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Sunday, April 12, 2015

Visitors Love The Shark Fishing Cape Cod Options On Offer

By Joanna Walsh


Many people will travel to Hyannis Barnstable in Massachusetts in the United States of America for a vacation. It is the largest out of seven villages and has the biggest natural harbour. They are well known for having the largest recreational boating and commercial fishing port. It is no wonder that many go there just for the chance of doing some shark fishing Cape Cod opportunities out.

In order to attract sharks the charters will use a method of chunking and chumming which is well known to get all sharks into a sort of frenzy and this is normally done off the side of the boat. No experience will be needed in order to catch a shark, the captain and the crew are all seasoned fisherman and are more than happy to show each person exactly what needs to be done. All the boats are equipped with well stocked first aid paraphernalia in case of an accident which very seldom happens.

There is a list of the ten most dangerous sharks and the first is the Bull Shark. Its scientific name is Carcharhinus Leucas and can grow to be about eleven and a half feet in length. They can weigh anything from two hundred to five hundred pounds.

Nantucket has only about ten thousand inhabitants but during the summer months this number is known to increase substantially. It is roughly about fifty kilometres south of Cape Cod and according to the Forbes magazine all the houses are valued as the highest in the country. In 1966 it became a National Historic Landmark due to the still surviving architectural and environmental examples. These can be dated back as far as the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.

Their normal swimming speed is about thirty five miles an hour but they have been seen doing close to sixty miles an hour. This is normally when they are hunting and in some instances when they are migrating. This is the only species that scientist have found that can do this speed. They are the most sought after for fishing because they are not large but one will need to have patience and lots of skill to actually get one on the hook.

The next is the Whitetip or the Carcharhinus longimanus and are capable to being quite fast. They weigh only about three hundred and seventy pounds and reach thirteen feet in length. When there are other sharks around they do become aggressive and they also like to swim close to the surface.

There are a few smaller islands in the surrounding waters and they are Monomoy Island, Monomoscoy Island as well as Popponesset Island. One of the privately owned is Naushon and was bought by John Murray Forbes. Many prominent families have also settled down on some of the larger islands as well.

The Grey Reef shark is active during the night and love to feed on squids, octopus as well as different crustaceans. They are also spotted hunting during the day and seem to be very curious. They are also very sociable and when divers are around they come very close. If they are threatened they will curve their bodies and at the same time hunch its back.




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