Thanks, Tom, I'm glad to be here. You know, Bighead, I have heard (not sure where--may have been on this board) of huge sharks at POC literally beaching themselves on sandbars at low tide near Pass Cavallo, chasing fish. And it got me thinking that I had heard similar stories from my grandfather and his old cronies when we fished Port A back in the early to mid 50's, and I always assumed that they were BS ing me, since I was their chief spectator sport back then. Now I'm not so sure.
Also, you know how it is in the summer, when you are either swimming or wade fishing in the surf and the water is crystal clear and green and you can see mullet and even trout in the waves as they rise up? I was out in the surf on Mustang Island once in the 'sixties, trying to cast net some mullet, and all of a sudden about 10 feet in front of me a wave rose up to break and there was about 10 foot hammerhead just as pretty as you please, lying sideways in the wave.
You never saw anyone run a 9.6 hundred meters back to shore in 3 feet of water!
One of the things I want to do when I retire on weekends when I can't afford to bribe my betters to let me share expenses on their offshore craft is to park my bay boat in the Lydia Ann Channel where those old boys boated that record bull shark, coat up with sunscreen and sit listening to the radio and drinking margarita mix without the tequila. I would like to catch a fish I need an oxy-acetylene torch to release!
Russ