It's a Saturday, sharks were caught the day before so we decide to go out and see what's happening.
On arrival of the spot, we noticed a monster... and sure enough it was the great Legend of Loch Nessie!
The sun began to set, we had already missed two sharks and caught two jacks... nothing special.
The night time bite was almost instant.
The shark burned us straight towards the beach so we tried to turn it away from those massive unforgiving rusted pilings holding the plastic pump house tubes.
Then it burned us up the jetty right towards the rocks, I was forced to run the rod to the beach as fast as possible on those treacherous rocks.
Then once again towards those pipes.
Gotta stop her now!
She's in.
The usual massive tipper.
What a shark
The release.
At an hour's past the great ship has passed, we leave at last.
Next stop, Fort Pierce. The tide wasn't favorable so we sat around with some other sharkers we met, a group of sharkers on this site from Polk county had already been fishing without much luck, Team Get Bit, Thanks for the ladyfish.
Also thanks for holding up this dangerous creature and new species on the penrod... that makes for 27 documented species with penfishingrods.com
They had to leave, but this super sharky land wasn't through with sfsc members. Ripinlipsoff came out with a friend and another guy that was grouper fishing earlier joined in the other tide for some sharks.
The snook fishing boats had passed so I decided to send my 12/0 out to the middle of the bay, the current was so fast 2 big dead ladyfish wouldn't sink even 200-300 yards out. So I left it and within 10-15 minutes I got a screaming hit, set up and was getting burned on heavy drag.
Now, for you bridge fishermen, here are some different positions to apply presure on a shark with a railing.
The old crouch down and lean back.
knee bend and rail grip for style points.
Reverse rail grip and side crouch.
and finally...
The double rail grip, no hands, full squat for a whopping 10 points up from all judges! 
This shark was relentless and pulled drag the entire fight and I could only gain about a foot of line with the greatest effort at a time. But we began to realize the shark wasn't fighting right, it didn't cut back and forth or run in at all, just constant line-breaking pressure for an hour straight.
Finally after an hour we saw it, a tail flopped out of the water and JD's predictions were precise. A foul hooked shark in the nasty current. A current much stronger than long key and maybe even channel two.
The rest of the fight was power winching a spinning propeller shark.
After 30 more minutes we got it straight up and down and saw that it was a bull shark over 6ft... you can see where it is hooked...
We cut off some of the tail leader and she swam off like nothing even happened, everything should rust out in due time.
Just an average fisherman.
Those Rail Position Shots Are Great When Reeling In A Fowl Hooked Shark, But HELL ON THE BACK ( GOT TO BE FLEXABLE ENOUGH ) 
Great Effort To Stick With It And Get Those Monsters In Mark 
Never Seems To Amaze Me On How That Area Always Produces Some Kind Of Beast 
You guys did what I wanted to do
This is an awesome report. It was like I was right there but I
didn't have to carry anything.
Man, what a awesome sunset shot.
I have a bad itch to go fishing right now from this report!
Mark, Tony Hawk would be jealous.
You should have done the "Christ Air."
You guys did what I wanted to do
This is an awesome report. It was like I was right there but I
didn't have to carry anything.Man, what a awesome sunset shot.
I have a bad itch to go fishing right now from this report!Mark, Tony Hawk would be jealous.
You should have done the "Christ Air."
Most Definitely Looks Like Mark Was Hanging A Mile High Good One Jimmy
MARK GREAT REPORT. GOOD TO FISH WITH YOU AGAIN LIKE AWAYS. YOU MADE IT HAPPEN AGAIN.
Great report Mark!! Like always!!
Great Pics! Big Blacktip and Nice Bull Mark.
Definite style points for the fight photos! Good stuff Mark, keep it up.