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Sav99Sav99 Member Posts: 16,037 ✭✭✭
edited May 2009 in General Discussion
Guy here at work tells me that in Fla. when you are shark fishing, once a shark is brought onboard the boat, that the charter Capt. pulls out a .45 ACP and shoots the fish in the head while it is laying on the deck of the boat.

I said BS! From 2 foot away you will get a pass through the sharks head and put a hole in the boat. So let's hear it, what do you all have to say?
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  • NOSLEEPNOSLEEP Member Posts: 4,526
    edited November -1
    What's he smokin.
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  • Marc1301Marc1301 Member Posts: 31,895 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Absolute BS,.....from a Floridian![;)]
    "Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here." - William Shatner
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  • wsfiredudewsfiredude Member Posts: 7,769 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    He's full of schit as a Christmas turkey.
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  • AlpineAlpine Member Posts: 15,093 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well from my personal experience with swordfish, a .357 while they are still in the water is better, and yes they pass right through the fish.
    ?The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.?
    Margaret Thatcher

    "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
    Mark Twain
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  • Sig220_Ruger77Sig220_Ruger77 Member Posts: 12,748 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Never heard that one before.

    I do know that if you go halibut fishing in Alaska, they have a shotgun on board in case you hook into an extremely large halibut and it gets out of hand well you bringing him onboard.[:D]

    Jon
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  • dave40glockdave40glock Member Posts: 448 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    AND THAN HE WOKE UP.
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  • NOSLEEPNOSLEEP Member Posts: 4,526
    edited November -1
    In the Queen Charlotte's we just nip the gills with a knife after
    harpooning them. They bleed out real quick. No need to shoot them.
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  • penetraitorpenetraitor Member Posts: 3,870
    edited November -1
    Thats just a story he tells with his guns on board. Now all the guns are sitting on the bottom of the ocean with his boat.
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  • hehatemehehateme Member Posts: 724 ✭
    edited November -1
    Yeah... No. My brother in law charters, and we have caught many a shark, no guns on the boat.. Last time we caught sharks we just clubbed them death with an aluminum bat. I don't know if this is normal procedure, it's just what we do, and it works for us.. Same with Halibut, we went to Alaska for a family reunion (Father in law's wife's family) chartered a fishing trip and caught a lot of Halibut. The Capt. had a club on board and when we hauled one in he clubbed the hell out of it (dead) so it wouldn't slam around and break legs.
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  • Colt SuperColt Super Member Posts: 31,007 ✭
    edited November -1
    When I first got my boat in Florida, I caught a little shark. He tried to eat me.

    I put 3 into him from a 2" .38.

    Yup - 3 holes in the hull.

    Really pissed me off.

    Brand new boat.

    Doug
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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Jon0322
    I do know that if you go halibut fishing in Alaska, they have a shotgun on board in case you hook into an extremely large halibut and it gets out of hand well you bringing him onboard.[:D]
    Yup, the boat I went out on had one.
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  • stankempstankemp Member Posts: 509 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    He's jerkin your chain.
    Having fun with you.
    Stan
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  • mateomasfeomateomasfeo Member Posts: 27,143
    edited November -1
    Use caution, the shark might have ingested a magnesium bar and the gunshot would likely set it off and burn a hole through the bottom of the boat...
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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,446 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I say the Capt. is drinking Colt 45 [:)]
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  • The Ultimate InfidelThe Ultimate Infidel Member Posts: 2,327 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Total BS. They do however have short shark bats most boats carry.
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  • scottm21166scottm21166 Member Posts: 20,723
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Jon0322
    Never heard that one before.

    I do know that if you go halibut fishing in Alaska, they have a shotgun on board in case you hook into an extremely large halibut and it gets out of hand well you bringing him onboard.[:D]

    Jon

    We pull the fishes head up wth a gaff hook. put the muzzle od a single shot 12 ga right against their head and pull the trigger. it puts a 7/8 inch hole right thru. some guys are good at it some not a halibuts brain is the size of a pea if you miss they react poorly even when you hit it perfectly, they flop around for hours. I don't think they need their pea brain to live. Nancy Pelosi is like that
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  • bigtirebigtire Member Posts: 24,800
    edited November -1
    Yep, Fish gets shot before it is onboard the boat.
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  • OakieOakie Member Posts: 40,511 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I shark fish aleast once every two weeks and no way in hell am i gonna shoot a shark when its in my boat, unless I want to sink it for the insurance money[;)]
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  • Sav99Sav99 Member Posts: 16,037 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by stankemp
    He's jerkin your chain.
    Having fun with you.
    Stan


    No, actually he was quite serious and got mad when I asked him "man where do you come up with all this bull bababooey???"
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  • mango tangomango tango Member Posts: 3,833 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    If the fish is laying on a piece of 4" thick oak, maybe!
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  • dan kellydan kelly Member Posts: 9,799
    edited November -1
    shoot them? no! just put a sharp knife to the back of their head, when they feel it they will roll over and cut their own head off,then you do the same to the tail and put the body on ice...you got to cut them to get rid of the ammonia...it`s nasty to eat them if they`re full of ammonia[xx(]
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  • e8gme8gm Member Posts: 1,277 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Does the captain have to use a 45 or can he substitute a 9 mil or 38?
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  • 1fisher1fisher Member Posts: 1,012 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Did you ask him if his boat was made out of concrete like the ones made during the steel shortages of WWI and WWII?
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  • DONDALINGERDONDALINGER Member Posts: 1,541 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Remember in the movie "Perfect Storm" when George Clooney shot the shark with the shotgun? That was a badass boat. Awesome movie too.
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  • Joe DreesJoe Drees Member Posts: 2,953 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Heard the same story many time only with 22s and muskeys or northerns.
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  • WarbirdsWarbirds Member Posts: 16,904 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    First, noone intentionally goes shark fishing. They don't fight like other fish, they're kind of dumb and lazy once you've got em' on.
    (Resident of Pensacola, FL 2004-2007)
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  • Sav99Sav99 Member Posts: 16,037 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by e8gm
    Does the captain have to use a 45 or can he substitute a 9 mil or 38?


    Believe it or not, his exact words were that the law in Fla. mandates that it be a .45. Then repeated "it's the law" that's when I couldn't take it anymore and called bull poop. [:D]
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  • pietro75pietro75 Member Posts: 7,048 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by mateomasfeo


    Use caution, the shark might have ingested a magnesium bar and the gunshot would likely set it off and burn a hole through the bottom of the boat...




    You beat me to it! I bet they have alot of HOLY boats down there. Dang religious people anyway![:D]
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  • hehatemehehateme Member Posts: 724 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Dave W.
    First, noone intentionally goes shark fishing. They don't fight like other fish, they're kind of dumb and lazy once you've got em' on.
    (Resident of Pensacola, FL 2004-2007)


    I intentionally go shark fishing. I personally think it's pretty fun.
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