Fly fishing for Mako sharks looks like fun.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Found this on Dan Blanton's forum today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsY8hm3j-s8






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http://www.danblanton.com/bulletin.php

[mems]

Mako Shark fishing in San Diego is awesome. Been twice got 13 on fly to two hundred lbs first time. Second time got a 700 lber on conventional.

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

My long time friend, Todd Setzer, moved from Sacramento to San Diego and has told me a lot about fly fishing for Makos.

He fished with Dave Trimble for Makos.

http://ontheflyfishingcharter.com/




Conway Bowman, is one who pioneered this fishing.

https://conwaybowman.com/shark-trips/

[Tony Buzolich]

I wrote a good story about fishing Mako's there a couple of years ago. Conway Bowman was hard to book because of his popularity so I got ahold of Capt. Dave Trimble who I believe is Conway's partner.

We had a great day with all the same action you see on YouTube. One surprise was when we stopped to catch bait. Mackerel on a 5 wt. is great fun. After a few, the Mackerel suddenly disappeared. Dave quickly yelled out "there's something big coming in". Sure enough moments later a small Blue shark came in and I was able to tease him to bite on the Clouser I was using for the Mackerel. Talk about fun Small Blue on a 5 wt. is wild but nothing compared to a Mako on at least a 12 wt. or bigger.
Tony

[mems]

https://imgur.com/a/1wNtKTL

The 700 lber, didn't want to get near this mouth.