Beach 8/17 topwater shark action
 

so loaded up the yak this mornin and ran down to my favorite strech of beach. i got there about 6.. light north wind water looked so-so. i started out chunkin a chart skitter walk. took four in the first hour.. kinda slow.. then nothing for the next hour or so.. then the bait activity started back up and i picked up two more 2lb trout like this one..


here's the weird part.. i chunked the skitterwalk to a large pile of very nervous bait. it landed on the outside edge of the bait ball, as i worked it into the center of the bait.. all the bait erupted and either a shark or a porpoise:confused: actually came up and inhaled my bait! i expected a strike but not this! it happened so fast and i was so stunned, i didnt get a good look.. my rod loaded and instantly cut off like a hot razor. whatever it was, it was large and in charge!(1/2 the size of my yak)

now, ive fished the beach for quite a while now and seen porpoises and sharks and even had them attack fish as i reel them in.. but i have never seen one attack and eat a topwater bait.. anyone else ever seen or heard of this..?

Jack Crevelle for sure! Happened to us last summer. The jacks showed up and were crushing our topwaters. We caught 3 or 4 of them. One of my buddies was throwing a jig. Threw it out, got spooled, respooled, threw it out again, and got spooled again.

COOL!

Nice catch btw!

ive had a blacktip hit my top water the other day in GI

thanks.. yeah i wish it was jackss.. but this beast had a big dorsal fin

I doubt it was a porpoise. I've never seen or heard of anyone ever catching a porpoise on anything, not even hooking one and losing it.

if it broke off right away sounds like a shark. Pox said a couple of sharks blew up on his topwaters by venice the other day. If it was half the size of the yak that would be a huge jack

yeah im thinkin big shark.. i was just shocked lol

there was a pod of 3 or 4 porpoises really close the beach.. herding bait... really gettin after it.. i watched them for about 10 minutes.. thats why i thought .... maybe?

yep exactly what im thinkin.. id hate to see that jack!! :*****:

i caught a porpoise on a catch 2000 once...it spooled me of course..

i caught a couple of porpoises on trout before..:pissed: took about 50yds of line in about 2 seconds

That is a nice spec. What did it weigh? I was looking at the CCA score board last night and there are a lot of holes in it still. Especially in the Kayak division. I did not see any fish in the kayak division yet.

Nice fish! And yes i've had sharks hit topwaters plenty times. I've even had them devour my popping cork before. Anyway sounds like you had a good time out there. I'm ready to get on some fish!

Nice job bro. Gonna hit the lake today or tomorrow after work. U down.

Nice bro,I love dat topwater action. Tie a steel leader next time and find out what it is. :D

I did that ONCE when I lived in FL. My back yard was the Intercoastal. Fish would bust out by the hundreds with some bright, big fish in chase. I threw a couple of silver spoons out there and wham, 50 yds of drag and then cut line. So, I got wise...I got some 2' steel leaders and waited. The next time this eruption occurred, I was ready! Spoon, cast, WHAM!...Fish on! 20 minutes of fighting later, up comes about a 3' baracuda! Needless to say, he got to keep the spoon and leader! I wanted NO part of those teeth!:shaking:

Keep in mind, I grew up in Oklahoma so, I didn't have any idea as to what I was getting in to. Quick lesson learned that day!:*****:

Mackeral will cut a line quick, fast and in a hurry too.
Mono or Fluro ain't good leader material for them either.

thanks. it was only 2 1/4lb on the boga.. im in the cca .. just hadnt checked the leaderboard.. guess i should huh? lol :shaking: i led our division over here last year for about a month with a 5.. didnt figure i was even close..

sure thing bud.. jus shoot me a text when ur gettin ready.. i gota make a run to hackberry to call on my accounts .. but after that it should b all good.

lol thanks... ya next time.. steel leader, 250# braid on an international.. hook up n go skiing in my yak behind that beast! :*****:

i know that's right!! they's some toothy critters!

i looked at it the other day. i dont think there was one trout registered in the kayak division.

that figures.. well i guess i'll weigh my biggest dink next time lol

Kayak West division has plenty of trout weighed in. 6.91 is leading

yep you're right. i saw southwest doesnt have any registered. West is only one with 3 places.

Kayak – West
The winner will receive a Hobie kayak package. Presented by Hobie and The Backpacker.
1.
Kevin Natali
6.92 Lbs
Cajun Fast Mart
2.
Wayne Lobb
5.91 Lbs
Cajun Fast Mart
3.
Kevin Natali
5.44 lbs
Cajun Fast Mart

yeah, now those numbers look right for over here
i gotta get out there more an get to work on them hoss trout! :work:
the dinks i'm catchin aint gonna cut it.. but they're fun!

I won the kayak division in Grand Isle last year with a 3 lb trout. that is where you need to go.

we fished the mouth of south pass 2 weeks ago and had mulitple blowups and split second hook ups from sharks hittin our tw. one of em crushed the bait all i had to reel in was about 1" of a super spook and the eye where you tie the string! a few others were punctured . one of the blow ups i saw at least 5 ft of shark and it wasnt evn 1/2 out the water, it was pretty cool to watch at first then it just sucked watching your 8 dollar tw get ruined prolly lost around 60$ in tw baits

yeah that one on the beach was no baby.. it had some size. cool to know it wasnt a totally freak occurrence.. i think id hafta save that lil bit of spook u got back if it was me.. just for the story :smokin:

man i wish i did save it now, but at the time i was so freakin pissed they kept breaking hard baits it cut it off and threw it in the water! i KNOW they had some hog trout there i just couldnt fish it right because of all the sharks , water clarity was there, nice sized bait was there, moving water, slight over cast for throwin that TW :shaking: and a **** load of bag arse sharks . next time im riggin a rod with cut bait heavy line and leader and a big circle hook and just let that thing drag behind the boat when i get it to the top im snaggin him on the top of the head with a super spook and cuttin the line so he has to swim around with some head jewlery!:rotfl:

it is very very rare to get them to mistakingly eat a artificial, prob a jack or big shark. We fowl hooked one several years ago while trolling and could not stop him with a 80 wide.

no i had a trout on my line and he ate the whole thing and took off it has happened to me more than once. in a school of trout with porpoises and they go for the ones on your line

i need a yak as much wade and beach fish

i caught a trout last week on the beach and reeled in just a head ..... didn't see what it was but pretty sure it was a black tip or gray reef shark b/c i have caught both on the beach....... oh and a buddy of mine caught a black tip on a skitter-walk last summer and several hardheads