Re: Shark bites back!
people get bit here too because they do not understand how to control a shark. You cannot grab a shark by just his tail, he will turn and bite you, it's almost happened to me, control the head.
It's funny that you wrote that.
Many years ago, on my first shark hunt, I had this happen to me.
Was with a friend, in his boat, and caught my first mako (7'). He got the flying gaff into the head, and I was holding the tail noose. He was just holding on to the gaff rope by hand, as he was trying to back pedal to the cabin to retrieve his shotgun ( he is a firm beleiver in the motto ' no live sharks in the boat' 23') He hollered to me to pull the shark in to the boat- meaning keep him firm along side. I mistook him to mean pull the shark into the boat- thinking, get it in so I don't lose it. So I started to haul it up tail first.
Long story short, the shark was able to get some leverage because I was pulling on it. He curled hard and fast, and just about doubled back at me. His open jaws just missed my right cheek and neck area. I'll never know if it were teeth scraped or just the force plus sand paper hide, but I was hit in the right shoulder. Took most of the skin and the top of my tatoo right off.
If that shark took my arm off, I would have bled out before anyone could help. That was why I posted that the guy was lucky.
