educated sharks?

stuart · 2014-07-13T01:32:10Z

Hi my name is stuart and i live in england. I come over to sanibel each year and fish for the large sharks off the beach close to the sundial condos, i have had success and fails with bulls, lemons blacktips and nurse sharks. I catch mullet at night with a cast net in a small gully and have found that a chunk gets more takes than a whole one. I have not used a kayak yet but will do this year, all my sharks have been caught by throwing my bait in by hand, many times i have seen massive lemons in so close there backs are right out of the water,i actually had the biggest one i've hooked 2 feet from waters edge 450 yards of line gone in no time i locked down and pulled the hook. Penn 14/0 this year loaded with 150lb grand slam mono right through i have been cut off a few times by the sand bars,there are two before the beach slops off gently. My main question is that i see sharks in the shallows turn and go right up to my bait agian and again only to circle then go off. Am i right in saying some of these sharks are resident and seem to be educated with fishing wire, I have scaled down to a short wire trace about 150lb the solid thin wire [forgot name] and 500lb mono leader i tried small 6/0 hooks but these got straightened . These sharks are all in very close so come into contact with fishing gear all the time, maybe a kayaked bait would put me in reach of sharks that don't see fishing gear.? I am 100 per cent sure i would catch a lot more but they can sense the metal, has any one tried using very strong mono with circle hooks, and lifting into the fish straight away? I would gladly accept any advice, some nights i have seen half a dozen different sharks and only get one pick up,and some nights i see nothing and catch nothing.

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