Shark Fishing in Nova Scotia

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(08-24-2021, 11:26 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: Yeah, but if you're in brookie country you won't have cutthroats or bulls. They shouldn't ever cross paths. though sometimes you can find brook trout stocked out west. Those two species, specifically, aren't spread around like browns, rainbows, and brooks. There are places with native cutthroat where they have no creel limits on brooks because of the invasiveness of them in the watershed.


When it comes to the true micros, I either use size 24 or smaller flies, tanago hooks with a little gluten bait, or tanagos with pieces of red wigglers on them.

Indeed, Tanago hooks are the ones I have; I need to fashion the leader into something that can be tied/snapped onto my line, but that's not too hard :)

Thanks again, Matt :)

(08-24-2021, 11:52 AM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: If you get a chance to go to the Keys try to go when the shrimp are running. You can fish during the day and go shrimping at night.

https://www.shrimpnfishflorida.com/howtocatchshrimp.html

Montauk is known for its shark fishing. I learned to scuba dive not far from Montauk. The day we were to work on our navigation the seas were too rough so the instructor moved the dive site to a bay with a muddy bottom. Visibility was less than a foot. Great to work on navigation because you couldn’t see shit. I started to notice what looked like pot holes on the bottom. I got curious and decided I’d take a closer look. My face was about 3” away from a huge mouth with more needle like teeth than I could count. That’s when it bolted off the bottom and scared the shit out of me because I thought it was going to eat my face. It was a goose fish.

https://njscuba.net/marine-biology/marine-fishes/ocean-bottom/goosefish/

We had been warned they occasionally like to latch onto a diver that swims too close and if the do, swim to the surface and they’ll let go because they don’t like being off the bottom.

I had a summer job in Maine as a scuba diver. Too poor to afford a dry suit. That water is cold! Especially when you’ve been down for about an hour. About 10’ below the surface you can feel yourself swim through the thermacline where it gets even colder. By the time the dive was over I’d be shivering so hard I couldn’t hit the head trying to take a piss. That’s when they asked me, “You don’t piss in your wet suit?” Northern divers.

Shrimping might be worthwhile; all the shrimp we get in Canada is either farmed in southeast Asia or from Argentina (made the Argentinian ones on the BBQ on Sunday), so it'd be nice to try a different variety (or at the very least, something from the same continent).

And that's an awesome story XD I love the link for the Goosefish; pure tongue in cheek.

And THAT'S Monkfish; I know exactly the species now and they're delicious!