This is why I don't swim at night off the beach!

[slvrlng]

Look what popped up on the news down here:

http://www.baynews9.com/content/news/baynews9/news/article.html/content/news/articles/bn9/2014/4/22/florida_angler_pulls.html

Just keepin yall ahead of the curve.

sad to see it killed.

X2 - any shark over 250 lbs. is terrible table fare. No reason to kill that shark, what a waste.  

Actually, the mako is a member of the mackerel shark family. Members of this family don't excrete urea out through their skin. Hammerheads and other sharks do. This is the difference that makes even really large specimens great table fare.

Frank Mundus of Montauk with a mako they caught off of CricketII in 1979. This was two weeks after we went fishing with him. This fish was eaten as well. 1080 lbs, now that was a fish!
 

[icemanbryan]

Looked like a long fin Mako (not a short fin).
We call them Mano, very bad juju to catch one.
Anyway, very high levels of methyl-mercury.
Not a good way to go.

[Speedfreak95]

That kayak bait machine is pretty bad ass haha