SHARK VIDEO - WHITBY ANGLING FESTIVAL
July 5th, 2008
Whitby fishing festival angler Adrian Stacey caught more than he bargained for during Fridays competition,
Both myself and Paul eddon had been let down by anglers not turning up on the morning so we decided to amalgamate both our depleted anglers into one trip on board trot on charters, (come on anglers it only takes a phone call?)
now for my part I came along as a pleasure angler, come helper, come photographer, and this was a opportunity for me to fish marks my boat could not practically reach in festival hours anyway, the weather was brilliant and the crack out there was just as good,
Paul decided to drop on a wreck a good way off and first drop I was in, then other rods were soon bending and cod after cod came flying in, I thought to myself this cannot be beaten great fishing great weather, little did I know an hour or so later I was about to whiteness the most spine tingling experience most sea anglers can only dream about,
just as I was pulling a decent cod up Paul shouted SHARK off port side, and a fabulous porbeagle came within two feet of my position wow what a sight, and that was that, now after a few more drifts Paul shouted wind em up lads, and I noticed one bloke at the Stern shouted for the gaff, and as I was already up I thought I would try video the landing, now Adrian as we now know him as seemed to be taking ages to lift what we thought was a big ling (as he was fishing a mackerel flapper on the bottom) and the fish took it on the bottom but when it surfaced both me and Paul never expected this awesome sight which still makes my skin tingle every time I watch the video, a wonderful porbeagle shark around 4 or 5 foot long and mabee around 150lb ? and for a brief moment I think everyone was in total shock, as the shark came closer to the boat and things settled down Paul tried to slide the gaff down the line to knock the hook out (as the whitby charter skippers adopt a chatch and relase progrm on sharks also no sharks to be wieghed in festival under our rules) which was unbelievably on the most outer edge of this porgys mouth, even an inch either side and this fish would have been lost on the first strike, and within a second it was off the hook and swam off safely you must take a look at the video, I am not the best cameraman in the world but under the circumstances hey its not every day I capture a shark on video,
these porgys are here in numbers I saw one last week around eight mile off and many other skippers have also witnessed recent sightings what next Whitby is well known for its great cod fishing but shark fishing? this for me at least proves Whitby is still one of the best and most interesting ports around the UK for sea angling
to view the video click this link http://uk.youtube.co...h?v=DCht8lahebo
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