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Tyler · Site Admin Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 12865

Ralph and his group had been emailing me about conditions and he filed this report:
Tyler,

We hit the beach at 12:00pm, and drove down to mile marker 42, we were keeping our eyes open for breakers only within the first but, we found a spot that had an area where there was only the first sandbar and nothing past it. The water was blue and clear, had seaweed to deal with. We set up camp and then the first storm hit and it started to pour, with wind gust up to 30 miles per hour at times, we thought at one point our tent was going to be blown away. The rain and wind lasted all day and we could only pan fish and use surf rods only. We could not even think about taking large baits out. The surf turned rough and this lasted the rest of the day into the night. We kept getting rain showers through the night. We decided to turn in early and move to a new location, seaweed was too bad. Next morning we broke camp and headed to the end of Big Shell, (Port Mansfield Jetty). We arrived two hours later to a perfect location, No seaweed what so ever, we set up camp, and stared catching bait fish. At 4:00pm we took three big rods out, two of them baited with Cow Nose Stingrays and the other with a large whiting that we caught. My Daughter and her boyfriend were catching trout on top waters and we hooked up on some jackfish. I had one fish spool me out, never knew what it was, but there was no stopping it. It hit a TOP DOG lure, I had 300 yards of 30# test and I could not even turn the fish. All 300 yards of 30# test went with the fish, as soon as I had no line left on my reel all I could do was hang on to the rod and POW, it was gone.

We cooked steaks around 7:00pm and had a great meal, great camp location and waited for the big rods to go off. Around 10:30pm, my 80W Penn International started screaming. I'm talking SCREAMING!!! I ran this bait out about the same length of the end of the jetty using a Cow Nose Stingray with two large hooks. When I arrived to my reel, the fish was still peeling off line. I put my harness on and strapped the real to myself. Line was still being taken out and I counted to 6/1,000 in my mind and pushed the lever on the reel to full lock and ran back setting the hook to the fish. As soon as I set that hook that fish yanked me back towards the surf and I had to back off the drag. I decided to let my friend William bring in the fish, since he has never caught a large shark before. We fought the fish for 45 minutes and landed a 7'-6" Tiger Shark!!

I have plenty of pictures as well as video of the whole trip, I will make sure to put this on your website with pictures and video. We are going back to the Mansfield land cut next month.

I truly want to thank you for your helpful information you provided, Keep up the great work on your website.

Here is a picture of the shark attached. I'm the one on the right in the photo.

Best,

Ralph Candelario

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gulftrout · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 20 Aug 2007 Posts: 1629

"TIGER!"

hickroots07 · Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 12:01 pm Post subject:

VERY nice! Thanks for the report!
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BamaRed54 · Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 12:33 pm Post subject:

That's GRRRRRRRREAT!!!!! Surf seems to be hearing up! Go away weed!!!!
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jagarcia10 · Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 1:29 pm Post subject:

Awesome! Congrats on the tiger!

kayakattack · Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 1:32 pm Post subject:

Good to see a tiger again, awesome catch!
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gotmullet? · Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 2:22 pm Post subject:

Nice job

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pinsfish · Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 4:59 pm Post subject:

Cant imagine. Never seen one. Sweet success. Great that you allowed someone to experience the fight. Good fer ya!
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Big John · Full Grown Flour Bluffian Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 2647

Nice catch! I have been spooled a few times on PINS. Makes you wonder what is swimming around out there. Great tiger shark!

justletmein · Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 12:02 am Post subject:

That's an awesome fish. Smile

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raydfishr · Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 12:22 pm Post subject:

congrats on a nice tiger , ain't nothing like
seeing line being stripped off a reel & then ...
ping! its all gone ! Crying or Very sad

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