Just viewed this again thanks for posting surfstix it was cool.
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Just viewed this again thanks for posting surfstix it was cool.
These guys took the video of a great white in June.
30 miles off Atlantic City. There are some big monsters not too far out there in the summer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC6wiLR2FO4
there are 4 GW off the eastern coast of the US. You can see where they are by going to this link http://sharks-ocearch.verite.com/
Have to be careful out there you never know when your number is up.
Bull shark takes bite out of New Jersey teen vacationing in Florida
Christian Mercurio, of Randolph, N.J., was badly chomped by a bull shark while fishing in waist-deep water in Sanibel, Fla.
Comments (9) By Ginger Adams Otis / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Tuesday, August 13, 2013, 6:03 PM
WNBC
Christian Mercurio, a New Jersey teenager, says he survived a shark attack while vacationing with his family in Florida.
A New Jersey teen on a fishing trip in Florida wound up as the catch of the day for a hungry shark.
Christian Mercurio, of Randolph, N.J., got his leg and foot badly chomped by a 6-to-8-foot bull shark last week while fishing in waist-deep swells in Sanibel, Fla.
RELATED: BOY SURVIVES SHARK ATTACK DURING SURFING COMPETITION “I felt like my feet were crushed by cement,” the teen told WNBC-TV.
He had no warning of the menace lurking in the warm shallow waters.
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http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopo.../148788774.jpg Amanda Cotton/Getty Images/iStockphoto
The bull shark that attacked Christian Mercurio was 6 feet to 8 feet.
Christian, 17, said he was bitten twice — and the big fish seemed to get more aggressive as he fought to get away.
“(It bit) once when I was fishing, and the second time when I was trying to run in,” he told WNBC.
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On the beach, his mother Lisa Mercurio thought he was joking when she heard him yelling for help.
“My mom was like, ‘Don’t yell shark, you’ll start a panic,’” Christian said.
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http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopo...k14n-2-web.jpg WNBC
Luckily, 17-year-old's Christian Mercurio mother is a nurse who quickly wrapped the bite wounds he suffered from a bull shark in Florida.
Luckily, his mom is a registered nurse who sprang into action when she saw the vicious, serrated bite marks up and down his right leg and across his left foot.
She got his legs elevated and wrapped his wounds with beach towels donated by other swimmers.
The bull shark probably mistook Christian for a fish in the cloudy water, authorities said.
It missed hitting any major arteries, but left deep wounds in Christian’s ankles and legs.
Back home in Randolph, Christian recovered from his ordeal by watching “Shark Week” on the Discovery Channel.
“I spent the week having nightmares,” his mom said, describing the shark attack as “surreal.”
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...#ixzz2bxIiwPBv
I am glad I read this AFTER I waded out into chest deep water to fish at IBSP!
A bull shark was what swam up matawan creek and killed those kids. I think it was in the 1920's or 30's.
I was trying to reply to this yesterday but the web kept locking up on me. I was going to say- you must have seen me, lol, cause I do this. my ritual is to put the bait on then rinse my hands in the surf and then wipe the water (and whatever else) off on my waders. maybe not as bad as doing it directly but I am sure there is some residual. I am very finicky about my rods- anyone who uses my stuff MUST rinse their hands after they bait up- I don't want my rod handles smelling like rotten fish. I am sure it drives my friends crazy- but hey if they don't like it buy your own stuff.
Last night I had to wade through thigh high water to get to the outer sandbar to cast to "fishable" water and all I could think about was this story. I kept looking in the water all around me as I waded out and basically ran back in, lol!
Bull sharks are nasty there is no rhyme or reason for when they attack. I have read they are one of the most unpredictable sharks out there. Not saying you can predict a shark attack, but from the info out there it seems the bulls will strike at anything that remotely appears to be edible while other sharks are more cautious at first. Saw some of this stuff on shark week too.
Dude that would have been a trip if you were out there at night and a ray bumped against you and you thought it was a shark! I know I would crap my pants if that happened!:scared:
That kid is definitely lucky it wasn't worse. And he has some cool scars to impress the chicks with, lol.
Hey that was in Florida but you never know. Even though it has been an off year for sharks in NJ you never know it's not too late for a bull shark to show up.
Thought I would post a thread to honor the end of the tourist season. Lead in with the movie that showed up on TV last year.
Thread title Jersey shore shark attacks. The movie is so bad it's cool!
Post your favorite clips or lamest lines. Anything about NJ shark attacks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiAsI6_sjkQ
lol say it in your best guido voice - "I hate shaaaaaaaaks!!!!!!"
^^^^^^Amen, at the same time it is stupid and hilarious. Paul Sorvino, Paul Sirico, Jack Scalia, Fatone, what a battle of guidos against preppies. All of the bennies who come down to Seaside for the season are in this movie.
Interesting documentary on NJ shark attacks including the attack in matawan in July 1916.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiUQHeavz8s&list=PLLGSeyV2Fu1gc16p-e8S9hU1hg_M2x5kz
today
Sharks spotted in Avalon, Margate
http://nj1015.com/sharks-spotted-in-avalon-margate/
Aah you joisey folks are sissies. Come on up to MA we have great whites all over.;)
We had 2 in just the last 2 weeks, in 15' of water.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/201....html#comments
Sharks are everywhere.
does anyone listen to 101.5 during the day? right now they are having a discussion about sharks in New Jersey beaches.
One lady came on and explained how the lifeguards pulled a 3 foot shark with teeth out of the surf and everyone was scared. and animal control officer had to come and take the shark away because of the fear. The Sharks are right beyond the surf line all summer.
Shark PSA July 2015-
Just wanted to put out a little PSA for those who fish NNJ beaches and bays.....
Within the last 5 days I have gotten 3 separate reports of sharks with teeth in the SH Bay/Raritan Bay area.....
One from the guys who fish the Navy pier at night...
Another from a kayaker friend of a member here who lost a fluke last minute in SH bay. A shark came up from the channel and ate half of it as he was about to swing it out of the water...
Tonight I got a call from some friends who were fishing in the bay and witness to a bunker blitz end of day...
They saw some larger bluefish, and what they described as a 6' long shark cruising the surface feeding on the bunker...
As jigfreak and others explained....there isn't that much danger from being attacked by these sharks....unless one of the following conditions is true....
1. The biggest danger is when they mistake you for something else....if you are splashing or making erratic movements in murky water....
2. It's probably a smart thing to avoid wading out too deep if there are a lot of bunker concentrated in your area...
3. Finally, I think the biggest risk is at night for those who might want to wade out too far in the bay....
4. Or anyone fishing bloody bait like bunker heads and wading too far out while doing it.
I may be the biggest violator of circumstance #3 above....:embarassed:
The few cases I've heard of folks getting "bumped" are usually when fishing at night and wading.....
Be that as it may.....
Some may not think of the NNJ and Monmouth/Middlesex beaches as holding sharks....
Someone told me the other day if you want to catch sharks, you had to go down to LBI to do it...:rolleyes:
I just wanted folks to be aware...that with all the bunker around...we probably now have a fair number of sharks in our RB/NY Bight area....
In most cases, they are probably brown or sandbar sharks...which historically have not been one of the most aggressive species.....
**But, you never know when there might be a small great white, or bull shark come to visit....
A. so please be careful....
B. and think before you wade out too deep at night......:learn:
Thanks for the heads up dark.
Believe it or not a 6 foot hammerhead was within sight of the Asbury boardwalk on Sunday.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/201...bury_park.html
No attacks but there were probably a lot of folks who would have needed to change their bathing suits if they saw how close it came. See the pic.
one thing to note is that some have reported seeing sharks due to the abundance of cow nose rays and their habit of swimming with their wingtips above the surface while feeding.
if you can't see the body either due to murky water or distance then you can easily make the mistake, especially when they are swimming one or more behind the other, which they often do:
http://cdn1.arkive.org/media/7B/7BA5...at-surface.jpg
That's a good point. I have read reports of schools of sharks in the rb. From what I have seen sharks don't usually swim in schools in the bay unless there is a bunker blitz or something like that. More likely they are rays. With that pic you posted it's easy to see how they could make that mistake.
someone posted a pic of those "sharks" in RB... and it was clear to someone who has seen them, that they were cownose rays, once you compare pics side by side.
we've made that mistake in the backbays here in dixie as well.
HOWEVER, what I didn't realize until recently is that when rays are mudding on flats, they are going after crabs/shrimp and other flat-dwelling things, and that other
more desirable predators have learned to follow nearby ;)
So true! Cmon fellas these are baby sharks you're talking about. Come up to the great state of Mass and try swimming a hundred yards from the sand. Check out the latest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60w6KdhSsvA
Backstory? well, yes... usually a story of learning something the hard way or finding out about missed opportunities :D I'm still learning the south backbay flats... seems to be a lifelong process.
BTW, we've had our share of sharks, and apparently some adult big sharks do come near to our backbays as every year some juvi true sharks are pulled out.
The beach sharking is dominated by sand tigers and what folks call "browns"... though I doubt many if any of the beach anglers know how to differentiate between shark species (including myself) as there are apparently several types that look like "brown" sharks, especially in the smaller sizes we get off the surf.
But by 'predators', what I've learned is that other fish are up on the flats and when the rays come in, they stir up the mud with their wings, in order to dislodge crabs, shrimp and worms... then they eat. Well, then dinner is served and other fish come in to help clean up... so a technique here is to find the mudding rays and then fish around them with bottom jigs, cut crab, etc trying to avoid the rays themselves, of course.
Just a PSA..
after receiving reports by RobM of brown sharks in the Barnegat Bay system...I started to wonder when they would show up in the Raritan Bay and
New York bight area.
After speaking to a few of the old-timers who were fishing the Navy Pier last night ...and didn't really catch a lot of blue fish ......they also had strange happenings.
3 complete bite-offs through steel leaders like they were butter.
This is highly unusual for them to be here this early in the season, (usually) they don't show up until July or August at the earliest.
So it (appears) at least a few of them may be here right now. That's the most reasonable explanation for what happened to them last night.
That...or threshers.
If you are wading out there, like I and some of the others do, please be very careful you don't carry anything with you that has a scent.... or carry any bait with you at all.
Little early for browns. Could be threshers though. Jmo.What ds said be careful wading. Even carrying gulp might not be good.
Seals maybe?
It's a sea monster LOL
No its a baby whale.
I appreciate the comments and humor, people.
I've done some more thinking about this and I have trouble convincing myself that these could be brown sharks. It just doesn't fit for this time of year.
Additionally, a good friend of mine was fishing the ocean in Monmouth County yesterday with a conventional rod and reel. He's caught a bunch of big fish to his credit, and knows what he's doing.
He called complaining because he was on his way to a tackle shop to get respooled.. "something big just spooled him" and then bit through his leader.
If any of you have any thoughts on the most likely creatures to be doing that this time of year, they would be appreciated. Thanks
It sounds a little far-fetched, but there is a great white shark Nursery off The Jersey coast. Great whites can handle colder water than browns.
http://www.app.com/story/news/local/...y-nj/30324181/
shark reported in jetty country a few days ago.
http://www.nj.com/monmouth/index.ssf...ore_beach.html
I think they would still be around because of all the bunkers. My .02
could have been cow nose rays, who have a nice habit of keeping their wings up in "shark like" position.
Although one would think life guards would know the difference, without pics it's hard to tell.
that said, there are a ton of brown and sand tiger sharks hanging in the surf zone that no one knows about.
it's the people-biting buggahs that would scare ya... and I can't recall a surfer who got bit that said they said
they saw fins swimming around prior. when a shark wants to hunt, it doesn't let it's prey know it's around.