Sharks in the Potomac?

[BASSclary]

Anybody else heard of the 8 footer Bull shark caught today on the Potomac river?

Buy, how much fun it would be to pull in that baby on an unbreakable ugly and a Revo with 65# braid  ;D If I fought that fish and didn't know I had a shark I think i'd better change my pants when I pulled it ashore. LOL

[Maxximus Redneckus]

Down the road from were i live and to think i let my kids swim in the water i been doin all my life though chances of getting killed by a shark here has to be like winning a lotto ..i hope anyhow

[BASSclary]

Down the road from were i live and to think i let my kids swim in the water i been doin all my life though chances of getting killed by a shark here has to be like winning a lotto ..i hope anyhow

When it comes to swimming in the Potomac, i'm more worried about how polluted it is than bull sharks. :-[

[Micro]

http://www.bassresource.com/bass_fishing_forums/YaBB.pl?num=1283373388

[.dsaavedra.]

i thought they caught it two days ago. i heard they got one in the patuxent too

[BASSclary]

They caught one today also supposedly. Maybe all these sharks coming in the river's are due to instincts from the approaching 'cane?

Im not talking about the one Micro posted, I heard this one on the news this afternoon

[bass or bass ?]

Bulls can travel hundreds of miles upstream in rivers all over the world. People are killed frequently by them in the Ganges River in India. I once saw one in Cypress Creek in Ft.Lauderdale Florida all the way back where the fresh water lock is located, and people ski and swim in Cypress all the time! I never went more than knee deep in there after seeing that shark. It was a good 6 feet in length.

[Dan:]

The water where these fish are being caught is salt water. It's not like they're catching them at the Key Bridge. That COULD technically happen but I don't see why everyone is so shocked about them catching a shark in those waters.

[.dsaavedra.]

The water where these fish are being caught is salt water. It's not like they're catching them at the Key Bridge. That COULD technically happen but I don't see why everyone is so shocked about them catching a shark in those waters.

yeah me neither. they've caught them in the potomac in the past...

[1inStripes]

I had abouta  4 foot sand shark swimming around me all day while fishing for blues.  I never could snag that critter.

[BASSclary]

While at the OBX this summer I caught about a 3 footer fair and square. She was a purdy little sand shark so she got some sugar and back into the water she went  8-)