KILLER HAMMER HEAD PHOTO

[booyaa]

[font "Arial"][size 2][/size][/font][font "Arial"][size 2][/size][/font][font "Arial"][size 2]Launched out of Oceanside Harbor Monday Morning April 13th, on Shawn's 25 foot Grady. We opted to fish the power plant since Diego waters were sloppy due to the Hurricanes pounding the East coast. Kind of a bummer because the Yellowfin were going off down south. Shot out about 22 miles straight out of the Harbor, looking for Do Do. No paddies, No working birds and no breaking fish. Bunk, we ran north to the powerplant. Herd of boats from both Dana Point and Oceanside landings. We moved in closer to the kelp line about 60 yards from shore at a depth of 70 feet, about 40 yards from a beach full of swimmers. Captain Shawn from King of the Cage was running live Sardines on 15 pound and tossing a Tady A4 scrambled eggs, with no success. I was doing the same, changing colors to dorado pattern and the infamous blue and white Tady 9. Neither of us had any success and the yellows didn't appear to be coming up for any of the 13 plus boats fishing the area. The slop shut down the yellows that had been going off the last few days. I opted to set up a dropper loop with a fat chunk of Mackeral. As it sank to about 30 feet, all of a sudden Shwwwing, my Graphite USA Predator bent straight in half. I thought for sure it would snap. Of course being a GUSA, No Chance! I gave it a 4 count, put it in gear and My Calcutta 700 started wistlin' Dixie.... my line started heading out towards Clemente. After a 45 minute squabble up comes the head from Lowes Hardware. Now What? Grabbed the Booyaa Gaff and got a nice clean head shot and pulled Stanley on board. Damn, Stan went ballistic. Myself, Shawn and Jack Daddy Smoothe started carefully taking swings at the unpleasant water beast. I Tee'd up with a size 32 Louisville Slugger. All that did was piss the shark off. The tail was flayling with authority. He was beginning to cause damage to the boat. I grabbed the tail and Shawn attempts to put the Sharks head in a King of the Cage submission hold. Stan continued to struggle. Finally I decided to take it to him. I climb up and carefully grab the head and start choking the shark. The shark begins to choke and spits out what appeared to be a size 9 Nike Running shoe. I stopped choking the shark to look down to see which one of us was wearing Nikes. Jack was hobbling towards the bow of the boat turning greener than he already was when the trip started. Now I was pissed. Those shoes are normally about $75 bucks. I continued to choke the fish out till he stopped breathing. The shoe had a couple holes in it but still wearable. Jack's ankle will be sewed on sometime this week. [/size][/font][font "Arial"][size 2][/size][/font][font "Arial"][size 2]Game Over - LETS EAT!!![/size][/font] [font "Arial"][size 2][/size][/font][font "Arial"][size 2]Actually, three anglers that we met at the wash down caught it and I couldn't resist taking the picture. [/size][/font][font "Arial"][size 2][/size][/font][font "Arial"][size 2]Peace [/size][/font][font "Arial"][size 2][/size][/font][font "Arial"][size 2]Romero[/size][/font] [font "Arial"][size 2][/size][/font][font "Arial"][size 2][/size][/font][font "Arial"][size 2]Launched out of Oceanside Harbor Monday Morning April 13th, on Shawn's 25 foot Grady. We opted to fish the power plant since Diego waters were sloppy due to the Hurricanes pounding the East coast. Kind of a bummer because the Yellowfin were going off down south. Shot out about 22 miles straight out of the Harbor, looking for Do Do. No paddies, No working birds and no breaking fish. Bunk, we ran north to the powerplant. Herd of boats from both Dana Point and Oceanside landings. We moved in closer to the kelp line about 60 yards from shore at a depth of 70 feet, about 40 yards from a beach full of swimmers. Captain Shawn from King of the Cage was running live Sardines on 15 pound and tossing a Tady A4 scrambled eggs, with no success. I was doing the same, changing colors to dorado pattern and the infamous blue and white Tady 9. Neither of us had any success and the yellows didn't appear to be coming up for any of the 13 plus boats fishing the area. The slop shut down the yellows that had been going off the last few days. I opted to set up a dropper loop with a fat chunk of Mackeral. As it sank to about 30 feet, all of a sudden Shwwwing, my Graphite USA Predator bent straight in half. I thought for sure it would snap. Of course being a GUSA, No Chance! I gave it a 4 count, put it in gear and My Calcutta 700 started wistlin' Dixie.... my line started heading out towards Clemente. After a 45 minute squabble up comes the head from Lowes Hardware. Now What? Grabbed the Booyaa Gaff and got a nice clean head shot and pulled Stanley on board. Damn, Stan went ballistic. Myself, Shawn and Jack Daddy Smoothe started carefully taking swings at the unpleasant water beast. I Tee'd up with a size 32 Louisville Slugger. All that did was piss the shark off. The tail was flayling with authority. He was beginning to cause damage to the boat. I grabbed the tail and Shawn attempts to put the Sharks head in a King of the Cage submission hold. Stan continued to struggle. Finally I decided to take it to him. I climb up and carefully grab the head and start choking the shark. The shark begins to choke and spits out what appeared to be a size 9 Nike Running shoe. I stopped choking the shark to look down to see which one of us was wearing Nikes. Jack was hobbling towards the bow of the boat turning greener than he already was when the trip started. Now I was pissed. Those shoes are normally about $75 bucks. I continued to choke the fish out till he stopped breathing. The shoe had a couple holes in it but still wearable. Jack's ankle will be sewed on sometime this week. [/size][/font][font "Arial"][size 2][/size][/font][font "Arial"][size 2]Game Over - LETS EAT!!![/size][/font] [font "Arial"][size 2][/size][/font][font "Arial"][size 2]Actually, three anglers that we met at the wash down caught it and I couldn't resist taking the picture. [/size][/font][font "Arial"][size 2][/size][/font][font "Arial"][size 2]Peace [/size][/font][font "Arial"][size 2][/size][/font][font "Arial"][size 2]Romero[/size][/font]

p.s. I should have turned my hat around. I was wearing my lucky Bigfishtackle.com hat backwards.
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[tubeN2]

Wow!![shocked] That's a nice shark bro. It's too bad about your buddy's foot. Those toothy critters can be quite dangerous. I hope you got some good fillets or steaks out of the beast.

Way to go!!![cool]
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[JapanRon]

Hey there booyaa,

Really cool discription. Nothing worse than an fish!

JapanRon
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[booyaa]

I didn't have any idea that we would have Hammerheads out our way, I was very surprised to see that someone had caught one. Any idea, which areas the Hammerz tend to hang out around?

Hope everyone is well.

Romreo
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[tubeN2]

Hammerheads as well as Blues are common in that area they are even caught up around Redondo Beach on occasion.

This warming trend that we are having in the ocean, without being an "El Nino" condition, is driving some of the bigger boys farther north.

I had a big surprise a couple of weeks ago myself. Off of Port Hueneme Pier, I surprisingly caught an 8' Lemon Shark. They are more common on the Eastern sea board and parts of Baja. I still wondered what it was doing this far north.

I was unable to land it because it was about 200 lbs and was no match for 25lb line. I did get to play with it for about an hour before it was identified and finally broke off of the line.
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[WFBRadio]

Mike
Hamerhead my @$$
Thats a San Onofre nukeaspilteye yellowtail, did it glow in the dark?[angelic]
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[booyaa]

Pretty damn cool TubeN2. That had to be quite an experience to lock up with a 200 pound citrus shark. What would you have done if you did get that bad boy to gaff?

Hope your well.

Romero
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[sp33dy25]

is it just me or do i not see a photo?
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[WFBRadio]

sp33dy25
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[sp33dy25]

thanks .. didnt see it
[crazy]<--NoOb..
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[booyaa]

Stevie B, whats up? When are we going to party again with the crew from the Western Fishing Boating Radio Crew. Last time they told us we had a good time.

I will tell you more about Dr. Hammer Head!

Rome
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[WFBRadio]

Soon Homeboy
I'll push the button if you do the countdown[crazy]
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[booyaa]

Q Vo Le Champ!!
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[Utcatman]

nice pic.... nice story too.
joe
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[TubeDude]

[cool][#0000ff]Fun story. Got a better one. I got a hammerhead about that same size off the end of Huntington Pier many long years ago, while fishing for bat rays. I was rigged for it and whupped that shark pretty good. Only problem was landing it. Neither my pier gaff or hoop net were up to the task. Somehow managed to take the rod around poles and up over the bait shack, with the help of a well-dressed drunk who had joined me as the only other person on the pier after midnite.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]As we got toward the surf zone, my buddy disappeared. He showed up running out on the beach and into the water...in his obviously expensive suit. I couldn't believe it when he waded out and got a headlock on the tired shark. When he had it up on the sand, I cut the line and ran down to assist.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The guy was sitting beside the motionless shark, laughing like a maniac. He offered me a hundred bucks to help him load it in his car. Sounded like a good deal to me, and we trudged it to the parking lot and loaded the messy beast into the back of a big station wagon. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]THE REST OF THE STORY? A couple of days later there was a story in the paper about a guy who came out for his morning swim and found a hammerhead shark in his pool. My tipsy buddy was a practical joker.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Only large hammerhead I have ever caught, but have taken lots of pups in the Sea of Cortez.[/#0000ff]
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[sp33dy25]

was your buddies suit ruined?
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[TubeDude]

[cool][blue][size 2]Never saw the cleaning bill. But, with salt water, blood, sand and who knows what else on it, I am sure it would have been tough to make it look new again.

Forgot to mention that I finished quieting that puppy down with a few jabs of my Kabar into the brain cavity and gills. It was definitely bleeding out. I had no idea the guy wanted to carry it some more.
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