I Need Bigger Swimbaits

[webertime]

Grouper eats 4ft shark in one bite:

[einscodek]

isnt a grouper kinda in the bass family?

thats a BIG fish

 

[Dwight Hottle]

Probably a Goliath grouper the old Jew fish.

[Bluebasser86]

I saw some where a few days ago a guy that had carved a swimbait to look like a great white shark to go with the shark week theme. Seems like there may be an application for it here. 

[Dillo]

did they at least hook up with the grouper?

[georgeyew]

I didn't know groupers will eat sharks. I guess whatever will fit in the mouth.

[Ginosocalbass]

they will eat whatever they want to eat.     you can see them on youtube, search goliath grouper "chew on this"  and they use Rays for live and cut bait 

[everythingthatswims]

You will also need a telephone pole and some 200lb fluoro to throw a swimbait that size. You could probably melt down all of your old plastics and make a shark hudd 

[SirSnookalot]

The interesting thing about the video is that groupers by nature don't feed near the surface offshore, mostly bottom feeders off reefs and wrecks.

I have seen a cuda nail a bonita, within seconds the cuda became a meal for a bull shark, landed it was estimated to be 200#.

One of the most shocking stories I heard was about a fellow I worked with.  He had a very pronounced limp, I asked him about.  While water skiing on Lake St Clair he was, attacked presumably by a muskie, took his foot nearly off.  After surgery and rehab he opted to have his good leg surgically shortened to match the length of the injured leg.

[Catch and Grease]

The interesting thing about the video is that groupers by nature don't feed near the surface offshore, mostly bottom feeders off reefs and wrecks.

I have seen a cuda nail a bonita, within seconds the cuda became a meal for a bull shark, landed it was estimated to be 200#.

One of the most shocking stories I heard was about a fellow I worked with.  He had a very pronounced limp, I asked him about.  While water skiing on Lake St Clair he was, attacked presumably by a muskie, took his foot nearly off.  After surgery and rehab he opted to have his good leg surgically shortened to match the length of the injured leg.

 

that's what I was thinking, I always thought to catch a grouper you had to fishing deep structure.. guess that's not true lol

[SirSnookalot]

that's what I was thinking, I always thought to catch a grouper you had to fishing deep structure.. guess that's not true lol

Not entirely true that the only place to catch them is offshore over reefs.  Small ones are caught in mangroves in shallow water, we seem them on occasion in the ICW around bridges and in the pylons of piers.  To me the video does seem to be shot offshore, that's what struck me unusual. 

[Catch and Grease]

Not entirely true that the only place to catch them is offshore over reefs. Small ones are caught in mangroves in shallow water, we seem them on occasion in the ICW around bridges and in the pylons of piers. To me the video does seem to be shot offshore, that's what struck me unusual.

Maybe it followed the shark up to the top while they were reeling him in... I dunno, how deep would a shark go during a fight?

[F14A-B]

Off shore in the Gulf.....big uns there... Monsters, Monster Hammerheads too...

My Father and his pals caught a 18' Hammerhead in 68 off a oil platform..