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Well now that you have found us we want to welcome you aboard. We want to assure you that you have found a website that truly is by shark fisherman for shark fisherman. We will work diligently to provide you with a website that you and all shark fisherman on a world wide level will be impressed with and proud of. We will stride to provide you with all the historical information unavailable on any other website as well as the up to date events in the world of shark fishing. Our primary goal is to make everyone that comes into this website to feel right at home in a community of fisherman who openly and willingly share there shark fishing experiences with the rest of the world. It is also our goal that this website be a family oriented, user friendly site that will enrich you with the knowledge needed to become a better shark fisherman. A place where you can share your fishing stories and know you will be respected and never made to feel like an outsider. We welcome all to participate without regards to level of experience, and we encourage all fisherman , shark fisherman or shark enthusiast to participate in this website and help us grow our base of active contributors. Our aim is to build a site that feels like a community where everyone knows each other on a first name basis: a community where we can share our adventures and allow the passion we feel for the sport of shark fishing to become contagious. We are preparing our “How To” section and we are excited about sharing with everyone what we have learned in the sport of shark fishing in over thirty years. We look forward to passing along to the novice shark fisherman as well as the experienced, techniques/methods that we have developed, and that have worked well for us. Skills we have learned not by reading a book but by time spent on beaches, bridges, piers or on boats over many, many years and by some of the most hardcore shark hunters anywhere. We are working hard to make this one of the best shark fishing websites in the world, one in which you will be proud to say you are a part of. We gladly pass along the knowledge we have gained from our experiments and our trial and errors that over the years have taught us what does, and does not work. Our articles on land-based and boat shark fishing will provide you with quality and precise information to help you become a more keen shark hunter. Our collection of shark fishing books and memorabilia is unsurpassed and will allow us share the exciting history of shark fishing with you. We welcome any and all suggestions so that we continuously improve and adapt in order to provide you with the top notch shark fishing website you expect; one that stays current and gives more then it ever expects in return. Thank you for taking the time to visit our website. Please tell your friends about us so that we may continue to grow and provide you with excellent shark fishing information and reports.. We hope you have enjoyed your time here with us and will visit us . SOUTH FLORIDA SHARK CLUB members landing and releasing a large Lemon shark on a Hollywood,Florida beach. Spending time with friends and the kids on Anglins pier.2008m some of the new members. Thanks Nick   Our 2009 SOUTH FLORIDA SHARK CLUB shirt. JamesFuqua (Jimbo) and Gus Ward shark fishing on the Indian key bridge catwalk.Circa 1972 The way the Florida keys bridges (with catwalks) looked back in the 1970's Rene de Dios with a South Beach pier caught bull shark.Circa 1976. A Long key bridge caught Mutton snapper with Luis Iglesias on the left and Daniel Fundora on the right. Jimbo (James Fuqua)fights a bull shark on the seven mile bridge.2008 Rene de Dios with a 1975 Miami Herald black and white picture of one of his many South Beach pier caught Hammerhead sharks. William Fundora (L) and Jimmy Fuqua (R) catching shark bait on the seven mile bridge.2008 Luis Iglesias,William Fundora and Rene de Dios with a 1984 South Beach pier caught hammerhead shark. Shark fishing has changed in many ways from the times when we first started. Our shark club has evolved with all the changes that sharks have been exposed to in the last 25 years. Shark populations have been diminished on a world wide scale by the over fishing of the commercial fishing fleets of the world. Our goal has shifted from just catching sharks, to catching and releasing and educating fisherman and the general public of the need to protect sharks to secure there survival. We no longer kill sharks indiscriminately like were the common practice in the shark fishing community in the past. We now are for the most part a catch and release minded club and would rather release a shark to fight another day unless it is going to be put on a grill or in a frying pan. Sharks need our protection and my goal as president of this shark club is to encourage every fisherman catching sharks to release them back to grow and perpetuate the species. The shark’s life cycle shows us that sharks take a long time to reach maturity before they are able to reproduce. In the United States laws have been implemented to protect sharks from over fishing but the Asiatic nations continue to decimate the species without regards for the future of these magnificent creatures. Thanks to the internet the sport of shark fishing is growing and will continue to grow. Here in Florida the state's population and the number of fisherman are also growing and that is inevitable. This sport deserves that we protect it and defend our right to fish for sharks in a responsible way.Again we will say it "it is our goal to protect sharks not not destroy them".We encourage catch and release of all sharks that are not going to be used for food or used for scientific research. We hope you enjoy this website as much as we enjoy sharing it with you.Thanks.....Will. The self proclaimed "Shark Hunter"Australian Vic Hislop (with a 22 ft great white) He was made famous in the 1990's on the Discovery channel by catching some of the worlds biggest great white sharks off of Queensland South Australia fishing from an 18 foot catamaran style boat . Walter Maxwell one of the all time greats in our sport with a big North Carolina Tiger shark. Rene de Dios with his 14 foot hammerhead shark caught on the old South Beach pier.Circa 1974 The 2008 BIG HAMMER CHALLENGE SHARK TOURNAMENT winners Team Black Bart from West Palm Beach Florida. Shark club president William Fundora with the 2008 Big Hammer Challenge prizes at Haulover Beach Park. The North Carolina lejend Walter Maxwell fighting a big Tiger shark with his left handed Penn Senator 16/0. Cameraman Jack Soler films for an upcoming episode of the TV fishing show "The Bite TV" and on the phone with Frank Mundus months before his death, the Paxton brothers (Sean and Brook) ,William Fundora, and Capt Kevin Pagan prepare for a May 2008 Boca Grande shark tournament on Florida's west coast. World renowned and Miami resident shark expert Doctor Gordon Hubbell displays a huge set of Great White shark jaws ,one of many from his large collection. The awards presentation of the Grande Bite First Annual Shark Tournament and cameraman Jack Soler films the event. Alfred Dean of Australia with one of his many Great White sharks caught during the 1960's.