Surfing Waves

We saw two blacktip spinners doing their jump spin thing, lots of baitfish jumping all around us the whole time we were out and a manatee yesterday. Then today I saw three blacktip spinners jumping farther out, and bait fish were going crazy all over. That makes me nervous.

Finally, two bait fish landed on my back after I missed a wave. I screamed and turned my head and saw one flop into the water after bonking off my head. I was freaked out and got a wave to shore.

Sharks piss me off and fish need to stay off my back.

Shizzzzz that sounds like it was one of those days you can scare yourself outa your own skin let alone damn bait fish freakin ya out ,,, hate that I woulda bailed in allso can't have any fun lookin over your shoulder all day and gettin spooked by outher shiz/shadows etc na not a fun day at the office.
Kinda like times I've been in and not looking around and boink a fin 6 feet away pops up no blowhole spray!!! ( drop load in shorts!!!) but It's still an F'N dolphin,,,, why dolphin why??? Ya gotta scare the fecal outa me. and outher times see a fin and then go dolphin,,, oops wrong !!!! S#!T !!!!!!!!! tiger or white,,,,,,,,,,, day done for me !! Can relate brah that sucks azz.

oldgrom wrote:Shizzzzz that sounds like it was one of those days you can scare yourself outa your own skin let alone damn bait fish freakin ya out ,,, hate that I woulda bailed in allso can't have any fun lookin over your shoulder all day and gettin spooked by outher shiz/shadows etc na not a fun day at the office.
Kinda like times I've been in and not looking around and boink a fin 6 feet away pops up no blowhole spray!!! ( drop load in shorts!!!) but It's still an F'N dolphin,,,, why dolphin why??? Ya gotta scare the fecal outa me. and outher times see a fin and then go dolphin,,, oops wrong !!!! S#!T !!!!!!!!! tiger or white,,,,,,,,,,, day done for me !! Can relate brah that sucks azz.

WHATTTTTTTT.. you guys see sharks in the water?!!?
LOL.. haha.. i dont think ive ever seen one.. or maybe my brain just blocks it out automatically to prevent me from flailing back to shore and drowing in the process.. lol

Sharks were there first

Yes they were, but I didn't SEE them until recently. Last two days its been super super sharky.

And... I don't see them IN the water. We have about 3" of visibility right now. They JUMP! That is how they feed. They go real fast up and through a bait ball and eat anything that gets in their mouth. Last week a three footer jumped like 6 feet away from me.

drowningbitbybit wrote:Sharks were there first

I know, but it was a better relationship when we ignored each other.

Matt you beat me to it:

Bet your pissing the sharks off more....

mate that sounds hideous! i would of done the same and got out the water immediately

the only close encounters ive had are with seals and dolphins we get sharks round here, but only basking sharks - they are big, but completely harmless creatures. wouldnt know what to do with myself if i had quick and agressive predators jumping around me! would be so distracting

We were around new smyrna weekend before last and had bait fish jumping around us all day which means there usually gettin away from something then i had a manatee float up 3 feet from me freaked me out for a second. then something else quick moving was underneath me so i caught the next wave in. Hopefully no encounters this comming weekend if I make it out.

If you live on the US east coast you are probably always swimming with sharks. It is the one you don't see that gets you.

justloafing wrote:If you live on the US east coast you are probably always swimming with sharks. It is the one you don't see that gets you.

Yeah, I know that but... man it freaks me out when I do.

Yeah man once you start seein em kinda hard to wash it outta yer head and then havin gd damn bait fish flippin around just freaks ya out NOT FUN!!!!! But if ya wanna surf you just have to take the good with the bad and in reality the odds are in your favor not to get chomped on but I know I know it still realy don't help especialy at the times you see em.

dude, if you get bit by a shark play the lottery. i got bumped last year, kind of freaked me out to say the least. don't know if it was a shark or not, but it was a solid thud into my leg. i paddled the fastest i've ever paddled before. i've seen a bunch this summer. a big pod of dolphins popped up the other day right in the lineup, that was pretty cool

LOLRuss wrote:Yes they were, but I didn't SEE them until recently. Last two days its been super super sharky.

And... I don't see them IN the water. We have about 3" of visibility right now. They JUMP! That is how they feed. They go real fast up and through a bait ball and eat anything that gets in their mouth. Last week a three footer jumped like 6 feet away from me.

WHAT!?!?!?! those are shark? i thought they were fish....o_0

I've only died twice from shark bites.

Saw 4 sharks (1 big fleshin' way out) and a tarpin today. It is a FEEDING FRENZY out there.

TReMoR wrote:

LOLRuss wrote:Yes they were, but I didn't SEE them until recently. Last two days its been super super sharky.

And... I don't see them IN the water. We have about 3" of visibility right now. They JUMP! That is how they feed. They go real fast up and through a bait ball and eat anything that gets in their mouth. Last week a three footer jumped like 6 feet away from me.

WHAT!?!?!?! those are shark? i thought they were fish....o_0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinner_shark

and more commonly here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacktip_shark

And those blacktip fleshin' bite.

Anyway, I'm getting used to em but I ain't comfortable about it just yet.

Plenty of them down in the central FL coast.

I surf at the river mouth but we don't get as much sightings as in Daytona/Smyrna... probably because we have a ton of ship (Navy) traffic out of the river

I don't think the fishes give a crap about ships, do they?

DAmn that shits crazy! Dolphins scare me, one time there was a crab stuck under my bored and i i touched it. I yelled and threw my board on the sand.

Ohh yea and about 3weeks ago i saw a dolphin, so i thought, But later i was talking to a friend and realized it was a baby killer whale no lie.
My friend told dophins arnt black and dont have white spots. i described it as shamoo.... SO peeps that hit up GOLDEN WEST in cali near huntington WATCH OUT