Blue Shark

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Wednesday, May 10th 2006, 10:40pm

This female blue shark was caught yesterday by Brian Oates from the Isle of Man (on the left)
He was fishing on my boat "Vitamin Sea" from albufeira, Portugal.
We were fishing on the drift seven miles off the coast of Albufeira
The shark was over two metres long and weighed approx 100lbs.
The shark was returned unharmed after taking the pics.

Dave Godwin

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Wednesday, May 10th 2006, 10:44pm

Dear Dave,

welcome in the Big Game Fishing Board. We are glad, that we can greet an real expert from Portugal.

That´s a very nice Blue Shark. What was the lure?

Kind regards,
Uwe

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Wednesday, May 10th 2006, 10:54pm

Dear Uve, thanks for your welcome to this board.
We were fishing on the drift using Sardines for chum and for the hook baits.
Sardines seem to work best hre in Portugal, even though there are millions of Mackerel swimming about the Sardine is the king.

Dave

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Wednesday, May 10th 2006, 10:58pm

Dear Dave,

what are the main species which you catch in Portugal?

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Wednesday, May 10th 2006, 11:01pm

Hi, the main species are Blue, Mako and Hammerhead shark.
White and blue Marlin.
Tuna including the Bluefin.
Dorado although thse do not go to the big ones like the other side of the Atlantic.

Dave

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Wednesday, May 10th 2006, 11:04pm

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Hi, the main species are Blue, Mako and Hammerhead shark.
White and blue Marlin.
Tuna including the Bluefin.
Dorado although thse do not go to the big ones like the other side of the Atlantic.

Dave

That sounds very interesting. I hadn´t known, that Big Game Fishing in Portugal is so good.

I think, many of our User don´t know about this.
Thank you for your answers, Dave.
Can I ask you one more

What is the best time for Bluefin?

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Wednesday, May 10th 2006, 11:08pm

This is usually later in the summer, and the Tuna in general go right through to the end of the year.
I must say that the Bluefin are not very common, i think that far to many have been killed throughout the world.

Dave

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Thursday, May 25th 2006, 4:58am

Hi Dave welcome to the forum, I work out of New Zealand doing a similar job to you. I have to agree with you I feel many of the Tuna species have been overfished especially by seiners and surface long liners, nice shark you have there and good to see it went back as the shark species are also under threat from the above mentioned. Portugal is one place I woould like to visit some day
All the best with your fishing
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