Catch on My Way 2: 100 lb Porbeagle by Kris
Date Caught: Sep 2014
Onboard: My Way 2
Description: Amazing day in Holyhead Deep early September - our first Porbeagle Shark albeit more a sighting ... lol It started pretty slow in all fairness with only a couple tope and a handful of huss for our efforts. During the first hour we had been snapped off a couple times by what we thought could be large tope, or maybe a bigger shark. As the conversation turned to possible porbeagles, a shout came for the port side "big tope" & "shark" and as everyone looked over the side a porgie, estimated at 100lb, maybe more swam elegantly on the surface, snatching at the dogfish Rich was retrieving from the bottom of the Irish Sea. Maybe sensing something was amiss the shark turned and started to swim away until quick thinking Kris threw his mackerel bait into the water. The porgie turned and delicately took the bait before our eyes ... then simply swam off ... screaming reels indeed. With only tope gear on a 12lb Northwestern blank, it was always going to be a battle, a battle that eventually the shark won! A tremendous sight, a first for myself & My Way and also all aboard ... but maybe ... not the last
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