Post by ridgecommander on Aug 20, 2023 15:35:55 GMT -5
I finally checked off another bucket list item this past week in Emerald Isle North Carolina. Not just my first nice shark ever from the surf, but I managed to beach two of them. After watching many youtube videos on making rigs and talking to a few folks that have had success, I decided this was the year I was going to dedicate some time soaking fresh hunks of fish.
I am over the moon with my success. No yaking baits out. Just casting from the beach into the deeper sloughs on the changing tides. The onlookers were very surprised at what I drug up from their swimming holes.
Both were caught on 7/0 circle hooks. 86 pound steel leader with haywire twists. 4oz slip sinker on 80 pound mono tail whip leader then to 50 braid.
The first was about 5 1/2 feet and second shark was pushing 6 1/2. I think both were sandbar or brown sharks as the locals call them. Maybe the shark expects here can chime in on the species.
I am over the moon with my success. No yaking baits out. Just casting from the beach into the deeper sloughs on the changing tides. The onlookers were very surprised at what I drug up from their swimming holes.
Both were caught on 7/0 circle hooks. 86 pound steel leader with haywire twists. 4oz slip sinker on 80 pound mono tail whip leader then to 50 braid.
The first was about 5 1/2 feet and second shark was pushing 6 1/2. I think both were sandbar or brown sharks as the locals call them. Maybe the shark expects here can chime in on the species.
