Archer Shark Rigging Videos

[IglooMan]

With Shark season on both coasts just around the corner, we thought you guys might like to see these. Excerpts taken from the video "Professional Rigging for Sharks".

[rabcoman]

very nice

[makomyday]

Great rigging videos

[Atlantic Abby]

Very informative videos. I can't wait to get out and catch my first shark this year.

Leon
Atlantic Abby
2006 Albemarle 248XF

[BlueH20Boss]

Good tips...thx. I also second the notion that fillet shark baits catch more than whole baits! When i have a shark boatside or under the boat, more times than not it grabs the fillet bait set just out of sight under the chum bucket.....go figure!

[N2theBlue]

great videos, but man that hat is goofy looking fred

[Captain Fred Archer]

N2...the hat is fine.

It's the goofy guy wearing it that ruined it!

[chubasco]

seems like I always get shark when I'm not even trying. defiantly a nuisance fish. Seems like targeting shark would be for people who are on some macho trip. No skill needed at all to catch them.

[gman]

seems like I always get shark when I'm not even trying. defiantly a nuisance fish. Seems like targeting shark would be for people who are on some macho trip. No skill needed at all to catch them.

No skill needed at all? That not the case my friend. How many 400 pound Makos or threshers have you caught without trying? Maybe if your fishing where their are quantities of black tip's, spinners, or blue shark's where its shooting fish in a barrel but finding the right type in the right size takes a lot of skill.

Finding the right patch of water, the right temp breaks, the right clarity, the right structure, and baitfish all takes a lot of skill. Setting up a great drift pattern, the right slick and most importantly fighting and landing a huge shark takes a lot of skill and teamwork especially during the end game when your planting steel

Skillfully slow trolling a 4-6 rod spread for threshers of makos with down rigger's take a shit load of skill as well, we found out the hard way

fishing against 200 other boats in a tournament and winning takes a lot of skill and luck

[Captain Fred Archer]

Roger that, G-Man. But as the old lady said when she kissed the cow, "Beauty (and fishing) is in the eye of the beholder". Everybody to their own, but I do think that one is in a better position to knock another kind of fishing after he's done it. Makos and threshers are a whole 'nother ballgame than other sharks. There ain't many, if any, fish - forget sharks- that pull like threshers, plus they jump. And speaking of jumping, those high flying makos (we call them "flying chainsaws") are not only difficult to catch, but to fight too. And both are great eating.

Of course, this is from a guy who fishes for bonefish with bait and a cane pole and uses them to troll marlin! They make the finest kind of blue chow.