5'4" spinner 6/30/2012

[tiger101]

Gotta a phone call saying cooler is loaded with fresh bait, lets go! I said hell with it, loaded truck up & headed down to the spot. We set up & yaked our baits. It was a while till we got any action, very slow night but then we heard that sound that we all wait for. Rod started going off, we knew it wasn't big but it was something. Set hook and the fight was on all of 5 mins lol Fish basically beached itself. Easy catch, just reeling up the slack but the interesting part was it was a tagged shark from panama city and it was caught in pompano a long way from home i would say

***** shark was released *****

[PhishingPhanatic]

Damn, that is a long way that shark travelled! Nice work.

[tiger101]

I know i was surprised. thank you

[PhishingPhanatic]

UUmmm Ooohhh lemme swim over to Florida and say hello to the buds there

Nice

Umm, Panama City is in Florida too Ron

Still, that shark swam from the Panhandle, all the way down through the Keys, and up the coast.

[crashmister]

UUmmm Ooohhh lemme swim over to Florida and say hello to the buds there

Nice

Umm, Panama City is in Florida too Ron

Still, that shark swam from the Panhandle, all the way down through the Keys, and up the coast.

Road trip!

[permitchaser]

That was a long ride ,let me ask you?when you get the tag you have to call and report where you caught it? ,im just asking this never happen to me.

[PhishingPhanatic]

Yes, most tags have a number you call to report the fish. I caught a tagged snook when I was a kid in Sarasota, I called the number and they sent me a certificate. The snook was tagged about 3/4 mile away about 3 years before I caught it.

[permitchaser]

Yes, most tags have a number you call to report the fish. I caught a tagged snook when I was a kid in Sarasota, I called the number and they sent me a certificate. The snook was tagged about 3/4 mile away about 3 years before I caught it.

Thanks Rory ,thats cool so he stay on the same area ,or he was back who knows.

[tiger101]

tag had number and also said reward so will post tomorrow what we get lol never caught a shark with tag b4 it's all new to me

[fixed80]

Still, that shark swam from the Panhandle, all the way down through the Keys, and up the coast.

yeah... it could of did a short cut through the the Okeechobee canal out through Stuart and then down.

[InfinityFishingTeam]

Nice job. That is actually a blacktip not a spinner. Spinners are actually pretty rare.

[tiger101]

how can you tell it's a black tip had 10 ppl tell me it's a spinner (new to shark fishing)

[tiger101]

better pic is this a black tip or spinner and how can you tell ?

[cudaman]

Nice that you called the number. Congrats on the reward you will get what ever it is. One of the ways to tell is if the anal fin has a blacktip on it then it's a spinner. The other way is the location of the dorsal fin. See below link:

the blacktip does not usually have black tips on its anal fin. The similar-looking spinner shark (Carcharhinus brevipinna) does usually develop a black tip on its anal fin several months after birth.

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/gallery/d ... shark.html

[tiger101]

thanks for the link so would you call this a black tip?

[cudaman]

Yes, they loose their coloring but mainly keep the black tips under the fins, just not the anal fin. Some times you have to take a look at the teeth as they might be fine tooth sharks . Very similar sharks.

[gruntking]

i see buying that 80 was worth it

[tiger101]

lol caught that on friends 14/0 ever since i put the 80 on new custom rod i haven't got a hit very pissed lol

[InfinityFishingTeam]

People often think when they hook a blacktip and its starts jumping it's a spinner shark. Blacktips jump too! Blacktips don't jump as much and generally don't do spins like the spinner does. (Hence the name, Spinner Shark) The best way to identify the blacktip vs the spinner is the anal fin. If there is a black tip on it then it is a spinner, if there is not it is a blacktip. Also the position of the dorsal fin on the shark. This season I probably caught over 100 blacktips and only 1 spinner. Spinners are not as common as the tippers.