Great Bay ..Brown Sharking last night

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Originally Posted by bulletbob

Nice report.. , those brown [actually they are Sandbars]sharks have been in Great Bay in good numbers for decades,, as long as I can remember.. Every year during fluke season, lots of fluke fishermen get spooled, and have no idea what spooled them.. Typically down there its those brown sharks, but I imagine there are some big ass rays there as well.. For whatever reason, few people target them, but there are a lot of them, they are there all summer, and they can go 7 feet and 100 pounds.. Best thing is, they can be caught in calm bay water from a little skiff or even a kayak. That fishery is relatively unknown, and always has been which I don't understand... I bet there are a lot of them in the shallower parts of raritan bay, but it would be a night fishery only... bob

I tripped over this fishery 35 years ago, getting spooled while Weakfishing with a hunk of Shedder Crab. Back then, some of the old salts hanging around Chestnut Neck Marina said the Brown sharks turn on when the crabs shed. The story went, they would come in on an outgoing tide to scoop up the shedders. I trailer down and fish for them very five years or so, the damn greenheads drive me crazy. I have never saw another boat on the same holes that have produced for me.