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Shark Fishing  The scale said 1,174 pounds, but no one knows how big the marlin really was. A hundred pounds or more of the fish swam off in the belly of a 14-foot tiger shark.What would you do if you saw your trophy catch being eyed by a toothy monster? At times there may be nothing you can do, but here are two things to try: 1. Attach a hook to a fathom length of heavy nylon leader and then attach that to a plastic bottle. (The kind that soaps and bleaches come in works great.) Then fishing bait your hook with a whole bonito, skipjack tuna or mackerel, or a big slab of some other kind of juicy fillet. When the shark starts showing an interest, toss the bait and bottle. If you are lucky, the shark will swallow the bait and start swimming off. As it does, the bottle will trail behind, banging the shark on its flanks as it is dragged along. The bottle will keep the shark busy for as long as it takes until it eventually wears through the nylon leader. If you are very lucky, the annoyed antics of the bottled shark will attract the attention of other sharks and they will all wander off together because the angry shark is a lot more interesting than the fish you are hauling in. If they don't all leave with the bottled shark, toss out another bottled bait for the next one. 2. Instead of attaching your 6-foot leader to a bottle, crimp it to a second hook. Fishing bait both hooks and toss the whole rig over at once. Get both hooks in the water at the same time so you don't risk hooking a shark on one and yourself or your boat on the other. When the trick works, you'll have a shark hooked to each end of the leader and they will keep each other busy until they break free of the leader. Just hope they do swim away and don't decide to wrap the leader around your line! Still wondering about the 1,174-pound blue? Even minus the shark's dinner, it was the largest marlin boated in Hawaii waters in 2005. It was caught on the Honolulu charter boat Magic with Capt. Russell Tanaka, crew Steven Tsutahara and angler Paul Ortiz. The tiger shark didn't arrive on the scene until the end of a fight that ran well over eight hours. "We had our hands full with the marlin and had it just behind the boat when we saw the two big shadows back there," Tanaka says. "By that time it was too late to do anything." « Home
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