Need Help Shark Fishing Marco Island

picua · Post by **picua** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:49 pm

Can someone get me info as to where I could beach shark fish at Marco Island without getting kicked out? I would appreciate any help. I don't want to make a trip and then find out that they are strict on this issue.

Thanks

picua · Post by **picua** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:14 pm

Thanks linesider. I appreciate the info, but are you saying that I could Shark Fish during the day with no interuptions? Are there many people bathing during the day. Also, at hat time does that public parking lot open?

Thanks

picua · Post by **picua** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:52 pm

So you are saying I would be better off doing it in the late afternoon into the evening, but I would just have to park somewhere else?

Thanks

kyfisherman · Post by **kyfisherman** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 4:23 pm

sharks generally feed late evening and into the night, so maybe it would be best if you fished then anyways. As far as shark fishing from the beach, I'm sure the tourist don't want to think that there is a big shark swimming around hunting for your bloody bait, but sometimes its' good for them to know the truth about whats out there lol

picua · Post by **picua** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:24 pm

There is no Shark fishing allowed on the Naples pier correct?

picua · Post by **picua** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:24 pm

Thanks Dave. Around which area in Sanibel. I just want to find some spots on the West Coast where I don't get hassled. So you have had some nice catches over there? Big Bulls? Hammers?

Thanks,

Luis

Perichois · Post by **Perichois** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 2:37 am

I also read where there imposing up to a $500 fine to anyone who shark fishes off of Fort Myers Beach Pier.I think they should lift the restrictions during cold weather.Who goes into cold water?But who am I to say anything...lol.

mntaxidermy · Post by **mntaxidermy** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 9:15 am

Perichois wrote:I also read where there imposing up to a $500 fine to anyone who shark fishes off of Fort Myers Beach Pier.I think they should lift the restrictions during cold weather.Who goes into cold water?But who am I to say anything...lol.

Anyone who knows the regulations is not going to openly admit to shark fishing if F&W shows up and asks. What if you accidentaly hook a shark? I mean you can't control what is going to bite. How do they regulate this. Do they fine everyone that hooks a shark or fine those that try to take them home. I've always wondered who comes up with these great rules and regulations.

Cookinman · Post by **Cookinman** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 9:59 am

mntaxidermy wrote:
Perichois wrote:I also read where there imposing up to a $500 fine to anyone who shark fishes off of Fort Myers Beach Pier.I think they should lift the restrictions during cold weather.Who goes into cold water?But who am I to say anything...lol.
Anyone who knows the regulations is not going to openly admit to shark fishing if F&W shows up and asks. What if you accidentaly hook a shark? I mean you can't control what is going to bite. How do they regulate this. Do they fine everyone that hooks a shark or fine those that try to take them home. I've always wondered who comes up with these great rules and regulations.

Perichois - Prolly the tourists I'm guessin.....

MN, Would be tough to do. Prolly post it just for the honest folks I suppose.

Perichois · Post by **Perichois** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:32 am

Heres the quote from the paper:

Shark ban goes against Fla. statute

Anglers concerned about the potential consequences of a county ban on shark fishing at the Lynn Hall Park Pier on Fort Myers Beach may want to take part in the Dec. 12 public hearing on new park rules.

The stated fine for hooking and landing a shark is $500 — highest of all park fines, and $200 more than for carrying firearms or other weapons into county parks.

I'm guessing the new shark-fishing ban is a misguided attempt by the county to counter what it perceived as tourism terrorism, when a man seeking publicity for his hook invention caught a 9-foot lemon shark off the pier last year.

Sharks always have been attracted to the pier by carcasses thrown from its fish-cleaning tables, but no documented attacks on swimmers at the adjacent bathing beach ever have been documented. So this could be called the what-you-don't-know-won't-hurt-you rule.

But back to pier rule No. 1: "No shark fishing is allowed."

Sharks, of course, are the 500-pound gorillas in this picture.

They pretty much bite whatever they want, including many a bait for which they were not intended.

Speaking of bait, the rule prohibits baiting, "defined as using cut up or ground up bait to put an attracting scent-line on or below the surface of the water." I read that as a prohibition on cut bait, which is the only kind sold at the pier concession.

The rule also bans "the use of shark lures or rigs." I'm not a lawyer, but on the basis of my knowledge of fishing tackle, I'd say that's vague.

Finally, the rule states, "All accidental shark catches must be cut loose. No landing or reeling in of sharks."

Unfortunately, should you be fishing with monofiloment line, you could find yourself between the devil and the deep blue sea, in terms of penalties. You'd be weighing the $500 whack for shark fishing, versus a violation of the federal Marine Plastic Pollution Research and Control Act of 1987, which carries fines not to exceed $25,000.

Plus, you'd have to live with the guilt of knowing pelicans, manatees and dolphins might get tangled up and die in your cut-off line.

Fortunately, there is a magic number on which to call, to get out of such pickles. That number is 370.102, the Florida statute that expressly reserves the right to regulate saltwater fishing for the state.

Thus, the county could prohibit fishing altogether at its newly refurbished fishing pier. But it cannot legally regulate how or for what one fishes.

The statute doesn't prevent counties and cities from making up their own laws. But it should convince judges that one has been wrongfully charged with an illegal law, be it fishing for sharks, or, chumming, or for that matter cast-netting off the Lynn Hall Park (or the City off Sanibel) pier.

http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll ... 1067/ENT13

There you have it folks....lol.