Shark Week!

[Curmudgeon]

Yeah , the Mako is some damn good eating . Always was intrigued that the Thresher evolved such an odd tail and how the biggest of sharks , the Whale Shark ate ony plankton . Always found it appalling , the idiots like Mundis and his clients killing a huge , slow to reproduce animal to just take their picture with its carcase and then send it off to the Montauk dump . Had a fascination with sharks since childhood , probably cause the first thing I ever caught in Fire Island Inlet was a Sand/SandTiger back six decades ago . Damned thing was almost as big as my five year old self .

[art leong]

Originally Posted by Curmudgeon

Yeah , the Mako is some damn good eating . Always was intrigued that the Thresher evolved such an odd tail and how the biggest of sharks , the Whale Shark ate ony plankton . Always found it appalling , the idiots like Mundis and his clients killing a huge , slow to reproduce animal to just take their picture with its carcase and then send it off to the Montauk dump . Had a fascination with sharks since childhood , probably cause the first thing I ever caught in Fire Island Inlet was a Sand/SandTiger back six decades ago . Damned thing was almost as big as my five year old self .

You are right about Frank Mundus he was weird ran the Cricket 2 for 20 years. Then it was found out he never had a captains license and was here illegally.
We fished out of Montauk quite a bit in the 60's And I can remember the mounted head of the Great White he harpooned. Then Jaws came out and it was open season on sharks, they would just chum them up and shoot them. Drank with him a couple of times, he seemed weird. I don't know this for a fact. But I heard from a reliable source he used stray dogs and cats for bait.
BTW Threshers taste as good as any Mako.