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Top This: Great White Shark Caught on a Fly
Leave it to my buddy and Fly Talk regular Conway Bowman to spice things in the fishing world up with yet another feat from the ragged edge...
This time, Con Man (Mr. Mako Shark Fishing from a Kayak) skippered Jeff Patterson of Abel Reels to what must be the holy grail of "out there" angling accomplishments--hooking and landing a great white shark on a fly rod.
The action unfolded a few days ago. Fishing 5 miles off San Diego, the duo chummed in a shark and cast a foot-long streamer fly at it... the shark ate it, and bolted away on a scorching 275-yard run. The ensuing fight lasted 25 minutes. Only when they got it near the boat did Bowman realize the shark wasn't one of his customary makos, but a juvenile great white, estimated at 6 feet long and 150 pounds.
It's believed to be the first and only fly-caught great white off the California coast. Bowman has been guiding these waters for over 15 years and has only seen a couple great whites. He has never caught one.
Gear: Scott 15-weight rod; Abel Super 13 reel; Rio Leviathan 550 grain line.
So who's next? Anyone gonna top that one? If there's a more bad(apple) fly fishing challenge out there, I'd like to know about it...
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Comments (22)
Does the IGFA even recognize such a feat?
Great White on a fly. Classic. I guess it hadn't all been done. We'll see what's next.
AWESOME!! AWESOME!!! AWESOME!!!! Can you come to Coastal NC and show me how its done?
Wow!
great catch. i have taken a few sharks on fly tackle but nothing as cool and majestic as a great white.
Awesome indeed. I guess the only thing to top that would be an adult great white.
Its time to go for a Killer Whale on a fly
Now try the same on ligther tools.
Well, to catch an adult great white someone will have to tie a fly that resembles a great juicy seal or something. Tying the fly may be a bigger challenge than hooking the shark!
That is awesome, I have fly fished a few times, but I am getting more intrested in it as the years go by. To catch something like that on a fly would be amazing.
I do not think you can top that... when I hear/see something like this, only one thing comes to mind... BADA$$!
COOL!!
What will they come up with next? Moby Dick on a fly rod or how bout a whale shark on a bream pole.
I used to surf off the San Diego beaches and saw very few sharks. Lately there is a bunch of Great White activity there. Lucky i didn't know about that then. Awesome catch.
We're gonna need a bigger belly boat.
CONWAY BOWMAN. A name that should always be written in capital letters. I have yet had the pleasure of taking a ride in his boat for mako, but it is high on my list of things to do. Now a Great White would be even more interesting! Congratulations to Jeff and his Able. I think that reel should be inshrined.
Sorry guys. Catching sharks on a fly rod is right up there with calling Brock Lesner a sissy and climbing a fence with a loaded gun. Your just asking for trouble.
wow........................
Asking for trouble... isn't that what extreme fly fishing is all about? Some day... some day...
On a press tour in Alaska, I watched a writer (name withheld to protect his, um, sensibilities) cast to breaching humpback whales just for the photographic opportunity. Thankfully, he, uh, pinched the barb...;)
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We're gonna need a bigger belly boat.
Does the IGFA even recognize such a feat?
Great White on a fly. Classic. I guess it hadn't all been done. We'll see what's next.
AWESOME!! AWESOME!!! AWESOME!!!! Can you come to Coastal NC and show me how its done?
Wow!
great catch. i have taken a few sharks on fly tackle but nothing as cool and majestic as a great white.
Awesome indeed. I guess the only thing to top that would be an adult great white.
Its time to go for a Killer Whale on a fly
Now try the same on ligther tools.
Well, to catch an adult great white someone will have to tie a fly that resembles a great juicy seal or something. Tying the fly may be a bigger challenge than hooking the shark!
That is awesome, I have fly fished a few times, but I am getting more intrested in it as the years go by. To catch something like that on a fly would be amazing.
I do not think you can top that... when I hear/see something like this, only one thing comes to mind... BADA$$!
COOL!!
What will they come up with next? Moby Dick on a fly rod or how bout a whale shark on a bream pole.
I used to surf off the San Diego beaches and saw very few sharks. Lately there is a bunch of Great White activity there. Lucky i didn't know about that then. Awesome catch.
CONWAY BOWMAN. A name that should always be written in capital letters. I have yet had the pleasure of taking a ride in his boat for mako, but it is high on my list of things to do. Now a Great White would be even more interesting! Congratulations to Jeff and his Able. I think that reel should be inshrined.
Sorry guys. Catching sharks on a fly rod is right up there with calling Brock Lesner a sissy and climbing a fence with a loaded gun. Your just asking for trouble.
wow........................
Asking for trouble... isn't that what extreme fly fishing is all about? Some day... some day...
On a press tour in Alaska, I watched a writer (name withheld to protect his, um, sensibilities) cast to breaching humpback whales just for the photographic opportunity. Thankfully, he, uh, pinched the barb...;)
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