7 mile "Texas Sleigh Ride"???

[Mythman]

So last night on the channel 2 news they do this report about a kayaker who took a 7 mile "Texas Sleigh Ride" being pulled by a 9' blacktip. They said his name but I can't remember it. Said he finally cut the line.................and one of the broadcasters wondered why it took him 7 miles to reach that decision................me too!

I couldn't find the report on Click 2 Houston today, but did find this brief report from a Galveston newpaper:

http://www.galvestondailynews.com/news/ ... 0f31a.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Milkjug]

Just like the newbs who report yakking in "6 foot" seas when all there were that day were maybe 2-3's, exaggerations can happen when the adrenaline is flowing.

[alwaysinshorts]

Total BS. A 6foot shark doesn't have enough energy to a ride that long. I would says most fish if not all under 8 foot can't pull you longer than half a mile and even that I am giving that the benefit

[Mythman]

Well the same thing crossed my mind when I saw the report.................7 miles????

I did have a 5-6 ft. spinner pull me 2 miles, one time, but he was foul hooked in the lateral fin. But he did pull me and 3 kayakers tied on sideways behind me and a drift sock for a mile. I thought that was something.

[ElTiburon]

9' BT?! You gotta hang on to that! World Record shattererrrrrr...

[YAK'N AGGIE]

Total BS. A 6foot shark doesn't have enough energy to a ride that long. I would says most fish if not all under 8 foot can't pull you longer than half a mile and even that I am giving that the benefit

Well he said it was 9 foot..

But I think therein lies the "BS". A 9 foot blacktip? Something tells me a 6-7' shark towed a guy a mile and he just sucks at estimating.

[MulletOver]

dragging his kayak along a beach about 7 miles west from where he said he hooked a 9-foot blacktip shark

What on earth made him think it would be easier to drag his kayak than it would be to say um... just paddle back? I have drug a few kayaks, and it kinda sucks.

Maybe he should have just put out more bait and hoped for a 10 foot redfish to drag him back over.

[rod dawg]

2 red flags pop to mind.

1)9' blacktip means 4'
2)7 mile sleigh ride means < 1 mile

Adrenaline rush and the chance to be in the news=mass exaggeration.

[Timotheus]

Has anyone seen the video on youtube where a yakker hooks up with what he guessed to be a 400lb bft. Thing pulled him an est 15 miles.

[TheBert]

Maybe it was a Great White...

[bigwalt]

People will do anything to be on the news these days. Surely he has to think in the back of his mind that people aren't going to believe this.

[Mythman]

Here is a better (more details) write up on this adventure:

http://www.texaskayakfisherman.com/foru ... 7#p1956897" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Gofish!]

dragging his kayak along a beach about 7 miles west from where he said he hooked a 9-foot blacktip shark

What on earth made him think it would be easier to drag his kayak than it would be to say um... just paddle back? I have drug a few kayaks, and it kinda sucks.

Maybe he should have just put out more bait and hoped for a 10 foot redfish to drag him back over.

Funny Funny Funny

[saltykat]

I guess a 9ft shark could drag you that far with a strong current if you didn't put much pressure on it and if it decided to only swim in one direction

[alwaysinshorts]

I just read it. I still think it is BS. I have caught a lot of big fish and a 7mile ride it just not something that I believe most sharks aren't made for that type of fight. The only ones that I think could pull you a long distance would be a mako or a white shark. Other types of sharks just don't have the endurance.

No if you told me you caught a large 100lbs wahoo or a 100plus pound yellowfin I might believe that since those fish are made for speed which generally mean they have great endurance.

And as everyone said a 9foot blacktip is even more unbelievable.

[Alsatian]

I don't know why everyone's being so hard on the guy and calling him out like you are. Of course the size is exaggerated, he's a fisherman.

[bigfost]

Exaggeration happens. With the help of a brisk wind and a ripping current, I once had a big BT pull me about two miles. I know how far it was because I started at Sun Oil and ended up at Rollover.

However, paddling back against that same wind and current, I would have sworn I paddled 10 miles. At least I got to fight the fish for my trouble. Jolly Roger followed me, and had to paddle back all that way, just to take pictures.

[Newf88]

KHOU says he went 4 miles, then tied the shark to the back of his kayak to try to keep and get mounted.

I think the scariest part was that he did it in a Pelican kayak

http://www.khou.com/news/local/Shark-dr ... 39241.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Yaklash]

KHOU says he went 4 miles, then tied the shark to the back of his kayak to try to keep and get mounted.

I think the scariest part was that he did it in a Pelican kayak

http://www.khou.com/news/local/Shark-dr ... 39241.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

That's the report I saw. They showed his grossly under-equipped kayak and I thought, WTF was he even doing out there in that without a buddy?

[sheriff_john]

Glad he got home safe.

I guess Darwin had the day off.

[Reelgame]

Moby dick comes to mind lol. Not inferring its fiction lol

[fishinmachine]

I don't know why everyone's being so hard on the guy and calling him out like you are. Of course the size is exaggerated, he's a fisherman.

My thoughts exactly, Alsatian. I chuckled when I read the story...we're all cut from similar cloth, here, brothers.

[Crazy Yak]

Hey Mike,

Remember that time when the 5-6ft Spinner pulled you, me with a drift chute, and 2 other kayakers almost 2 miles?

[capn crunch]

makes you wonder if maybe the reporter who wrote the story may have made a mistake or two when he wrote the story. He did mention that he was drug "across the bay", and I'm just guessin he caught it in the gulf.

[justinn]

Maybe he drifted most of the day not realizing where he was at then by the time he made it back to shore it was 7 miles from his launch? ooooor just another fish story lol