did a little shark fishing...

Food for thought:

Environmental BS can be manipulated to support either side of any argument...

Consider this, those of you who think I am some environmental bad guy.... consider the many endangered sea turtles, sharks, and seals I saved by killing and eating this 1 beast... After all the endangered sea turtles, other sharks, and seals are some of the most common food items for adult tiger sharks.... :salute:

Heck they even eat SEA SNAKES!!!!

LOL

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Originally Posted by Soterios

Hah, like the site would actually give an infraction to Big. :rofl:

He's the self proclaimed patriarch. :8:

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Yes he is, but that still doesn't stop these over zealous nazis:D(hope BG isn't offending) from giving BG infractions. BG has three to be exact. Funny thing is BG didn't feel like he did anything wrong all 3 times. BG usually knows when he's pushing the limits, but these 3 times BG felt like he was wronged.:taz::taz:

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Originally Posted by Mike Cavanaugh

:) I will agree to this on two conditions... 1.) you buy the liquid refreshments and 2.) you agree to eat a perfectly prepared shark steak from a previous trip when we return from our trip. Well see if you feel better about yourself having a full belly of the most tender steak you have ever eaten after fighting giant fish all day.



Careful... I am an excellent swimmer... And my 12 year old son who will be with us is an excellent shot with the pistol. :8:

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You do realize that BG is gonna show up with Protein drinks and caffeine free Diet coke?:D The caffeine almost killed BG. He's a leeetle too high strung to have that stuff anymore.:D

As far as your son goes. Once he meets BG he'll shoot whatever BG tells him to shoot....maybe even his poppa.:O:O:D

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Originally Posted by Mike Cavanaugh

Food for thought:

Environmental BS can be manipulated to support either side of any argument...

Consider this, those of you who think I am some environmental bad guy.... consider the many endangered sea turtles, sharks, and seals I saved by killing and eating this 1 beast... After all the endangered sea turtles, other sharks, and seals are some of the most common food items for adult tiger sharks.... :salute:

Heck they even eat SEA SNAKES!!!!

LOL

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HMMMM. Do you know you actually have a leeetle bit of a point there Mikey? BG does like turtles and snakes better than Sharks, but he's still gonna refrain from killing them. It more the Tiger Shark than any old Shark. They're just such an awesome Shark that BG just couldn't bring himself to kill one.:(

Like BG stated earlier. He doesn't believe everything that scientist say, but he does believe that Sharks may be in trouble in the future.

BG has to do a leeetle research now, but he thinks he can prove there is a problem in one country in particular right now from over fishing. This is from personal experience actually.

As coincidence would have it fans. It's Shark week on discovery.:gj:

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As far as your son goes. Once he meets BG he'll shoot whatever BG tells him to shoot....maybe even his poppa.:O:O:D

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Oh, lord, sorry to go off topic, but I adore you BG.

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Oh, lord, sorry to go off topic, but I adore you BG.

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You only realized this now? Of course you do.:D

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You do realize that BG is gonna show up with Protein drinks and caffeine free Diet coke?:D The caffeine almost killed BG. He's a leeetle too high strung to have that stuff anymore.:D

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No problem just don't forget "The Captain"

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As far as your son goes. Once he meets BG he'll shoot whatever BG tells him to shoot....maybe even his poppa.:O:O:D

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LMAO! Maybe we should leave him home for this trip. The thought of me coming up from a dive and seeing him giving you a hi five with one hand, pistol in the other is quite disturbing.. :O

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BG has to do a leeetle research now, but he thinks he can prove there is a problem in one country in particular right now from over fishing. This is from personal experience actually.

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It would be interesting to see what you can find on this. Problem is though for every "scientist" that makes a claim about low numbers, there is another "scientist" that disagrees. This is where common sense and personal observation and experience comes into play.

coming from a fishing family outta brooklyn I love those pictures Mike. Shark fishing is awesome and i wish i got a chance to do more of it. :gj:

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coming from a fishing family outta brooklyn I love those pictures Mike. Shark fishing is awesome and i wish i got a chance to do more of it. :gj:

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It is a blast! And it does take lots of knowledge, energy, strength, and patience to get them in. Those that think it is as simple as throwing bait on a hook, waiting for the stupid shark to bite, then reeling them in don't have a clue. This shark weighed over 200lbs and he was caught using 50lb mono. I used an 8/0 penn reel and pole that I found on the ocean floor the previous dive trip.... Using that pole and reel I just rebuilt made it TWICE as fun!!!

Shark fishing is big in Fl right now because 1) the number of sharks hanging around the reefs is much higher then usual and 2) bottom fishing ain't that much fun when there is currently a ban on red snapper!

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No problem just don't forget "The Captain"



LMAO! Maybe we should leave him home for this trip. The thought of me coming up from a dive and seeing him giving you a hi five with one hand, pistol in the other is quite disturbing.. :O




It would be interesting to see what you can find on this. Problem is though for every "scientist" that makes a claim about low numbers, there is another "scientist" that disagrees. This is where common sense and personal observation and experience comes into play.

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No problem on the "Captain".

"Quite disturbing" to you....comical to BG.:P:D

As far as BG's leeetle research...he couldn't find anything in print yet, but he will say this. Big GUnns was recently in a country with many islands(ask BG's "special friend"...he'll tell you where BG was huh leeetle spy with nothing better to do than watch BG):D. BG was doing a leeetle snorkeling. Now BG may like Sharks, but he doesn't like to swim with them so BG asked the locals about Sharks. Their response was "there are no Sharks". BG asked why there were no Sharks around any of these islands. They responded "we caught them all". Every last single one of them. Now they go to other close by countries to catch them and are arrested by those countries if they have them in the boat. Now this is personal BG experience from people with no reason to lie. BG didn't state this to begin with because he is up to something top secret.;):D

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It is a blast! And it does take lots of knowledge, energy, strength, and patience to get them in. Those that think it is as simple as throwing bait on a hook, waiting for the stupid shark to bite, then reeling them in don't have a clue. This shark weighed over 200lbs and he was caught using 50lb mono. I used an 8/0 penn reel and pole that I found on the ocean floor the previous dive trip.... Using that pole and reel I just rebuilt made it TWICE as fun!!!

Shark fishing is big in Fl right now because 1) the number of sharks hanging around the reefs is much higher then usual and 2) bottom fishing ain't that much fun when there is currently a ban on red snapper!

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Pfffft.....BG will just pull back on the pole and flip it in the boat from 100 yards.:D

IF you two go fishing together we NEED pics!! :rofl::rofl:

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IF you two go fishing together we NEED pics!! :rofl::rofl:

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You will see their pics...on the bulletin board at the post office!! :rofl: