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Anyone heard how the fishing has been this week or last out of oceanside? I've scoured the forum pages here, but nothing real recent. Lee Goode (Team Hammer) & I are going tomorrow on my boat. Any inside info would be appreciated.
Ryan Thompson, 18 of Oceanside, left, Blake Wasono, 18 of Vista, middle, and Jason Thompson, 19, of Oceanside try to figure out how to get the 360-pound Thresher Shark that they caught off of Carlsbad into the back of their truck. Jamie Scott Lytle
By: PHILIP K. IRELAND - Staff Writer
Last modified Monday, June 6, 2005 9:30 PM PDT OCEANSIDE ---- By the numbers: one 360-pound thresher shark; 11 feet long teeth to tail; one 14-foot skiff; three young, healthy men; one 15-horsepower Evinrude outboard; 90 minutes dragging and being dragged four miles off Ponto Beach.
Three local men snagged a 360-pound thresher shark Monday morning about four miles off Ponto Beach in Carlsbad. Oceanside brothers Jason and Ryan Thompson and their friend Blake Wasano of Vista hauled the 11-foot shark out of the water after a 90-minute battle that began shortly after 9 a.m. The men weighed the fish Monday afternoon at Oceanside Harbor.
"This is a nice one," 18-year-old Wasano said matter-of-factly.
Nice indeed.
Though not a record, the gray-skinned thresher weighs 160 pounds more than the typical 200-pounder caught between Carlsbad and Dana Point, said Jerry Kohler of Helgren's Sportfishing. The largest thresher shark on record ---- 527 pounds ---- was caught off the San Diego coast by Kenneth Shilling in 1980, Carrie Wilson, an associate biologist with California Department of Fish and Game, said Monday from Monterey.
Wasano, who fishes every day, said he landed a 351-pound thresher a few weeks ago to win the North County Anglers' Thresher Shark Tournament in Oceanside.
Thresher sharks earn their name because they use their long powerful tail to hit their prey. This "threshing" stuns their prey, allowing them to circle back and feed at their leisure. Unlike traditional fishing where the fish is hooked in the mouth, thresher sharks are caught with a special lure that hooks around the tail, Wasano said.
When the shark hit their lure ---- a Sumo M79 Jethead on a steel leader and 100-pound test line ---- Blake gunned the boat's motor to further set the hook and wrap the line around the shark's tail.
Then came Jason's test.
Because it was his first-ever shark-fishing endeavor, Jason, a burly, bearded, 250-pound beach security officer with the Oceanside Police Department, earned the right to fight the shark, Ryan said. After 90 minutes, Jason fought the shark to within reach of the boat.
"We went where it went," Ryan said.
"Getting it in the boat was the fun part," said Wasano, a deckhand on the New Lo-an sport-fishing boat out of Point Loma. Jason wrestled the fish into the boat.
While Jason fought the shark's whapping tale, Wasano circled it with a steel leader line.
"The hardest part is the leader," Wasano said. "If you don't know what you're doing, you can lose your hand."
Back on land, his T-shirt stained red with bloody hand prints, Jason stood on the dock dousing the shark with water as passersby gawked. As the men hefted the fish into the back of a pickup, drivers slowed at the sight of the tail hanging four feet out the truck bed.
Wasano said it will take him just 30 minutes to filet the shark. The men will share an estimated 200 pounds of "the best shark meat on the market," Wasano said.
The trio plan a weekend barbecue for friends to celebrate Ryan's graduation next week.
Asked what Oceanside High School Principal Kimo Marquardt would say about his absence from school Monday to go fishing, Ryan laughed.
"He'll want to know where his steak is," he said.
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That night is how I found out about this website. Lee called me at like 9:30 that night to tell me what was going on. Lee IS a good guy and really knows his shit when it comes to fishing, especially shark fishing. His knickname is The Hammer and that's why his boat is named Team Hammer. I don't know the other dude that well, just buddy-boated with him a couple times (Lee knows him better), but I have heard Lee call him Craig sometimes, then other times
Greg, so - who knows. I think his boat's name is SolMar, or at least that's what it sounds like. I will definitely post for Lee. We have a weekly tradition called "the meeting" which usually takes place in Lee's garage every Friday nite. It generally involves alot of beer consumption and giving Lee a hard time as he makes it through the five distinct stages of inebriation:
Stage 1: Says the word "cranium" alot. (e.g.: "I'm gonna punch him in his cranium")
Stage 2: Starts talking about his old man, alot.
Stage 3: Punctuated by the first utterance of, "Suck my wrinkled bag", Lee's signature line.
Stage 4: Becomes a close-talker (like on Seinfeld).
Stage 5: Starts to hug you. That's when it's time to leave.
I sent my brother a picture of Lee when we were fishing in the Thresher tournament and he sent it back to me like this:
Bio: "I am a registered violent offender in the State of California and I don't take kindly to threats." Nothing but our best and brightest representin us.
Jim it's not like you have demonstrated a consistent history in estimating the length or weight of threshers, but I will give you this one for being wrong on the length. If that quoted length is length overall (LOA) then an 11' thresher weighs about 150 to 160 lbs. If that length is Fork Length (FL), then that fish is off the charts, as a thresher with a 9' fork length weighs approximately 550 lbs. I think the paper got the length wrong as the picture does look like a thresher in the mid-300 lb range.
For the rest, Threshers bit last Sunday off La Jolla Canyon though we heard of one was hooked and lost on Saturday (we released 5 makos to over 100 lbs in a tournament), last Saturday on the 14, last Sunday off Cabrillo and PV, plus reports of some off Malibu. So they're around.
Ryan Thompson, 18 of Oceanside, left, Blake Wasono, 18 of Vista, middle, and Jason Thompson, 19, of Oceanside try to figure out how to get the 360-pound Thresher Shark that they caught off of Carlsbad into the back of their truck. Jamie Scott Lytle
By: PHILIP K. IRELAND - Staff Writer
Last modified Monday, June 6, 2005 9:30 PM PDT OCEANSIDE ---- By the numbers: one 360-pound thresher shark; 11 feet long teeth to tail; one 14-foot skiff; three young, healthy men; one 15-horsepower Evinrude outboard; 90 minutes dragging and being dragged four miles off Ponto Beach.
Three local men snagged a 360-pound thresher shark Monday morning about four miles off Ponto Beach in Carlsbad. Oceanside brothers Jason and Ryan Thompson and their friend Blake Wasano of Vista hauled the 11-foot shark out of the water after a 90-minute battle that began shortly after 9 a.m. The men weighed the fish Monday afternoon at Oceanside Harbor.
"This is a nice one," 18-year-old Wasano said matter-of-factly.
Nice indeed.
Though not a record, the gray-skinned thresher weighs 160 pounds more than the typical 200-pounder caught between Carlsbad and Dana Point, said Jerry Kohler of Helgren's Sportfishing. The largest thresher shark on record ---- 527 pounds ---- was caught off the San Diego coast by Kenneth Shilling in 1980, Carrie Wilson, an associate biologist with California Department of Fish and Game, said Monday from Monterey.
Wasano, who fishes every day, said he landed a 351-pound thresher a few weeks ago to win the North County Anglers' Thresher Shark Tournament in Oceanside.
Thresher sharks earn their name because they use their long powerful tail to hit their prey. This "threshing" stuns their prey, allowing them to circle back and feed at their leisure. Unlike traditional fishing where the fish is hooked in the mouth, thresher sharks are caught with a special lure that hooks around the tail, Wasano said.
When the shark hit their lure ---- a Sumo M79 Jethead on a steel leader and 100-pound test line ---- Blake gunned the boat's motor to further set the hook and wrap the line around the shark's tail.
Then came Jason's test.
Because it was his first-ever shark-fishing endeavor, Jason, a burly, bearded, 250-pound beach security officer with the Oceanside Police Department, earned the right to fight the shark, Ryan said. After 90 minutes, Jason fought the shark to within reach of the boat.
"We went where it went," Ryan said.
"Getting it in the boat was the fun part," said Wasano, a deckhand on the New Lo-an sport-fishing boat out of Point Loma. Jason wrestled the fish into the boat.
While Jason fought the shark's whapping tale, Wasano circled it with a steel leader line.
"The hardest part is the leader," Wasano said. "If you don't know what you're doing, you can lose your hand."
Back on land, his T-shirt stained red with bloody hand prints, Jason stood on the dock dousing the shark with water as passersby gawked. As the men hefted the fish into the back of a pickup, drivers slowed at the sight of the tail hanging four feet out the truck bed.
Wasano said it will take him just 30 minutes to filet the shark. The men will share an estimated 200 pounds of "the best shark meat on the market," Wasano said.
The trio plan a weekend barbecue for friends to celebrate Ryan's graduation next week.
Asked what Oceanside High School Principal Kimo Marquardt would say about his absence from school Monday to go fishing, Ryan laughed.
"He'll want to know where his steak is," he said.
Special lure that hooks AROUND the tail??? The writer is making it sound like they were roping a damn cow with a grapling hook.
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Jim it's not like you have demonstrated a consistent history in estimating the length or weight of threshers.
OK... Guess you never got that knot out of your panties
Over decade ago I caught a T on TLD 25 filled with 40lb. Didn't weigh it just figured it was around four hundred pounds. I never put a tape to it, one of the guys on the dock did, he told me how long it was but I pretty much forgot about it later.
Hardest fighting fish I've ever had the pleasure to hook. We followed it for miles and I fought it for hours. It ran, it jumped, at one pont it sounded all the line off the reel straight down, but we did get it.
Maybe six years later some Internet "Shark Braggers" where playing it up about how they were going to be in the IGFA Book for T's.
I made some comment like I thought I once caught a T that was pretty close to a ten to one (IGFA Keeps ten to one records) but we never weighed it so I never submitted it.
So the Braggers get all bent out of shape, start demanding documentation, pictures measurements.
At the time I didn't know jack about T's. I had only taken the one. I've fished Sharks sice I was a kid but never really targeted T sharks.
Off hand I said something like the shark was something like 12' 8" and posted a blurry picture of it lying on the dock.
Well these bragger guys just completely loose their shit. Saying all kinds of stupid crap about me, measuring my fucking dock, throwing fits on the internet, like brother it was completely out of fucking hand.
It didn't stop there though they gave me crap for years...
I just couldn't figure it out. Like what's the fucking problem? I mean what's wrong with these guys?
It was only a God Damn Fish. Like how could anyone be so anal, so fucking insecure that it would be worth their time to go measure a fucking dock just so they could claim......That they were the real EXPERTS!!!
FUCK THAT!!! :FU:
Like who gives a flying fuck!
There are no experts in fishing thefinger:
I'm no expert, I may have opinions but You'll never here me trying to say I'm the ultimate authority on anything.
Get this...I was wrong, but not about the weight, but the length.
I ran into the guy who measured the thing last year, I hadn't seen him in maybe eight years.
The first thing he brought up was the "four hundred pound" T.
When I told him I had my doubts about what it weighed and he said....
"That Shark was easily four hundred, I should know I measured it.... it was over fourteen and a half feet long."
Well that made sense...It turned out the shark was 14' 8" not 12' 8" Stick those numbers in your God Damn computor model. :FU:
I've been fairly quite about it since I found out the truth, but what the fuck.
I've never been good with numbers or spelling so it's not that surprising I screwwed up.
If I'd known the freaks were going to make such a big deal about it I would of been a little more carefull with my facts from the start.
My shark was probably about the same size as the one posted above, back then it was a big deal, but now the gillnets are gone they are coming back strong.
You know what gets me. For me it's just an honest mistake, but you guys wasted all that time and effort on your fucking witch hunt because.......
.......I got a number wrong
I mean how fucking stupid can you be.
What's next are you going to start attacking these guys for saying there eleven foot shark is 360 pounds?
So what's it going to be....You fucking freak
You still want to make a federal case out of it, or call it quits
The T I caught last year was 11 feet even and 178 pounds, the one I got this year was 10 feet 11 inches and weighed 170 pounds.
I'm no expert but I can tell damn well that that 360 pound fish is not the same length as my two recent ones.
Last time I saw you two interact, one of you was passing bait off to the other...Can't we all just get along?
Yeah... I don't get it either. I try to be nice to the guy and what do I get? He starts in with the same piss'n contest crap about a fish I caught over a decade ago. :FU:
I've had enough crap from those two over that fish to last a life time.
By the way I found the GPS, coat pocket
You fishing this weekend?
I'll be working on the 55, but I might try to sneak out in the morning.
An eleven footer weighs half what that fish does. Anyone know it's real length?
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