Caribbean Thresher 485lbs

**Mike Fisher** · 29-06-2006, 19:16

Even trolling for Marlins not everything coming up on a Kona Head has a Bill.

This week 31ft Bertram run by Skipper Carlos Manuel took a 10nmls offshore Punta Cana a hit by a big Thresher Shark, fighting over 3 hrs on a Penn International 80lbs bringing in a weight of 485 lbs.

congrats to the beautiful accident of the season.

Mike

**Dave Godwin** · 29-06-2006, 20:16

Great fish Mike, but not so beautiful dead.
could it not have been returned alive, are trophy shots worth killing such a specimen.

Dave

**Mike Fisher** · 30-06-2006, 13:51

hello Dave,
you are completely right, but you have to see the cicumstances too.
i am happy that i started catch & release for Billfish, i started that this year with the white marlin season, it's a process which takes it's time.
we are not fishing for sharks here in our local waters, so the client wanted his trophy taken and the crew took it.
anyways i'll stay on the catch & release for the Billies, we started blue marlin season now and in november we will run for the sails, not to see them hanging on the beach is the main goal on that matter for this year, at least we are in the lucky position that our country is not running any longliners and there's no comercial fishing in front of our east coast where i fish, i am very sure to get this together to raise a nice Billfish area, we run more than 6 months a year for Billfish, and we get them very close to shore too.
of course a shark, specially a great fighter like the mentioned Thresher, is worth to stay in the water for an other fight on an other day, but we do it one spezies after the other, at least we do.
thanks and tight lines
Mike

**marktheshark** · 04-07-2006, 01:27

There's nothing beautiful about a fish like that killed because the client wanted a trophy shot. That's neanderthal. The beauty is knowing you've caught a fish like that and knowing it's still out there.
Won't happen now though, will it?