Marine Life

Dunno if it's already been posted, but I came across this interesting little chart:

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks/statistics/species2.htm

The Landlord has a commanding lead!

I love the "provoked" catagory!

Who the sam hill "provokes" a great white?

Darwin award?

I love the "proved" catagory!

Who the sam hill "provokes" a great white?

Darwin award?

My guess would be fisherman that get bit trying to land the shark would feature highly in that category.  Then there's the researchers that go out in their cages and chain-mail that occasionally get bit.  There's probably also some people that provoke an attack without ever knowing they were doing so.

I wouldn't be surprised if swimming/surfing/kayaking near marine mammals is considered "provoked"

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I love the "proved" catagory!

Who the sam hill "provokes" a great white?

Darwin award?

+1. Hahaha!


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... Who the sam hill "provokes" a great white? ...

Who the hell is Sam Hill?    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Hill_%28euphemism%29

USE THIS TABLE WITH CAUTION! Positive identification of attacking sharks is very difficult since victims rarely make adequate observations of the attacker WHILE THEIR BEING EATEN!!

I'd worry about the sea lions more than anything else. There's a ton of them where we fish, they're ornery, and we've had run ins with them. I've been splashed and barked at my sea lions and chased out of the water big a big bull stellar. Scary buggers.

My guess would be fisherman that get bit trying to land the shark would feature highly in that category.

Seems there should be a sub category for yak fisherman and a sub sub category for those idjuts that go for the lap dance.



http://www.northwestkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=6346.0

My guess would be fisherman that get bit trying to land the shark would feature highly in that category.

Seems there should be a sub category for yak fisherman and a sub sub category for those idjuts that go for the lap dance.



http://www.northwestkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=6346.0

My goal is to land a salmon shark up in AK from a kayak.  Don't know if that makes me stupid, crazy or both.  That I'm not sure probably means that it's both.  A trip back east will need to include some yak fishing.  If I could get into some makos or other requiem sharks that would be a bonus.  Last fish I think I caught back east were some dogfish sharks surf casting in Jersey.  Got no love from the blue fish or strippers.

Sorry AK guys. As if Orcas and Stellars werent enough

SHARK: Experts believe 20-footer stole huge bite from Yakutat man's fish.
SHANNON HAUGLAND
The Daily Sentinel (Sitka)
Published: September 11, 2004
SITKA -- Yakutat charter boat skipper Mark Sappington may be the only Alaskan able to say he shared his dinner with a great white shark.
Sappington had a boatload of charter clients on the 30-foot Manifest Destiny 14 miles offshore from Yakutat when what he believes was a great white took a bite -- 18 inches wide -- out of a halibut being reeled in by one of his six clients.
Sappington related the story as he enjoyed a meal of tacos made from the part of the halibut that the shark didn't get Monday.
"One of the guys on board hooked onto a halibut and was fighting it," Sappington said. "He got it part way to the surface, then it took off in a direction. It was obvious it wasn't going on its own power."
As the client continued to reel in the line, Sappington could see a big bite had been taken out of the middle of the 60pound halibut. "We yanked it out before the shark could get it," he said.
After taking the bite, the shark -- possibly lured by a halibut on another client's line -- circled the boat three times and latched its teeth onto the swim step of the aluminum boat for a few seconds. Sappington estimated its length at 20 feet.
"It was definitely a great white," said Sappington, who grew up in southern California and has encountered sharks of all types. He noted the shark's "huge size," black eyes and nose shape.
The shark circled around the boat about five more times before taking off.
The experience left the charter clients breathless. "Everyone was saying repeatedly, 'once in a lifetime,' " Sappington said.
But it may have been the second time in 24 hours for Sappington himself to encounter the shark in the same area.
"The really neat thing about this, is that the day before we had a fish taken in the same place," he said. In that case, a charter client was reeling in a fish when the 400-pound-test cable leader was suddenly pulled out at tremendous speed and stripped off the reel.
"I'm sure it was the same one," said Sappington. "It was in the same place at the same time of day."
Sappington recalled a similar close encounter in the same area eight years ago, when a shark came up and ate a tangle.
The latest sighting is the fourth unconfirmed report this summer of a great white shark in Southeast Alaska, and there have been confirmed reports in previous years, said Tory O'Connell, groundfish project leader for the state Department of Fish and Game in Sitka.
"Yes, great white sharks have been caught and seen in these waters," she said. "It seems to occur in these warm-water years, usually in late summer to fall, and often in areas with salmon."
O'Connell said she looked at photos of Sappington's halibut and discussed the bite marks with Gregor Cailliet, a shark expert at the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in Moss Landing, Calif.
"Without seeing a photo of the shark or a tooth, we can't say for certain," O'Connell said. "But I feel comfortable saying, based on the bite width and talking with Gregor Cailliet, the shark could have been six meters (about 20 feet) or greater, in which case it seems reasonable to think it's a great white shark."
Distributed by The Associated Press.

Speaking of sharks; Going thru the local regs here, and in three spots on saltwater fishing, it mentions that you need  federal permit to catch sharks.

Anyone ever hear of that? Will try to pull up a link and post it later when i get out from behind the firewall.

Two years years ago I was fishing at PC and had a guy paddle up on a longboard and pull a few rockfish up with a rod he had strapped to his board.  He wasn't there long, but there is no way you'd catch me doing that.  We're not any safer in the kayaks, really, but there is still no way.