Shark Fishing In Florida

Shark fishing in Florida can be done all year round in all parts of Florida. It doesn’t matter where you are in Florida along the coast. There will always be some type of shark that is swimming around looking for something to eat. These coastal sharks will bite on just about anything that you throw at them, from live or dead shrimp, pinfish, lures, flies, frozen squid, stingrays, etc. It just doesn’t matter to these opportunistic eaters.

Here is proof of this. The largest hammerhead shark that has been caught in Florida was caught by using a 3 foot stingray as bait. Sharks are the ultimate predators of the seas and are not too picky when it comes down to meal time.

If you are fishing for sharks and want to attract them to your boat, dock, pier, or wherever you are fishing, the best way is to use bloody chum. The more blood that is in the water the better the chance you have of getting one of these creatures into the general area. Sharks can smell blood from a mile away.

I remember one time when I was fishing off the local pier. I was not even shark fishing, but was actually snapper fishing. I landed a bunch of snapper that day, and I brought the snapper to the clean up table. After only about 15 minutes of cleaning the fish, there was about an 7 foot hammerhead shark hovering around the pier. It was eating all the remains of the snapper that I was throwing into the water. They seem to love blood, they love dead fish, they love whatever they can get.

One last thing to remember when shark fishing, make sure that you are using a wire leader line. Sharks have many rows of razor sharp teeth and will bite through a regular leader in a heartbeat. If you do land one while shark fishing, take extreme caution when removing the hook from the shark no matter what the size is. It is always better in my opinion to just cut the line. Do not try and get the hook free, cut the line and be done with it for your own safety. Nothing is worth loosing your fingers for, and even a totally wore out shark breathing its last breath can still use the full force of its jaws to sever fingers or remove flesh from the bone. So be careful and take every precaution when shark fishing. That is just some of the basics you need to know when shark fishing in Florida.