7th shark attack reported on North Carolina coast

[Team Sergeant]

Originally Posted by Guymullins

I wonder whether you have a similar natural boost to shark attacks in the USA?

No, here we just blame it on global warming and Bush......

[Flagg]

Next year will be the 100th anniversary of the Jersey Shore shark attacks from 1916:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey...ttacks_of_1916

The shark attacks that summer knocked WWI out of the front page headlines.

I think I recall reading it was an inspiration for Ptere Benchley's "Jaws".

I've done a fair bit of shark fishing(mostly catch and release) offshore NY/NJ as a deckhand.

In my experience, Blue sharks are like relatively harmless rats, Sand Tigers look scary but really aren't, the odd Thresher shark can be found feeding on the smaller stuff(their tails are dangerous!), Makos are awesome but far more often far offshore(although some, including a huge record holder on light tackle or flyrod, have been caught in quite close in the US Southeast).

We had a minimum 11 foot Mako take the back 1/3 off of a near 200 pound Blue Fin Tuna(2nd biggest in the tournament, but DQ'd due to mutilation)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DND717lnFLQ

Great Whites/White Pointers(only ever saw one far offshore on a dead whale). Rotting dead whale is like shark crack.

Did a trip or two to help stock the Camden Aquarium.

The big brains there said there are a few inshore "pupping grounds" for Great Whites/White Pointers.

I'd also suspect bull sharks(although I've never caught/released any) as they tend to like the warmer/shallower/coastal waters.

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Maybe shark attacks are an indicator of a healthy shark population?

Or maybe it's just more "lotto tickets" entering the water resulting in a few more tickets getting punched.

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I'd reckon the Carolinas have a much richer density of sharks than further north where I spent most of my time, warm enough to even get Hammerheads moving north up the Gulf Sream for a bit each year, rare to see them further north where I fished or to see them for very long.

[Team Sergeant]

Originally Posted by Flagg

Next year will be the 100th anniversary of the Jersey Shore shark attacks from 1916:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey...ttacks_of_1916

The shark attacks that summer knocked WWI out of the front page headlines.

I think I recall reading it was an inspiration for Ptere Benchley's "Jaws".

Big difference between a few shark attacks and a "serial" shark killer..... I'm sure the FBI has that sharks psychological profile in its archives.....

[XJWoody]

Originally Posted by Flagg

...The big brains there said there are a few inshore "pupping grounds" for Great Whites/White Pointers...

According to the satellite pings from ocearch.org, Katharine (a 2300# 14' white) has visited the Pamlico Sound, and is currently not too far off the coast of Cape Hatteras. Genie (a similar sized white) has also visited the Sound, back in April. She sent her most recent ping May 28th off Cape Lookout. Mary Lee is a bigger white, 3400# and 16', but she hasn't been in the sound for a couple years. She likes the SE US coast too...

Try not to look tasty

[Badger52]

Originally Posted by XJWoody

According to the satellite pings from ocearch.org, Katharine (a 2300# 14' white) has visited the Pamlico Sound, and is currently not too far off the coast of Cape Hatteras. Genie (a similar sized white) has also visited the Sound, back in April. She sent her most recent ping May 28th off Cape Lookout. Mary Lee is a bigger white, 3400# and 16', but she hasn't been in the sound for a couple years. She likes the SE US coast too...

Try not to look tasty

Interesting to look at some of those sites that track their pings interactively on a map w/depth. Being really deep is a ho-hum. Seeing that it came back from the deep Atlantic up into an inlet to spend the day shopping in 30' of water could get your attention.


I recall going down to Ensenada with my Dad as a youngster for yellow-tail and whatever. Most stuck in the memory was my 1/2 fish I got back from a shark and the Mex deck-hand up in the top of the boat with an M1 looking for targets. (Did manage to boat a tuna bigger than me. Some fish, we ate good.)

Shark Week! Wonder if they'll cover the use of UAVs over the SoCal hand-wringing out on the left coast with the white birthing ground.

[Sdiver]

Originally Posted by Guymullins

I wonder whether you have a similar natural boost to shark attacks in the USA?

Originally Posted by Team Sergeant

No, here we just blame it on global warming and Bush......

Once again, T.S. is spot on .....