On friday afternoon, Pat and I decided to launch off the beach to intercept the passing bait schools on their way down south. We hit the sand around 3pm, paddled and paddled and paddled until we found one big bait pod that we stayed on til sunset. Every cast yielded a jack, bluefish, or shark. We had to lock the drags down as the spinner/blacktip sharks were so aggressive that they would chase the jacks to the kayak looking for an easy meal. Around 7pm the bait pod dispersed but I made one more cast before heading in and while my gotcha plug was sinking, a king swiped at it....zzZzZzz. First run almost spooled my little redfish reel but thanks to the pedals on my Hobie I was able to catch up and gain line back. It ended up being 47" total length.
The next day we set up with the 6/0, 9/0, and 12/0 at 1pm. I think we ran 12 baits out, all of which got hit. Ended up with 3 blacktips to 67", 1 spinner at 70", and 1 bull at 73.5"..all female except the bull. We had one blacktip that got chewed up around sunset. At night we had 2 big baits out, both got it, one of which never stopped running for over a minute on a locked drag but unfortunately the hook pulled. That ones gonnna haunt me for a while. The other bait yielded the 73.5" bull shark that was tagged by Mote Marine. Still awaiting some info from them on when/where they tagged him.
Man you're tearing em up!!!!Nice kingfish on the yak ,nice pic of the snook on the bait pod and very productive beach sharking.Congrats.Sorry you lost that reel screamer.
Within the last couple of weeks I've talked to a few west coast shark fisherman who have lost some big sharks because of pulled hooks after fighting them for a good while and I think that hammers with there relatively small mouths are the culprits because a Tiger or Bull will usually swallow the bait and get hooked solidly.One angler fought a shark an hour and half before the hook pulled .
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Man you're tearing em up!!!!Nice kingfish on the yak ,nice pic of the snook on the bait pod and very productive beach sharking.Congrats.Sorry you lost that reel screamer.
Within the last couple of weeks I've talked to a few west coast shark fisherman who have lost some big sharks because of pulled hooks after fighting them for a good while and I think that hammers with there relatively small mouths are the culprits because a Tiger or Bull will usually swallow the bait and get hooked solidly.One angler fought a shark an hour and half before the hook pulled .
Ya we narrowed it down to a big bull or hammer..it was running faster than any bull I've hook and like you said, hammers have smaller mouths so its harder to get a solid hookset. An hour and a half? Dang, that would just break my heart 
solid night of sharkin!!!
Good report, nice king!
were in the world are you fishing id love to go fishing with you all those runs in one day must be fun
That's one amazing report, the pic of the snook jumping out of the wave is hard to capture, and did that little chewed up shark have no tail?!?!
Just an average fisherman.
That's one amazing report, the pic of the snook jumping out of the wave is hard to capture, and did that little chewed up shark have no tail?!?!
Yah the tail was bit off and the nose was just barely hanging on. The whole shark was just covered with teeth marks and scrapings.
Great Report and sharp photos
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Awesome report man
NICE REPORT GUY, GREAT FISHING AND PICS. 
Nice, slaying multiple species..very cool man. Damn I need to get my azz back out there 