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Shouldn't that be a bigger yak?? and speaking of jaws heres another link of a more amusing kind www.angryalien.com have fun

heres a little video for you to watch and enjoy at your leisure www.youtube.com hope you like it qualitys not to hot but you can get the drift of whats going on.

Not sure if they have been caught off western france but they are well documented in the med and have to get in there some how(i seem to remember something about the med being a possible breeding/birthing region perhaps this is why although less in number as a a whole than other regions a larger percentage of the shark attacks in the med than normal are fatal and the victim is consumed possibly being down to pregnent females not feeding in the last weeks until they have given birth as some fish do. although i stand to be corrected on this fact as shark biology is just a hobby of mine not a profession.)I personally would love to see white sharks off our coastline (i cannot see a reason why there shouldn't be, water temperatures are high enough and there are enough marine mammels around our coast to sustain them in fact it is only their scarcity due to over fishing in the 70's JAWS hayday by so called "sports fishermen" that i can see for their not being here) but i would fear for the knee jerk response to a qualified siteing as these sharks are not protected around the british coast and no doubt people fearing for the state of the tourist trade would drive them back to extinction in our waters.In saying this if there are white sharks around our coastline its going to make kayak fishing a lot more interesting.

BBC1 19:00 Sunday 30th July Great Whites in Great Britain, might make some interesting watching for any of you guys not out fishing at the time. In a similar vein a business man has just spent app £10000 chartering a boat for 2 weeks off cornwall to look for great white sharks he took along a south african expert on white sharks to help him, from what i've read they were unsuccessful but one thing they did find worried them and that was the lack of porbeagle sharks present in the waters at the time.Perhaps we should be looking at doing more to protect this magnificent fish as well as other more popular species.

I'll be beach bound with fishy finger also waiting on the delivery of a prowler elite, hopefully in mid-july.

I was only passing on the information about sharks "going to sleep" when turned upside down i wasn't actually suggesting that this be attempted on a yak! covering their eyes seems to be the best method of calming them, i would suggest that except for the most experienced yak fisherman cutting the trace or unhooking them without trying to get them onto the yak is the safest if not the most macho solution. As for blue sharks i was also only suggesting that anyone thinking of stepping up a notch and attempting to tackle porbeagle may be wise to try something inbetween first, as i noted before the current rod caught rcord for a porbeagle is 507lbs while the blue a slightly smaller 218lbs so your less likely to hook into a monster blue than perhaps a monster porbeagle. Safety after all should be of first concern and remember as opposed to the yanks you are unlikely to have the safety blanket of having a firearm on board to dispatch a large quarry should anything go wrong.

Turning a shark on its back also has the same effect as covering their eyes, it puts them into a state of tonic immobilty (similar to a hypnotic trance) works on crocs and alligators too apparently. I'm not sure of the ethics of targeting small juvenile porgys in the proposed 80 -120lb class, i mean we try to avoid targeting undersize fish of other species surely sharks should be accorded the same respect & before anyone goes off at the deep end yes i do realise that the intention is to release the animal and not to keep it but even so it seems to me that if you don,t have the capability of dealing with a full grown adult then maybe you should think twice about going after juveniles just in case you do hook into an adult.If you want to try a slight ly larger fish than tope why not try targeting blue sharks most adults are within the 80 - 150lb bracket although once again their size does range up to approx 260lb Still if you do decide to go after porbeagles good luck and tight lines to you.

Heres a little bit of information for any of you guys who are thinking of taking on a porbeagle shark. The porbeagle shark (lamna nasus) is one of the sharks in the family known as the mackeral sharks, this family includes the great white and the mako shark amongst others. The porbeagle is warm blooded in that it can maintain its blood temperature at a point several degrees higher than its surrounding water this allows its muscles to work with much greater efficiency and allows for great bursts of speed, (interestingly one of the few other fish capable of this is also the great white shark). although they are not known for jumping clear of the water when hooked there apparently have been cases of them breaching when chasing prey items(once again similar to the white shark).The current IGFA record stands at 507lbs caught off Scotland (although these sharks may grow much larger and weights up to 900lbs have and lengths of around 13 ft are considered about maximum) and there have been 2 recorded unprovoked attacks (both on divers,both nonfatal) on humans. It may make you think twice when your quarry may be almost as long as your yak and weigh three times what you do, to me thats one hell of a step up from a tope no matter how large. On a slightly different plane, as the weather warms up we should be getting the usual occasional sitings of a great white in our waters.Although these is no recorded evidence that these sharks do inhabit the waters around Britain it may interest you to know that the usual excuse of the water being too cold for them may not hold true in that the winter water temperatures in the mediterranean where they are definitely present can be several degrees lower than the summer temperatures of the waters off the southern coast of Britain. There has also been put forward the idea that white sharks may be following the increasingly large number of basking sharks that are appearing off our coasts and feeding upon these. Anyone fancy a pop at one of them! white shark fishing on a kayak the ultimate adrenalin sport!

Not sure about anti-coagulants but all sharks both small and large should be handled with care as their bites carry a very high risk of secondary infections (they don't brush their teeth very often ). its wise to also remember that even small sharks such as tope can bite with a force ranging into the many hundreds of pounds per square inch and a sixty pound pi**ed off tope could easily remove a large part of a stray hand or foot. So in the words of a hill street blues sergeant "lets be careful out there".

Good luck and tight lines to everybody for what may be an epic weekend, but watch out for the spider crabs they're out in force at the moment i managed to catch 3 3pounders last weekend from the beach at tywyn and they seem to have a liking for mackeral bait.

Thanks for the advice guys, me and a mate are off to our local supplier to checkout the prowler 13's and also the tarpon 140's in the next couple of weeks. just come back from beach session in tywyn this weekend we managed to land 4 bass, 1 codling, about 17 doggies, a couple of whiting, a couple of turbot and a small eyed ray. the sea was choppy on the sat and sunday but monday was like a mill pond.

Freezing dog fish before or after skinning them helps get rid of the ammonia & they're pretty good in curries and not bad fishcake material, me and a mate found this out after catching 34 in one stint . needless to say we didn't keep all of them. my mate also recommends skinning them while they're still part frozen by just running a knife under the skin although i havent tried this method myself. Be aware that supermarkets and chip shops selling "rock salmon" are generally selling wolf fish not dog fish.

Hi everyone, i'm looking for some advice on which kayak to buy. i'm 6 ft tall and weigh in at about 210-220lbs & i intend to fish mainly around the tywyn, dysni, aberdyfi area(as i already do a lot of beachcasting here) to start with but with possible trips elsewhere. mostly seafishing but maybe some freshwater as well. from what i can tell most people seem to favour prowler 13's and 15's but ive seen some positve reviews of malibu x-factors , pro-explorers , ocean drifters and perception caster 12.5's but these have mainly been on american sites so i'm unsure of their relevence to the uk scene. any advice or guidance would be helpful as i have no kayaking experience and to be honest the designs all look very similar to me.