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Offline Captain Dave Wittenborn

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LBI Weekend Report-Thresher Shark
« on: June 22, 2008, 06:59:12 PM »
Thresher Shark!

The weather was kind to us this weekend and so was the fishing.  The catch of the weekend was a 24" 5.02lb fluke which was caught on the Garden State South Reef.  We thought we were snagged on the bottom until it started tugging back.  I would not say that the catching was easy, however, if you put time in you were most likely rewarded.

I saw an amazing occurrence this weekend.  We were snagging bunker off Brant Beach in search of some trophy striped bass when out of the corner of my eye I saw several gulls on top of the water behaving abnormally.  I decided to move the boat a little closer to have a look when I saw a large mass of bunker piling on top of one another in an odd fashion.  They were not splashing around as they normally do, just climbing on top of one another trying to obviously get away from something underneath.  I thought it was my lucky day and went to reach for my rod with the weighted treble hook.  Just then, about twenty bunker came shooting out of the water and were followed by a huge Thresher Shark.  It slapped it's tail on top of the water a couple of times and slowly vanished beneath the surface.  It was frightening and amazing at the same time to see this predator so close up but what was even more frightening was that it occurred only a couple of hundred yards off the beach.  Swimmers beware!
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Re: LBI Weekend Report-Thresher Shark
« Reply #1 on: June 22, 2008, 07:03:15 PM »
Nice report Captain Dave.

We saw that last year several times. Awesome sight. Even hooked into two of them while fluke fishing. Of course, we didn't land either one.  t^

Nice catch on the 5# fluke.  t^
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Re: LBI Weekend Report-Thresher Shark
« Reply #2 on: June 22, 2008, 07:55:53 PM »
Congrats on the Fluke TT^

We saw a Thresher do the same thing last week about 20' of the port bow. Very cool sight to see chrz
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Re: LBI Weekend Report-Thresher Shark
« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2008, 07:59:29 PM »
congrats on the fluke,,,,

too bad u didntg have a camera ready,, that would have been a cool pic of the shark
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Re: LBI Weekend Report-Thresher Shark
« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2008, 08:00:17 PM »
wow.. sounds exciting.
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Re: LBI Weekend Report-Thresher Shark
« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2008, 08:24:01 PM »
"You're gonna need a bigger boat!" ;D
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Re: LBI Weekend Report-Thresher Shark
« Reply #6 on: June 22, 2008, 08:30:17 PM »
Nicr report, a great sight to see.


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Re: LBI Weekend Report-Thresher Shark
« Reply #7 on: June 22, 2008, 08:36:59 PM »
Yea baby!!.  I bet that was a site..  Something I would love to see  t^
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Re: LBI Weekend Report-Thresher Shark
« Reply #8 on: June 22, 2008, 08:41:31 PM »
Nice report Capt.Dave, I had a friend of mine call me yesterday on fishes out of Barnegate inlet who got spooled by a jumping Thresher  t^
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Re: LBI Weekend Report-Thresher Shark
« Reply #9 on: June 22, 2008, 08:50:27 PM »
Nice to see I bet
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Re: LBI Weekend Report-Thresher Shark
« Reply #10 on: June 23, 2008, 12:46:44 AM »
very cool
« Last Edit: June 23, 2008, 12:53:05 AM by seanr8w »
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Re: LBI Weekend Report-Thresher Shark
« Reply #11 on: June 23, 2008, 05:26:32 AM »
That's cool
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Re: LBI Weekend Report-Thresher Shark
« Reply #12 on: June 23, 2008, 08:43:32 AM »
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