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Post by tonyroma on Aug 22, 2023 19:59:48 GMT -5
Was it bye catch OMG?
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Post by One Man Gang on Aug 22, 2023 20:36:21 GMT -5
Yes... You could control it to some degree by not fishing in "sharky" water. Some times you got very unlucky and you might end up hauling 700 blue dogs a day. They were a pain in the ass to deal with and the little ones were the worst. They would mess your gear up and wear the crew out, for $peanuts. Other times you'd never see them. Then there were times you'd just have to pick through them some as they might be mixed in with swordfish at places in your gear.
Fyi, oceanic white tips brought $35/lb. Blue dogs $6-20. Lower lobe of a makos tail was $50., I think salmon shark fins brought good money too but don't recall exactly. The fins had to be dried and cut right though for top $.
I'd make $10k a month sometimes back in the early 90s. Old Chinese fella over in Kewalo Basin always paid top dollar. He would see me coming and we would have a few drinks, shoot the shit and start working on a price. Rumor was he had a $million in his office at all times for his deals, and nobody fucked around with him. He was very well connected. We were pretty good acquaintances. I like to think he respected me because I negotiated in good faith. I was firm but never flim flammed him over petty shit. A lot of guys were scared shitless of him though too and if he could get away with paying you $2-3/lb he would! I think he liked me because I always gave fish away to the locals around the dock. That kind of treatment went farther than money did in more places than you could imagine and the only info that traveled faster than the blossoming internet at the time was the word on the streets!
We used some of the money off the top to buy hooks, meat hooks, gaff hooks, and gaff making supplies. So some of it went back into the boat. That was my way of helping offset everyone's tackle cost (owner) for the trip. When my boss tried to make me pay him a share out of our shark fin money one time I told him to get fucked. That the day I had to give that money to anyone else besides my crew is the day we start cutting those nasty pains in the ass off at the boat. That would cost the boat $1.25 a hook and money for gaffs and meat hooks every month. We used to buy 2000 hooks a month so that could add up to a lot of money... Naturally I got my way and kept my crews money for them.
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Post by louis357mag on Aug 22, 2023 21:06:06 GMT -5
In my opinion Mako. Secret to shark is if you are planning on them for the table is as soon as you boat them smack in the head with something heavy a nd gut them asap and ice immediately.
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Post by lemaymiami on Aug 23, 2023 4:46:40 GMT -5
I've got friends who love blacktips on the grill... The secret I'm told is to run a "pickle barrel" the way I did back in the eighties when I held a commercial hook and line ticket... Sharks spoil so quickly that simply placing them on ice isn't enough. A pickle barrel is an ice and brine solution (one bucket of saltwater for every 20lbs of ice). That solution flash freezes them and then the're suitable for the table. Of course most recreational anglers don't have a cooler big enough since they're supposed to remain intact until landed at the dock... I'd gut them, gill them, leaving head on before they went in the pickle barrel - but only the smaller ones to fit in an 80qt chest. That "pickle barrel" is the key, though... Most that have bad experiences with shark meat have allowed it to spoil before they ever came back to the dock...
For anyone considering shark for the table - make a point of checking out FWC's rules for sharks (both on land and on the water...) - they're very specific and most of the minimum sizes are simply too big for the cooler...
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Post by Alex from GA on Sept 2, 2023 16:25:28 GMT -5
I've eaten thresher shark when I lived in CA and it's delicious. Steaked and grilled with lemon.
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Post by olmucky on Sept 18, 2023 15:07:26 GMT -5
Smaller blacktip is really good.
Mako is too
I wasn’t fond of thresher the 2x I tried it
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Post by madm002 on Sept 21, 2023 16:37:06 GMT -5
I used to fin sharks by the tens of thousands for good, cash money. It felt even better knowing that we helped the Orientals (and some of you detracting, naysayer ladyboys who will feel the need to excoriate me over it) enjoy their culinary desires. The level of grammatical excelence on this forum never ceases to amaze me.
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Post by tankered on Sept 22, 2023 8:10:27 GMT -5
^^^^^ Comedy gold right here.
Pot meet kettle.
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Post by chunkster on Sept 24, 2023 7:13:41 GMT -5
I’m also one for mako and thresher. Mako is considered a delicacy, have in moderation. The bigger the fish, the more mercury it stores. It’s a different diet than a Longfin Albacore An apex predator to the bluefin tuna. Do you know anyone that got bitten by a Yellowfin?
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