Peter123
C-Note
- Location
- Houston, TX
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http://d3564468.u89.jodoshared.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9022
I live on the lower San Jac river and do my best to wake up early and Kayak at least 2 or 3 times a week before work. A few weeks ago, the tide was out and we have these wide shallow lakes were all kinds of fish collect and predatory fish wiggle through cramped spaces to get to the compressed schools of small fish. That morning I saw something really weird. It was probably 75ft out and It was some sort of a large gar or carp struggling through a shallow area. It looked like a shark, but I didn't want to make a big deal out of it without any confirmation.
Saturday morning I had a friend passing through town and he convinced me to do a dawn patrol ride. The water was glass and the mullet were jumping like crazy. He asked me on the ramp if I had ever been hit by one and I said, "Oddly no. Those guys are pros." Well, We are cruising around the southern bend of Rio Villa and I get hit by something about knee-high. I look down and see a 6-inch mullet bouncing off me. I make the turn around and fall just about where I was hit by the fish. We all had a good laugh about it and as were are switching riders a mullet smacks the side of the boat. We joked that either that is one dumb mullet or he is far less concerned about what is front of him than what is behind him...
...Then we saw what was behind him. A huge fish rolled to the surface (far larger than what I saw a few weeks earlier). I yelled, "Holy S***. I think that was a shark." Everyone turned to see it surface again this time with its teeth blazing. There is no doubt that it was about a 5-6 foot shark. It was easily bigger than me.
I have heard stories of bull sharks in the lower San Jac during drought years, but I had never really concerned about it. Let me confirm that they are there.
http://d3564468.u89.jodoshared.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=9022
I live on the lower San Jac river and do my best to wake up early and Kayak at least 2 or 3 times a week before work. A few weeks ago, the tide was out and we have these wide shallow lakes were all kinds of fish collect and predatory fish wiggle through cramped spaces to get to the compressed schools of small fish. That morning I saw something really weird. It was probably 75ft out and It was some sort of a large gar or carp struggling through a shallow area. It looked like a shark, but I didn't want to make a big deal out of it without any confirmation.
Saturday morning I had a friend passing through town and he convinced me to do a dawn patrol ride. The water was glass and the mullet were jumping like crazy. He asked me on the ramp if I had ever been hit by one and I said, "Oddly no. Those guys are pros." Well, We are cruising around the southern bend of Rio Villa and I get hit by something about knee-high. I look down and see a 6-inch mullet bouncing off me. I make the turn around and fall just about where I was hit by the fish. We all had a good laugh about it and as were are switching riders a mullet smacks the side of the boat. We joked that either that is one dumb mullet or he is far less concerned about what is front of him than what is behind him...
...Then we saw what was behind him. A huge fish rolled to the surface (far larger than what I saw a few weeks earlier). I yelled, "Holy S***. I think that was a shark." Everyone turned to see it surface again this time with its teeth blazing. There is no doubt that it was about a 5-6 foot shark. It was easily bigger than me.
I have heard stories of bull sharks in the lower San Jac during drought years, but I had never really concerned about it. Let me confirm that they are there.
