We got our bull sharks! Yes, they were embarrassingly small, but a friend tipped us off that there were large numbers of them in the St Sebastian River right now, and we couldn't pass up the opportunity. On Saturday we went over to a local park to fish the river. As soon as we got there it started downpouring.
I had one bait in the water, but the lighting got so bad that we had to run back to the car to wait out the storm. I could barely see my rod, and fortunately it didn't look like anything was happening. Then, right as the rain stopped, I saw the rod start bouncing, and I ran across the park to grab it.
Sure enough, it was a juvenile bull shark.
There she is.
We sent out two more baits, and Ally got the next one.
She was equally happy.
ID was easy on these guy. Short blunt snout, stocky body, and they were caught in freshwater (or at least brackish very close to freshwater).
Yes, we still need to go catch big ones.
