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DaveK
03-24-2003, 03:48 PM
I saw this article at the "Game and Fish" web site and thought you guys might enjoy it. Makes the idea of landing a BFT on a yak not so far fetched. www.gameandfishmag.com/saltwater/gf_aa016102a/
SamRiley
03-24-2003, 04:16 PM
Ohhh Shaunnnnnnn :)

Anyone know if a Mako has ever been landed from a yak?
FLYRODER
03-24-2003, 04:43 PM
Actually yes a Mako Shark has been landed with a yak along with 100+lb Sailfish.
SamRiley
03-24-2003, 04:44 PM
FLYRODER-
Got any details or links on that Mako?
capemike88
03-24-2003, 07:27 PM
Thank you DaveK,

See it can be done.....
bluewatr
03-24-2003, 09:05 PM
I believe that that article was posted last year also! Awesome... the man has big balls!
Ray
03-25-2003, 10:19 AM
Sam

The number of kayakers landed by Makos is slightly higher than the reverse!!!

Ray
CO FLy
03-25-2003, 01:07 PM
I saw a guy catch an 8 foot black tip from a long board in Hawaii. I was quite impressed to say the least. :eek:
ruge13
03-25-2003, 01:23 PM
Yep I saw it. It's only a matter of time untill they show...
Wes
03-25-2003, 02:56 PM
How 'zactly would you be delivering the coup de grace?
capemike88
03-25-2003, 06:35 PM
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capemike88
03-25-2003, 06:36 PM
Might wanna bring along the desert eagal just in case, that .50 cal really leaves an exit hole.

mike
FLYRODER
03-25-2003, 07:51 PM
Sam I'll try to find the link. I saw it last year. I'll post it when I find it.
ruge13
03-25-2003, 08:21 PM
Notice this guy used a boat to bring the shark back? In a lot of similar type articles most guys don;t use the katyak the whole time. H may have padled all the way back , but he did it without the shark. If you don't use the kayak to do all the work, start to finish, is it the same? I think if you are going to target bigger less traditionally caught fish, you should have to do ALL the work with the kayak. Any thoughts?
Wes
03-26-2003, 12:21 AM
Hmmm, you'd be some doing some serious chumming towing that sucker back. Or you could stow it in the hatches. How much ice you figure for a 172 lb shark?
Bob Parsons
03-26-2003, 08:25 AM
As I said to my kayak paddling shark catching girlfriend with a wooden leg.......Peg... this is not a topic for dragging your feet.
ruge13
03-26-2003, 10:11 AM
I agree, its a whole lot more work, but you don't climb to the top of a mountain to wait for a helicopter to come pick you up...
RJ
03-26-2003, 10:17 AM
Shaun,

I offically dub thee - Yak fishing's first purist! No worms for you! Sir Shaun!

JoeV, we have a yak Saint amoung us! All praise and glory to the first in our R-T bunch who lands a Mako!

Of course he will have to buy us all a round at that infamous Chatham beer joint to wet down the shark adventure properly!

Fish cheeks, anyone?

--125-3 --125-3
Wes
03-26-2003, 11:29 AM
Of course, you don't climb the mountain, throw an extra 172 lbs on yr back and ramble on home either.
joev
03-26-2003, 12:17 PM
A 50 pd bass would put me on the edge of my weight limit.No matter them guys like the Fish n Dive with a 550 pd weight limit.

RJ I will take Shauns worms they work quite well around here :)


JoeV
ruge13
03-26-2003, 01:44 PM
Thats a good point Wes, didn't look at it that way. I guess that was a bad example...
Never the less, that was still quite a fish...
rockfisherman
03-26-2003, 04:42 PM
OK, time for a reminder of this story and a little reality check. This unlucky captain was on a big boat.

http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/sports/2002/07/11fishingboatcapt.html