Seems like it's always too windy to kayak here, so I went back to the beach for more surf sharks. Last time 3 of us landed 5 finetooths, but they must have moved on, because this time we caught 2 blacktips and 1 blacknose. Bait was ladyfish and guaguanche (the small barracuda) from the kayak session. Incoming tide got the bites, and once it neared high tide the bite died off.
Friday before I put out a shark bait I got this small snook on a Daiwa Salt Pro. It reminded me of corvina fishing in the surf.
Sent out a chunk of ladyfish, and it got picked up pretty quickly.
Short while later I had my lifer blacktip shark.
My sand hand hooked up as well.
It wasn't a shark though.
On Saturday I was the sand hand, and again we hooked up quickly on a chunk of ladyfish.
Another blacktip, quite a bit bigger than mine!
We ran out of ladyfish, so I switched to the guaguanche. It took a long time before it finally got picked up.
Had to ID this one back at home. We knew it wasn't a finetooth or blacktip. It keyed out to blacknose, and several of my more knowledgeable friends agreed.
So far we've been fishing relatively featureless beaches, but we're talking about trying close to the inlet next time. It's going to be more of a combat fishing situation, i.e. there will be anglers on either side of us. I think the shark species will be different though. More bull sharks, nurse sharks, and bonnetheads, species that like to go in and out of the inlet.