Sharks In These Waters

[ron232]

Was Out On A Friends Boat Yesterday, Not A bad Day At All, Plenty of Macky About. Sometimes A Bit Difficult To Get Through Them To Reach The Bottom, A few whiting, codling, colaies and Pouting But nothing to write home about till we saw a fin in the water. So we up lined and went to investigate and got a suprise, when we realised it was a shark. Has anyone else seen it. This was about 2miles out, inbetween roker and seaham

[greggthe1]

Did you not try and chuck a bait out at it??

[cocomonkey19k]

lol can you imagine hooking into that with a 30lb class rod lol ive seen whales out there but never a shark lol

[ron232]

yes tried to catch it, but was having non of it. every time we got close to it, it did a dissapearing act and resurfaced somewhere else, also cant tell from the pic but was about 16 feet long

[Falcone]

There are quite a few in our waters, the shape of the dorsal looks like a basking but i could be wrong.

[ron232]

didnt look much like a basking shark to me, looked and moved to fast. seemed to be following the sprat around

[Falcone]

well at 16 ft i cant really think of much else it can be. Porbeagles wouldnt reach that size, and neither would a mako they come in slightly smaller at around 12 feet. Its not a thresher you can see that from the tail. Also 16ft is far too big for a blue. We do get 6 gill sharks in our waters but these live in the deeps and very seldom seen.

Hammerheads reach that size, but it has never been documented in our waters, that leaves either an smaller basking shark, or a great white and i cant see it being a white shark.

[BriH]

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Hammerheads reach that size, but it has never been documented in our waters, that leaves either an smaller basking shark, or a great white and i cant see it being a white shark.[/quote]

wish it was ,then there would be some fun

I dont boat fish ,but would certainly be encouraging the missus to swim early mornings and dusk

[brash1]

Looking at the dorsal and tail fin would say it was a basking shark.

[Falcone]

yes thats what i thought, wish it was awhite shark though, would love to see one ofthose round here

[ScottyJim]

Seen plenty basking sharks over the West of Scotland but they just idle along. Never seen one creating a wake so I don't think it's that. There have been a few porbeagles seen off the Upholder at Amble over the past couple of years. One guy had one on when he threw a mackerel bait over the side at it, and it took the bait. Was only on for a couple of minutes. I think its only going to be a matter of time before somebody gets lucky.

[Charlton]

definately a basking shark, seen quite afew myself over the Mull and when they want to move they can. Saw one off Blyth a few years ago and that was leaving a canny wake, dosnt need much movement to cause a wake in dead calm seas.

[seanyrooroo]

Nobody remember the one that was caught at seaham a few years back? Basking shark around 18ft if i remember rightly

[Falcone]

there was one 30 foot caught by tommy smith on the lady lydia

[Oblickta]

A similar pic taken in The Firth of Lorne, this was definatley a basking shark



This is the same shark a bit closer