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mmmmm....General Gso's Blue Shark Chicken anyone??

fightingcouch

when taking a mako or other shark and using a harpoon get em in the gills they will die quicker. After harpooning/gaffing get a tail rope or two around its tail as soon as posible but safely.Once you have the tail rope on snug you want to bring the tail out of the water. Once the tail is out of the water you are in controll. You then want to drag him for a while and possibly jabits gills with a knife/gaff. Once he is in the boat put a five gallon bucket over its head just in case he still has some life in him.

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74Formula233

Do this.............

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74Formula233

Make his gills look like this, without going deep enough to hit the heart......only if you can safely get close enough!

You can also tape a knife to a broom-handle if necessary Use a crappy knife, for WHEN he throws a fit and snaps the blade off

NEVER assume they are dead.....the one showed above, we bled and towed for an hour, and he still was writhing back and forth when we stopped to check him! I have had them "safe to bring in" (never safe, really LOL) in shorter times, some longer times, the one above was stubborn.

WEAR THEM OUT when they are on the line. The one above got tail-wrapped during a spectacular aerial show.....so we brought him in quick, and had no choice but to button-hole him thru the side with a dart.....only place we had a shot before he realized the boat was there and would have gone ballistic.....THEN we still sunk the flyer thru his gills and tail-roped him.

Never can get enough ropes in a Mako LOL.

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Seaworm1

Curt, surprisingly it took a little less than ten minutes to get him to the boat, and he didnt jump at all but was on the surface nearly the entire time. I know that dragging the fish backwards will help suffocate it, but wouldnt that mean you would be leaving your slick to do it?

Seaworm1

Awesome advice formula, THANKS. I've got some video of tha mako, I'll see if I can fugure out how to get it on here

jmrecord

nice job!good info once i get tuna out of my system i want to go for shark!

FinReaper

I stick a mako just behing the gills, then get a gaff in him a foot or so behind that and then tail rope him tight and get his tail out of the water. THEN I start gaffing him in the gills again and again to bleed him while moving forward. I'm getting itchy just thinking about it!

I learned to NEVER stick or gaff a mako in the gills or forward of the gills on the first shot because that can make him bo nuts. I think I read that in Frank Mundus' book.

They certainly play dead and live longer than you think. Beware. Here's a true story. A close friend boated a small mako @ 120 lbs a few years back off Block Island, got him in the boat and all was well. They got back to Snug Harbor, got him up on the scale and that's when it got ugly. He went balistic while hanging from the scale, spinning ,snapping away, and splattering everyone nearby.

74Formula233

No offense, Fin, but gaffing a properly-played-out Mako in the gills will knock him for a loop, along with starting the immediate heavy blood loss. During the next few seconds, it is pretty easy to get a tail-rope on.

Do they come back to life again, yeh usually. But by then, you've got a few ropes on him and are dragging him backwards It is then that I try to pull them up closer with the tail out of the water, moving forward, and get some more jabs in the gills both sides.

I, too, used to think you should whack him in the aft end first, quite honestly, but a good shot in the gill area, either across them or from underneath right thru the top, whichever you have the opportunity to get, really does stun 'em. Same holds true for threshers.

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I love the taste of piss with my shark. Nice blue shark! Way to kill for no reason.
-nbs

And as for landing a mako have your leader guy hold the shark along side the boat once it is tired out. Use a flying gaff inserted into the gills and pull up like hell tie off the gaff line to the cleat of the boat and hold on! If you can stick it again on the otherside. get a tail rope on him and drag the shark backwards flooding its gills. Number one rule with makos when you think its dead its not. Ive had makos wake up a half an hour after laying on the deck and go after my friends boot so be careful. And dude try to lay of the blue sharks the excrete urine through there skin thats why there not awesome to eat you can do it but theres some big long soaking it in fresh water shite that no one has time to do just go back out fishing. anyways the chinese resterants have enogh shit on there menu try b12.


tight lines for all!

-Andrew