The beast that smoked a 12/0 and a 14/0 -July 2009

Shannon,s story.

this happened to me last night on the beach with a bait i dropped close in, well before the reef to avoid the nurse sharks!!!! Since watching the second biggest battle of my life in renes hammer that stripped his 16/0 on south beach, i always knew that those close baits sitting right there in the shallow white sand always get picked up by king kong!!!!!
Renes boat sank on south beach before he reached the swim buoy and he left his bait there the night he hooked a similar monster!!!!

Like will said it, I honestly believe this Hammer was in the 1500 plus range!!!! a shark that would get one of those 50tw internationals,or tiagra reels that bucky and the other record holding boat fisherman use, and would have stripped them to deep water than laughed at them!!! this shark would have CRUSHED the record!!!!!! we would have been talking to news reporters as we speak!!!! A 12/0 packed to the tippy top with dacron, then a whole 14/0 without showing any signs of stopping? come on think about that for a second!!!! and dont forget we are talking a beach with no current to help this fish!!! This hammer, because im positive it was a hammer, would have eaten my 12 ft2 for bait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This was the world record god damnnnnnnnnnnnnn it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I waited all my life for her, and she proved that even with all the tie ins, the perfect tackle,the perfect open water beach, everything right, she just proved that she was one of those Ancient hammers that must die on her own will, deep at the oceans bottom, the size shark that man probably never gets to see!!!! 18 ft and well over 1500lbs, she fought off nets,long lines, fisherman,and other sharks for so so many years!!!!! Im hurting and pretty down right now, but thinking of this magnificent creature being so smart, strong , and massive that no man can stop her and she will one day die of old age on the bottom of the sea humbles me!!!!!!!!

Sincerely Shannon Bustamante (seaweed)