SHARK!!

A fellow kayaker saw a big salmon shark off WG last week.

Care to provide more details?  Is it something that was caught, or do salmon sharks breach the surface?

It was with michilutiiq and his wife Uuqutiiq last weekend. All I know is that it came up on her and she saw it swimming around on the surface for a little bit. 

I may keep a scarred up dipnetted personal use fish which I think you can use for bait and troll it around for a little bit.  Then when I get bored of that, I'll cut it up for halibut bait. 

The January fishing in K-Bay is an opportunity.  Closer to Seldovia than Homer but it can be done.  I've ben talking to Josh about setting it up next winter.  He runs the charters I think from January through March. 

Hey Guys - I was just chilling in my Kayak, baiting my halibut hook and waiting for the Hubby Michilutiiq to catch up. I was drifting in 30 ft of water and saw a movement out of the corner of my eye. I look over and within 5-6 feet of my Outback was a huge salmon shark. It clearly surfaced to see what I was. It took a look at me, swimming the length of my Kayak, and meandered on its way. Scared the cr#@ out of me! I was NOT expecting that. 

A fellow kayaker saw a big salmon shark off WG last week.

Care to provide more details?  Is it something that was caught, or do salmon sharks breach the surface?

It was with michilutiiq and his wife Uuqutiiq last weekend. All I know is that it came up on her and she saw it swimming around on the surface for a little bit. 

I may keep a scarred up dipnetted personal use fish which I think you can use for bait and troll it around for a little bit.  Then when I get bored of that, I'll cut it up for halibut bait. 

The January fishing in K-Bay is an opportunity.  Closer to Seldovia than Homer but it can be done.  I've ben talking to Josh about setting it up next winter.  He runs the charters I think from January through March. 

Hey Guys - I was just chilling in my Kayak, baiting my halibut hook and waiting for the Hubby Michilutiiq to catch up. I was drifting in 30 ft of water and saw a movement out of the corner of my eye. I look over and within 5-6 feet of my Outback was a huge salmon shark. It clearly surfaced to see what I was. It took a look at me, swimming the length of my Kayak, and meandered on its way. Scared the cr#@ out of me! I was NOT expecting that.

Dayum!  That would be enough reason for me to do some serious laundry afterwards...

There used to be this video on youtube of me just chilling on the water after we landed the salmon sharks.  I'm sitting there dangling my feet and behind me the salmon shark are busting and breaching the surface while chasing pink salmon.  The person videoing the whole thing nervously says something like "Allen better get his feet out of the water".  At one point we even had the pinks hiding under our boats.  It occurred to us later that we were probably not in a good situation as all it would have taken was one shark busting on the pinks below us for the situation to turn ugly.  But at the time, it was just a cool feeling sitting out there taking the whole scene in.

-Allen

All I know is,  I've never seen Sarah that freaked out in the 12 years we've been together. I wish I'd have seen it. I want to fish for  sharks so bad... But maybe I should bring in a halibut over 10 lbs first!