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X-Mas Hammer Legendary story me and Rene de Dios the legend!

(@south-beach-seaweed)
Noble Member

It started crhistmas day as an 11 year old still 100 percent sold on the belief of santa,due to efforts of my parents lindy and seaweed miraculously placing all my presents under the tree every xmas in the middle of the night while i was sound asleep. so i awoke to my tree over flowing with presents that included my first bridge rod witch was an 11 foot gator matched with an old flea market 12/0 courtesy of Rene.my parents also got me a 6/0 and 4/0 both out fitted with bridge rods all due to my new found all out passion for bridge fishing over boats(thanks to trips with jd hammer). before that my shark pole was a 6ft boat rod on a 50tw international witch hammer made clear to my old man was a no no for the bridges. so fresh after opening my presents, Rene calls my mom and says linde im taking the kid for the weekend,and of course my cool as hell mom said sure Rene just make him wear his seat belt. so we were off to long key and right away upon unloading i got to my true passion at the time (snapper fishing) and right away i land my bridge record till today a 12,and 6lb mutton. but sure enough Rene started training me saying shannon your bullshiting forget the snappers kid,at start of outgoing tide your first priority has to be putting out your shark rod. sure enogh he gets hit first, catching a 5ft blacktip. back then sad as it sounds, we killed and sold all sharks. so rene gaffs the tipper under the bright full moon xmas night and me and him alone prepare to flip it. however out of nowere appears the biggest shark till this day ive seen in my life. from my eyes no exageration a 17 - 18 foot hammer grabbed the blacktip side ways and began to bash it against the pilling, very simmilar to a killer whale with a seal. i went in to shock and rene starts screaming omg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we will kill it with gaff and 14/0 combined!!!!
The hammer continued tearing the tipper up and within seconds snapped our line and huge gaff rope like sewing thread,swimming off with its prized blacktip meal. i will never forget thhis till i die and even though sounding like a fish story,i can promise that beast was 16 plus feet all the way out the water under a bright full moom xmas night.

SFSC -East Coast Events Coordinator

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Topic starter Posted : 11/15/2009 5:10 am
(@south-beach-seaweed)
Noble Member

Hints from this story!!!!!

till this day anywere i fish, whatever time it may be , i awke upon tide change and have my shark bait out before anything.

SFSC -East Coast Events Coordinator

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Topic starter Posted : 11/15/2009 5:23 am
(@fishergirl)
Prominent Member

Thanks for sharing your story, Shannon. That's what happens when you are taken fishing as a kid by two of the old pros who have true fishing fever. That particular strain is highly contagious & there is no cure. The only thing that eases the symptoms is to go fishing. This particular condition lasts a life time. :lol:

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Posted : 11/15/2009 6:19 am
(@meir-c)
Reputable Member

great story seaweed thats a crazy story thats probably the size of the shark you hooked at delray

gino #7419

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Posted : 11/15/2009 6:56 am
(@941sharker)
Honorable Member

killer storie!

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Go BIG or go home

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Posted : 11/15/2009 3:58 pm
(@meir-c)
Reputable Member

one more thing i forgot to mention shannon, the way you tell stories and write reports its like you have a gift for it you have a great way of wording a story just like willy and a few others you had me on the edge of my seat.

gino #7419

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Posted : 11/15/2009 4:13 pm
(@bullshark51)
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THAT IS SURE A NICE STORY OF YOU AND YOURE MASTER THAT TAUGHD JOU ALL THA YOU KNOW LOVE IT KEEP IT UP :D :D

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Posted : 11/15/2009 4:35 pm
william
(@william)
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Great Story top to bottom,,,,,,,tears in my eyes and a chill running up my spine because for a moment as I read the story I felt like Rene was alive and I was right there alongside you guys and hearing Rene's distinct voice yelling with all the shark fishing fever/fury/passsion in the world in a style so truly unique and his.Rene I am sure shines down upon you and desires these monster hammerheads to go where ever you go kiddo!!!Thanks for sharing and for touching us all .Classic story copied it to Archives.

SOUTH FLORIDA SHARK CLUB -President SFSC-Founding Member est 1983 SFSC-Website Administrator BIG HAMMER SHARK TOURNAMENT -Founder Rene Memorial Sharkathon -Founder NMFS Shark Tagger

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Posted : 11/16/2009 8:31 am
(@picua)
Noble Member

Shannon that's a great story man and I believe every bit of it. There is no doubt that there are some MONSTERS out there. Great story man.....

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Posted : 11/16/2009 5:14 pm
(@e-polk)
Prominent Member

Stuff like that drives all of us on this site.

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Posted : 11/16/2009 7:37 pm