope that when I do finally have an encounter that I get it on video and there's no bloodshed.   

Pat, how do you do that?

Probably remembered a distinctive word from the post and searched for it - like "bloodshed".

Nice fish! Remember to pinch its mouth closed on the hog trough.

Nice fish! Remember to pinch its mouth closed on the hog trough.

You can see the mouth in slo-mo.

What an amazing experience!!!!


and clearly made better (as hard is it is to imagine) by some family time in the evening!

You reeled in a GWS. Documented it. Then broke it off...... cuz it's against the rules to do anything else with or to it. Only you could have pulled that off.
WHOwouldHAVEguessedITwoudGOdownLIKEthat?
 I hope, wish and pray to Mother Ocean that no one ever gets hurt by one.
 

my word thats sum shark

https://b.thechive.com/pAn670ShSR


Dude, you made the chive!

https://www.foxnews.com/great-outdoors/fisherman-accidentally-hooks-great-white-shark-thought-i-had-a-huge-halibut