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Richard Casady

On Thu, 28 May 2009 22:10:03 -0500, lid wrote:

On Thu, 28 May 09, 11:48-0400, HK wrote:
What about sharks? They must view the fish caught on long lines as a
chow line. I wonder how often when pulling in those lines, the fishermen
encounter a large shark caught on the line and maybe really mad.

Many of the sharks I've encountered leave the fish's head on the hook.
And when they do eat the whole fish, they simultaneously bite through
the line like a hot knife through butter. All the shark fishing rigs
I know of use a long length of steel leader. Is steel what a long line
is made of??

The longliner I looked at had fifty miles of 700 lb mono, and the
leaders were mono as well, as far as I know: there were none in
evidence when I looked at the boat.

Casady