shark populations in puerto penasco

Hello folks, i have been fishing rockypoint for years, boat and shore, and have never hooked up anything really big. use to fish daytona florida as a kid and always caught monster fish and shark not too far from shore. first off, are there any sharks in rocky point? captains always say no. i find it hard to believe as we are in the ocean. and can anyone point to who i may contact to go do some shark fishing. thanks for the replies.

Under the "fishing" forum look under the thread you posted at my thread "fishing report August 13th". Will be in Rocky Point Sept 2-5 and we're hoping to head out to Area 51 on my boat and spend one or two nights on it fishing for big fish (hopefully Halibut) including sharks, or do day trips, all depends on the weather. We'll be based out of Safe Harbor. If the weather looks good for all those days and it looks like we can stay overnight on the boat at Area 51 then my buddy and I will probably just head out there ourselves due to space limitations on the boat, but if the weather's iffy and it looks like we're just gonna do day trips you're welcome to come if you're around if you don't mind throwing in a few bucks for fuel. If the weather's iffy and choppy we plan on heading just to Caballo specifically for sharks. Have a 26 foot Chaparral Signature.

Boccaccio5, Sharks, Yes.
Last time I cruised through the port going to Balboa's restaurant we saw hundreds of small sharks (less than 18" long).
I have seen more than a few sharks displayed at the boat launch in Cholla.
Largest one I've seen was a 13-14ft Thresher that came into the shallow water and got caught in Cholla 20+ years ago.

YumaJames said:

Under the "fishing" forum look under the thread you posted at my thread "fishing report August 13th". Will be in Rocky Point Sept 2-5 and we're hoping to head out to Area 51 on my boat and spend one or two nights on it fishing for big fish (hopefully Halibut) including sharks, or do day trips, all depends on the weather. We'll be based out of Safe Harbor. If the weather looks good for all those days and it looks like we can stay overnight on the boat at Area 51 then my buddy and I will probably just head out there ourselves due to space limitations on the boat, but if the weather's iffy and it looks like we're just gonna do day trips you're welcome to come if you're around if you don't mind throwing in a few bucks for fuel. If the weather's iffy and choppy we plan on heading just to Caballo specifically for sharks. Have a 26 foot Chaparral Signature.

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thanks for the invite yuma, i should be able to make it. i will def. throw in for fuel and anything else you may need. if you have time call me at 623 204 6365, i live in the phx area but we stay in penasco from may-aug. 1st.

Sounds good Boccaccio5, as it gets closer we'll see what the weather does and figure it out from there. As stated in my previous post if the weather looks real good for all those days my buddy and I will probably just head out ourselves and stay one or two nights on the boat ourselves (sorry, space is kinda limited), but if the weather is good for only one day and it looks like we can only do day trips then we'd love to have you come along. I wrote your phone number down in case you want to take it off the internet. Thanks, James.

Discovery Channel's "Spawn of Jaws" episode. Tracking pregnant Great Whites to the place they choose to give birth, basically our backyard!

On the way to San Felipe is where some have been tracked.

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View attachment 7005 On the way to San Felipe is where some have been tracked.

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The green lines are LANDSHARKS!!

Sorry Boccaccio5, weather looks good Sept 3-5 so my buddy and I are gonna take off to Area 51 and spend a couple nights on the boat versus doing day trips outta Safe Harbor. Would invite you but space is kinda limited. But if I go out again will let you know. Thanks!

Sorry YumaJames we harvested anything that was left at the 51, you might want to try the 47!

Awesome! Am so jealous, that must've been a fun fight. Can't wait to get out there this week, although the forecast has changed, see what happens…

Great catch!

Shark population in Puerto Penasco...plus one. 12 feet long 5 feet high Hammerhead Shark! Our newest wall-hanging! I love Craigslist!

Santo tomas fish camp

Another Mako bites the dust

Tiburones grande........

I had the pleasure to see the biggest shark in my life a few years back. We were doing the beach run North back from Penasco and as we were coming in to El Golfo we saw a pickup truck panga launcher dragging something huge. There were at least a hundred people running out to see what was going on. It was a Great White about fifteen feet long and almost five feet tall at it's belly. The 4WD truck had a rope on it's tail and was having trouble pulling it up the beach. The shark was all wrapped up in a monofilament gill net.

In Penasco I usually clean my fish while drifting at the mouth of the harbor just out from the old RR pier. For several years there was a big boy that lurked in the channel there. The first time I saw him I was sure that he was a bull Sea Lion. The beam of my boat at the stern is over 8 1/2 feet and this guy was much longer than that. What got me thinking was that he never came up for air. So instead of tossing the heads and guts I started dropping them over the side. Well, sure enough it turned out to be a monster shark, light brown in color with a smallish dark head and dark dorsal fin and tail. The girth of this guy was at least four feet. I presume it was a Bull Shark.

Funny thing, in the summer there are always lots of kids that jump from the pier and swim across the channel to the beach on the other side. Makes one wonder just how many have gone missing over the years.

I've scuba dove off of Isla San Jorge at least a hundred times and never seen a shark even when Sea Lions are giving birth and the water is red with blood and afterbirth.

There's a good spot off of Desemboqe were we get some good Dorado and usually after one or two fish some type of large sharks always show up and start taken em off at the gills.

JJ

Number of years ago, in the early 60's actually, cousins, sisters and I, all youngsters, decided to try to walk across Cholla Bay while the tide was out. Well, the tide came back in before we made it, we were first driven into the rocks and started cutting our feet, didn't want to walk in the sand because of sting rays, and the tide was coming in really fast, so we decided to go to deeper water and swim. Parents had talked about seeing a lot of sand sharks and I remember seeing some fishing on the family boat. It was getting dark as we were swimming in, there were about 8 of us and sharks were circling. Being kids no idea of how big they actually were but definitely saw fins circling. Some fishermen saw us out there and pulled us into their boat and brought us in around dusk. No fingers and toes feeding the sharks that day, but I'll never forget it!

I have to admit it, I fear being in the water. I love the water it is a major calming source in my life. It was 2 trips down ago that I finally went out in a panga, Eduardo was a good guy and I trusted Him and the boat and all went well.
I would like to catch and release a shark sometime, but so far havent even seen a glimpse of one... But I am always inshore fishing.
People know how much I love water but ask me why I dont go out on the ocean, I reply thats where the sharks are! Pretty irrational huh. Lol,
I think it has a lot to do with being a Jaws baby. Saw it at the drive inn as a child, even swimming in the lake evokes feelings of some unseen thing dragging me under and chewing me up. I will go back out on the water in Pp but there is always that , dun dun dun dun thing playing in the back of my mind lol.

so if something pulled your leg under water, you'd leave the old brown cloud and the shark would say, yuck he taste like shit. Lol I know kind of early for this

LOL, that's funny.
In an episode of family guy Peter is training Chris by having him swim upstream with the Salmon. A bear grabs him and Peter tells him to soil himself like they practiced so the bear will let him go.....
Very OT but I am easily distracted lol.

Hillbeartoe said:

People know how much I love water but ask me why I dont go out on the ocean, I reply thats where the sharks are! Pretty irrational huh. Lol,
.

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If the Maker wanted us to swim he would have given us gills.
If the maker wanted us to fly, he would have given us wings.