Fish Tails/Whale Carcass

[fountain17]

Got out a late yetserday morning arriving at the nw corner of the tails around 10 am. Very good reports from other captains working the area overnight and at dawn hooking up with YFT and Marlin.

Worked over to the east flats hitting the pots and got into 2 YFT around 45lbs.

The two higlights of the trip were when a small thresher shark, maybey 5 feet long passed in front of my bow, came around into my spread and started blasting and muching on the zucker on my starboard flat line! Iv'e never seen anything like that before.

2nd was on the way back to montauk about 20 miles north of the tails we spotted the tuna birds working the surface about a 1/4 of a mile off our starboard side so we decided to go check it out. Getting closer there was a white balloon looking object in the water. When we finally were close enough it turned out to be a dead whale, maybey 25 feet long or so, and the oil slick and smell it produced was pretty thick. We circled around it for a while but didnt see any sharks on it.

Nice day on the water.

Tight Lines,

Don

[gradywhite273]

Wow, great job on the tuna's , thanks for sharing the pics, man they are interesting surprise the sharks weren't circling that .

[fountain17]

Here's a video. Not sure how to upload on this site. Can anyone identify this??? After looking at the video i think i see pec fins, so maybey its a huge shark??

don

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0L1noIocjw

[jbones11]

Not sure if its a shark or a whale....but Id def say its a male and he's definitely not neutered

[fountain17]

Not sure if its a shark or a whale....but Id def say its a male and he's definitely not neutered

LOL thats funny. I have no clue on this. I'm Sending the vids to nmfs for an ID

[captndan]

whales have pec fins too.

[fountain17]

These pec fins are huge though. I'm thinking it was a great white. I sent out a few emails to nmfs and some shark and whale org's....just waiting on a response now. There have been reports of some large white's in the yankee area lately.

[HOLWACHAGOT]

It looks like a Giant Hammerhead!

[Flatdog]

yeh big t bone by the looks

[fountain17]

Here's the 2nd video. This is driving me crazy!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYPeY8pv3ac

Don