"Tinkerntom" wrote in message
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Doug Kanter wrote:
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On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 15:44:35 -0500, "NOYB" wrote:


"FishWisher" wrote in message
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I dunno... this is about catching sturgeon, not Bush or sex or
commies.
Is
fishing considered OT on rec.boats?

Anyway, I finally caught my first sturgeon of the season on my
fifth
try.
I cruised down to Suisun Bay (on the California Delta) Wednesday
afternoon
to spend the night near Garnet Point. About 10:30 I had a feisty,
tough
sturgeon on that seemed a lot bigger than he turned out to be. He

weighed
in at 43 pounds and measured 58". It took me nearly twenty
minutes to
get
him to the boat. He was a very slender, tough male.

I read a story a couple of years ago about flying sturgeon up in
the
Panhandle Area. A 6 foot sturgeon jumped out of the water, drilled
some
guy
in the chest, broke his sternum and some ribs, and nearly knocked
him out
of
the boat.

And some people say that fishing isn't a sport!

I was in the vicinity when this happened and heard the aftermath on
the radio, but I didn't see it. A friend of mine was within 60
yards
of the event.

Apparently four guys in a 24 foot Hydra Sports CC latched onto a
small
mako - about 5/6 feet or so and very athletic. It sounded aft of
the
boat and all of a sudden came right up out of the water and into
the
boat. The mako started taking chunks out of everything in site and
just beating the hell out of the interior of the boat. The four
guys
were hanging off the T-top trying to avoid getting whacked or a
piece
taken out of their hide.

In an odd twist of fate, the fish had broken off the line at some
point and with one flip/flop went back over the stern and swam
away.

I gathered from the after action report that the interior of the
boat
was trashed.

When I lived in Long Island, a friend's dad ran a charter boat out of
Bay
Shore. Mostly he went for flounder, but sometimes, clients would ask
to go
chasing sharks. For those trips, he brought a shotgun along, and
whatever
size slugs you'd use for bears. Said he'd seen too many shark hunters
come
back to the marina with some of their boats' windows gone.

I would wonder about fishing with a shotgun? I suppose if they're
jumping out of the water, you can shoot them on the wing. Sort of like
pheasant hunting, its not very sporting if you shoot them on the
ground. Of course if you shoot to low, and blast a hole in your hull,
the shark will be having you for dinner. TnT


I knew nothing about guns at the time, so I never asked what the plan was.
Considering what I know now, I *still* don't know. I suppose if the shark
was momentarily still while in the water next to the boat, the captain
might've had a shot, but it seems dubious. After all, in a shark, where is
the equivalent of what snipers call "the plum" - the base of the brain in a
human, where a shot is an absolute end to everything?