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When I was a kid my dad and I fished alot with Chief Fulcher in Morehead. We were at the Big Rock when a fricken huge shark pulled up beside his boat. I believe it was 54". That damn shark was as long as from the transom to the cabin. The old man emptied a carbine mag into its head and it just kinda shook it off and moved on.

In 72 or 73 my girlfriend at the time (from East Carolina) were shark fishing one night off of the Oceanana Pier in Atlantic beach. I was fishing with a 23# albacore and a 16/0 chain rig with a balloon hung straight down because the wind was pretty bad and I couldn't get a good drift. I only had a 9/0 with 50# dacron. It was getting late and I fell asleep. She woke me up and said a shadow was coming down the pier from the beach. I went back to sleep. Then she knocked the hell out of me and said it was headed for my bait. I jumped up and got to the rig just in time to see a tiger come up under my bait and out of the water up to his pec fins with my bait in his mouth. The head was on one side of his mouth and the tail was barely hanging out of the other side. He wasn't hooked at that point. I slammed that 9/0 into full ass drag and ripped the hook out of that albacore just as he was going down with it. There was no way me and a 9/0 and 50# line were going to handle that thing. I saved my back and $75 worth of tackle. Looking back that damn thing was 12'+ long and probably 1000#+.

Those are two of the many shark adventures I have had.
 
I've seen a few that made my butthole extra watertight while diving. Never had an issue though. They gotta be starving to mess with people IMO. Kinda like wolves.
 
Year before last a buddy and I managed a rare blue bird day out of MHC with 0 wind. We were flounder jigging AR 315 and 320. It was calm so we decided to run to 330 farther offshore in the skiff for some black sea bass. We arrived and began fishing when we heard and felt a thud against the boat. Confused we finally looked over to see a big tiger demanding to be fed. It kept nosing the boat. It gets really strange when you're not at the top of the food chain anymore. We were in a 21ft skiff and it was beyond half the length eye balling us like a fat kid and a chocolate cake.

Also for those that like to swim at the piers, NFW would I, there are usually tons of sharks there with some big bull sharks mixed in feeding on the throwbacks. Especially during the spring and fall when the spot, drum, sea mullets are running and fisherman are cleaning (aka chumming) their catches at the pier.

I have 3 friends that have been exploratory bit by smaller sharks in the surf. My one buddy had a sliver anklet on and that is what likely caused the bite.

Am I afraid to go into the water? Not one bit, but like any other threat if there areas of increased odds, I'm going to avoid those areas.
 
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I quit surfing and swimming in their dining room when I started fishing for sharks. Seemed kinda hypocritical.
 
Probably in the late 80s or so We were vacationing at Sunset beach. We had been fishing on the pier all day when some guy hooked something massive. The whole pier had to reel in as this dude fought it up one side and down the other. It was pretty wild. A massive crowd started to form and the pier actually buckled from it. The guy ended up losing whatever it was and the pier got shut down for a week or so.


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Never hooked a large shark but I have pulled back at least 5 or 6 good sized tunas that suddenly were missing the last 75%.

I got a fish, hook and about 10 inches of a fish that used to be 3-4 feet long.

Got my attention!
 
There have been bulls in the Neuse tagged and measured at 5'. Biggest I've seen off NC was miles offshore, mako about 10'. There are some big fish off NC and the confluence of the gulf stream and labrador current gets a huge variety.
 
REELDOC said:
I quit surfing and swimming in their dining room when I started fishing for sharks. Seemed kinda hypocritical.
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I quit when I saw 10-12’ sharks in the surf at Kure. Haven’t been in more than knee deep since. There was a wreck at the south end of oak island that you could see at low tide. We used to see a right big tiger shark on it.
Years ago friend of mine took me out on his boat and we’re had a shark hit one of the rods. Woman on the boat had first shift and it wore her out. He fought it awhile then it was my turn. Ended up being a 10’ hammerhead. He was like “ima put it in the boat”
I told him I’d get out and swim for shore if he did.
 
People swimming right by piers amaze me. Two years ago at Myrtle beach state park pier there were sharks between 5 and 8 feet grabbing everything that got sent back in. You would see fins break and the shark surface as the took the fish with people swimming within 30 feet of the pier.
 
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People swimming right by piers amaze me. Two years ago at Myrtle beach state park pier there were sharks between 5 and 8 feet grabbing everything that got sent back in. You would see fins break and the shark surface as the took the fish with people swimming within 30 feet of the pier.
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I fish for kings off the end end of the piers at Myrtle, mainly State Park, and we always end up catching some Spinner sharks. I enjoy the hell out watching them jump and spin. We have to cut them off at the pier but it sure is fun. Probably moving out of Myrtle this year up to Ocean Isle or somewhere that isn't as crowded.
 
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