It took three months, but the skunk streak is broken. After many trips it took a break in the weather, the start of a grunion run and a good sand hand to get my first shark of 2018. Mike and I did our usual Thursday night fishing and we arrived to find weedless conditions and no surf at all. The weather was a bit chilly, but I was OK with it. The critters were out again for me, but Mike seem to have stayed clear of them. I moved a little south to get away from the critters. I got a nice long cast which is rare for me.
Not more then a 3 minute soak, I got two long pull downs. As I got to my rod I set the hook and it felt good to feel some weight on the end of the line again. The shark took some long slow runs north and Mike saw it do a tail slap on the surface. As we pulled it out of the white water we could see it was a juvenile male 7gill shark.
It measured out to be 65" long caught with a chunk of Mac at high tide.
Mike had a couple of legit shark hits too, but the hook pulled twice. Hopefully, the sharks will be showing up more consistently as spring arrives. Too bad rain is forecasted for this weekend otherwise we would have hit the surf again during this grunion run.
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