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I've wade fished with Leighton and Brian on Cape Cod where they had warning signs up for Great Whites but didn't see one.
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Its not how you pick the booger..
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I've been brushed by sharks while fishing in the surf. Don't know what kind or how large, but I knew the feeling of their skin against mine. I’ve had this happen one time, many years ago. I wasn’t fishing, just out in the surf throwing football with the family. Damn creepy feeling. I’ve seen quite a few sharks in the surf over the years. Only one really spooked me.
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About 1955 a 3rd grade classmate's dad got bit on the upper thigh surf fishing on Boca Chica. Bled to death before he could get to hospital.
Shark was probably going after stringer of fish.
Boca Chica is where Musk launches his rockets
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About 1955 a 3rd grade classmate's dad got bit on the upper thigh surf fishing on Boca Chica. Bled to death before he could get to hospital.
Shark was probably going after stringer of fish.
Boca Chica is where Musk launches his rockets Had a buddy get bit there surfing back in the 90s, probably a bull.
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Old 300
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Its not how you pick the booger..
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Some trips to the Cheaspeake Bay Bridge Tunnel all you catch are sharks. Damned Atlantic Sharpnose sharks. They are thick in the Chesapeake Bay in the summer.
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Some trips to the Cheaspeake Bay Bridge Tunnel all you catch are sharks. Damned Atlantic Sharpnose sharks. They are thick in the Chesapeake Bay in the summer. good eating though.
God bless Texas-----------------------
Old 300
I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull
Its not how you pick the booger..
but where you put it !!
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I was close to a mud shark once. Does that count?
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Two guys I knew in Biloxi, Rob & Ray, were from the Seattle area and had come to Biloxi to work in the casinos.
They were surfing down in NW Oregon with three other friends at dusk. Ray had a long board and was catching the last wave he was going to surf for the evening. As he started paddling with his arms he hit something, turned his head and was face to face with a giant great white shark. He said it shocked him so bad he was paralyzed with fear, everything went into slow motion.
The long-board he was on seemed to stay right up against the shark as he picked up speed sliding down the wave. His hand gripping the board was pressing against the side of the sharks head. He could feel the pectoral fin under the board and his fingers hanging onto the board were touching the fin too. He said it slid along beside him face to face for about 50 yards then disappeared.
He rode the wave as far as possible and could hear a couple of the friends yelling their heads off, they had seen the whole encounter with the shark.
Ray said he was glad they saw the shark because no-one would have believed his story about how big it was.
He never surfed on the west coast again.
Rob didn't see anything.
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PRESIDENT TRUMP 2024/2028 !!!!!!!!!!
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The people wringing their hands over Trump's rhetoric don't know what time it is in America.
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A friend of my ex-wife's brother was bit by a great white while surfing. How close is that in degrees of Bacon?
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Two guys I knew in Biloxi, Rob & Ray, were from the Seattle area and had come to Biloxi to work in the casinos.
They were surfing down in NW Oregon with three other friends at dusk. Ray had a long board and was catching about the last wave he was going to surf for the evening. As he started paddling with his arms he hit something, turned his head and was face to face with a giant great white shark. He said it shocked him so bad he was paralyzed with fear, everything went into slow motion.
The long-board he was on seemed to stay right up against the shark as he picked up speed sliding down the wave. His hand gripping the board was pressing against the side of the sharks head. He could feel the pectoral fin under the board and his fingers hanging onto the board were touching the fin too. He said it slid along beside him face to face for about 50 yards then disappeared.
He rode the wave as far as possible and could hear a couple of the friends yelling their heads off, they had seen the whole encounter with the shark.
Ray said he was glad they saw the shark because no-one would have believed his story about how big it was.
He never surfed on the west coast again.
Rob didn't see anything. My younger sister surfs at canon beach and has had The creeps once or twice.
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Was on a charter boat, TX coast. Another person landed a big hammerhead. I felt its weird skin.
Make Gitmo Great Again!!
Who gave the order to stop counting votes in the swing states on the night of November 3/4, 2020?
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Trump Won!, Sandmann Won!, Rittenhouse Won!, Suck it Liberal Fuuktards.
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Caught and ate sharks in the Chesapeake.
F'n dovish have ruined trips to Cape Cod. Blue sharks also.
Worst sea encounter was a blue crab as a kid.
They told me I'd get pinched, they were wrong.
It got right beside the fingernail, I jerked and it cut the corner of my finger off. Tried to act like nothing happened, the blood dripping gave me away.
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
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Few if any shark varieties I’ve not encountered in times gone by. Biggest White was about 20’, hammerheads in the 10-12’ range, bulls, whitetip and black. They respond favorably when poked in the nose with a spear. Makos are the ones that give me pause. Rowdy they are.
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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I went on a shark cage dive in south africa in 2008. I saw about 6 different great whites and one that bit the cage was a 13 footer. Many of my pictures came out pretty blurry because I think I was shaking and the boat and cage was rocking.
I kind of regret doing it because I've had a fear of the ocean ever since. When I lived in Hawaii in 97 I was always in the water. Now I rarely go in very far.
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Just a few lemon sharks wading the flats for bonefish.
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I don't think I've ever seen a live Great White. It's 100 miles out from here to the continental shelf and that's where they like to hang.
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My old man lives in Fort Bragg,CA .... about 100 mi north of San Francisco .... he and my brother are both big into Abalone diving.... well used to be anyways,been closed last few years. He has seen a 10-12 footer one time...says he wasn't worried, compared it to being in a pasture with a angus bull.... just kept his distance and it cruised on by about 30 ft away. Crazy fugger.... I tried it when I was a kid and got fugged with by a seal....knocked my mask off... if god intended us to be in the water he woulda gave us gills lol.
Fort Bragg is kind of at the northern most part of their territory but they have had a few attacks and even a death in the last few years up there....no thanks.
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