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great white on Sea Girt Reef
« on: August 01, 2008, 09:14:16 AM »
Has anyone heard of the 5-6' great white being caught on the Sea Girt Reef or possibly from a Monmouth County Beach?  There are a few notes about it on the some of the scuba boards.

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Re: great white on Sea Girt Reef
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2008, 10:27:39 AM »
The link below is to a photo posted on the Asbury Park Press website. The person posting it states that his son and friends caught and released it on last Thursday two miles off Manasquan. Belive it or not????

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Re: great white on Sea Girt Reef
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2008, 10:43:14 AM »
wow, but my question is.. How do you catch a great White unless you target it, you need the proper tackle for it.. and then who would be targeting it off the shore like that.  5hrug
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Re: great white on Sea Girt Reef
« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2008, 10:50:22 AM »
I heard about it from someone who read about it on another site.  You know, the he said, she said thing.  5hrug

Anyway, I haven't recorded the water temperature to be in the 70's until this past weekend. Up until then, the temps have been in the low to mid 60. The temps I recorded are from the Sea Girt Reef up to the Sandy Hook Reef. He had 76 degree water last Thursday? I find that hard to believe.

As far as targeting a shark and having the proper equipment on board for them at that close range. Last week I had two guys on my boat with me. We went out specifically to find bunker, snag some and try for shark as we had been bitten off by shark on previous trips while trying for striper and while trying for fluke. So, it is possibly they were set up for shark.

The APP posting said they had more pics. When you click on their photo gallery, I did not see any more pics of a shark, just pics of stripers, fluke, etc. Was it a ploy to get people to look at their other catches? Something to think about.

I guess you have to decide for yourself to believe it or not, as Captain Joe asked.  t^
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Re: great white on Sea Girt Reef
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2008, 01:07:03 PM »
It looks like those pics were posted by a reader, not by the APP Staff.  I tried to contact the person who posted the pics who says they have more, but they are not a registered user.  If the pic and catch are authentic, that looks like a small great white to me.  I am a bit skeptical too, but wouldn't be so surprised if it was true.  Stranger things have happened this summer!

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Re: great white on Sea Girt Reef
« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2008, 01:22:47 PM »
Quite a few years ago, some old salts and mates had told me there was always a rumor that the Sandy Hook/NY Bight area was the "nursery" for Great Whites as not much is known about where the lil ones reside. 5hrug
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Re: great white on Sea Girt Reef
« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2008, 01:42:55 PM »
you just don't accidentally catch a great white.  Same with most fish.. How many times do you get cut off and never see the fish.  If your fluke fishing with light gear, the odds are  you will never land the 18 lbs Fluke, or the shark, 50 lbs striper, etc.  You need the gear to handle those fish.  Most of those weakfish in the 15 lbs range are being caught by accident with striper fishing, same goes for those 18
+ lbs Fluke, they are being caught while targeting a larger species. If they caught a great white that close to shore,  you can be sure they were using very heavy gear and wire leader, which are 2 things you wouldn't be using to catch your average fluke, weak, striper, etc.
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Re: great white on Sea Girt Reef
« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2008, 02:14:25 PM »
Anything is possible, remember in 1918 two people were killed and one boy lost is leg in the Matawan Creek. This is now believed to have been the work of a Bull Shark. Around the same week several people were killed on the Atlantic City beach this is now believed to be the work of a Great White Shark. Stranger things have happened.


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Re: great white on Sea Girt Reef
« Reply #8 on: August 01, 2008, 02:20:48 PM »
I agree.. I am not saying that they aren't there, I know they are.. but to land one on a rod and reel is another story, unless you are targeting them specifically.
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Re: great white on Sea Girt Reef
« Reply #9 on: August 01, 2008, 03:52:20 PM »
The only thing I heard caught off the sea girt reef was a 14ft. 485lb. thresher shark. But a Great White?

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Re: great white on Sea Girt Reef
« Reply #11 on: August 20, 2008, 09:50:18 PM »
its in this weeks fisherman magazine.there is a pic there. they were fishing for sharks,gives boats name and all peoples involved. i am pretty sure the one shark we caught was a bull shark, it could be true.


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Re: great white on Sea Girt Reef
« Reply #13 on: August 21, 2008, 12:51:35 AM »
Is that the same shark as was posted in the APP??  Or is this a second shark??  Looks a little bigger!?!?

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Re: great white on Sea Girt Reef
« Reply #14 on: August 22, 2008, 02:42:15 PM »
so i guess its time to swap out the tourney mono line to a proline braided huh... woohoo... chrz
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Re: great white on Sea Girt Reef
« Reply #16 on: August 25, 2008, 03:38:13 PM »
nice pic

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Re: great white on Sea Girt Reef
« Reply #17 on: August 25, 2008, 10:01:32 PM »
wow, but my question is.. How do you catch a great White unless you target it, you need the proper tackle for it.. and then who would be targeting it off the shore like that.  5hrug

And, further, what type of person would be able to land one on what was probably light tackle, yet not identify it???
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Re: great white on Sea Girt Reef
« Reply #18 on: August 26, 2008, 07:53:18 PM »
its true the guy that caught the shark is from my marina. he has been shark fishing for several weeks ,catchin browns and such. he just happened too get lucky
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Re: great white on Sea Girt Reef
« Reply #19 on: August 26, 2008, 07:57:40 PM »
wow, but my question is.. How do you catch a great White unless you target it, you need the proper tackle for it.. and then who would be targeting it off the shore like that.  5hrug

And, further, what type of person would be able to land one on what was probably light tackle, yet not identify it???

I think this newest report is a second great white shark.  When the thread was started, it was a pic posted in the APP by a woman who needed help identifying a shark her son and friends supposedly caught by accident.  This second shark, the crew was setup for sharking and happened upon the Great White...which looks a little bit larger than the first pic posted in the APP.  So there has definitely been 1 Great White caught and released...the 2nd one is questionable and unsubstantiated still!!

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