August 13, 2016 Report

Brian and his friend Mark and I fished last month and it was tough fishing for sharks. Brian loves sharks and wanted to catch one so that was our goal today. We had some pretty significant wind but were able to make our way to a bait spot that I like and caught some live bait before heading down to the flats. With the live well containing what we needed for the rest of the trip we headed down to the flats and begin shark fishing. Not 5 minutes after setting up one of the rods goes off and Brian is on to a nice lemon shark. Some blazing runs and head-shaking action later we have his first shark of the day, and nice 5 footer. Mark was next and after that spot not producing any more sharks we moved on. The next flat was full of sharks but they were being extremely picky and of the dozen-or-so sharks that moved in we hooked just one which Mark landed. Before the trip was over we fished one more spot and it was full of sharks again but once again they refused to eat. None of my usual tricks worked as the sharks were on edge and not very aggressive. As a side note there were permit everywhere on almost every flat we fished. But focusing on sharks I did not buy live crabs and I was agonizing all day long!

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