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Took my cousin and his 15 year old son to Lanark Saturday morning. Got to the Village Market about 7 and it was already hopping! We get fuel, get boat in the water and head out to Dog Island for some pilchards. Got a bait well full and headed for Turkey Point. The bite was slow but I managed to get a few keeper trout and a 14" flounder between the constant barrage of sharks and sail cats. Decided to head back towards Lanark and check a few docks with little success, so I ran to a dock I haven't fished in 5 maybe 6 years and what a decision that turned out to be. We get there and stake off, and immediately get a small black tip on the hook, I'm thinking great same ol ...., well about that time my cousin is hooked up, I grab the net, take a look to see what he has, a first I think it's a flounder, turns out to be a nice 16-17" triple tail. I've never really targeted them and only ever even seen one on a floating bucket behind Little St. George. I never imagined they'd be around a dock in 4-5 foot of water. A little while later, I get hooked up on a nice 25" red. We are still wading through the sharks, and actually catch the same one twice, we broke the hook shank off in the mouth of a little black tip, not 5 minutes after releasing it we catch him again. After a while, the bite has slowed, I'm thinking of heading to the hill, when I get hooked up, turns out to be another triple tail coming in at 17". Didn't really have a great number of fish, but did end the day with 3 trout all right at 17", 14" flounder,17" triple tail and a 25" red. My cousin and his son only caught sharks, cats and the one triple tail. All in all, it was a good day on the water and we got to the hill just in time to get loaded and rolling before the rain got us.

Sounds like a great trip. Thanks for sharing.

There has been an interesting shark situation recently in the area behind Lanark reef or Bird Island depending on what you call it. It seems that there are a TON on small sharks, like 10 to 14 inches long. Everyone is catching them. I am not nearly enough of a juvenile shark identifier to report what species they might be, or if they are several species that are about the same size. These little guys are voracious eaters and will hang on a piece of bait even if they miss the hook.

No idea why there are so many in one area......but it looks like there will be plenty of sharks around in the future. I know they are an important part of the food chain, but I don't like wading, swimming with them.