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Shark Fishing From Shore Around & Near NY Harbor

8/2/2017

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Surf-Sharking Revival
BY NICK HONACHEFSKY 
| JULY 27, 2017 | SALTWATER, SHARKS.
​On the Water
"New York and New Jersey’s big bays contain deep channels that act as superhighways for breeding and feeding sharks."
Shark fishing from shore is back in the limelight and improved tackle paired with daring tactics have allowed surfcasters to land monster sharks from the beach.

It was 1998. I had just moved to Normandy Beach, New Jersey, steps from the surf, and was putting in innumerable hours tangling with stripers and blues. One evening when bringing over fresh striper fillets to my neighbor, Jackie, her 85-year-old father, Buddy, opened a book of his old fishing pictures from the 1940s. As the pages turned, black-and-white photos of huge dusky and brown sharks weighing 100 pounds and more got my adrenaline flowing. Buddy spoke about beaching large and in-charge sharks. He hadn’t fished for more than 40 years, nobody seemed to think sharks swam in the Jersey surf anymore, and the idea of targeting them from the beach was lost to the sands of time. That is, until I saw those pictures.
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