Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Ragged Tooth Sharks (Raggies) - Part 1

Dinos Raggie

Ragged Tooth Sharks are another species of shark caught by shore anglers, and are also targeted by competitive anglers. These sharks don't fight as hard as bronzies, the fight is much slower, as these are heavy lazy sharks, they are basically the fat lazy sh*ts in the shark family. They just wanna chow a bait and lay around, so you the angler basically just have to pull this oke out the water, sometimes i dont even think these okes know that they are actually hooked and just go along with the flow.

Thys Kemp jnr. with his raggie

Catches of these sharks over 200kgs are more common than that of bronze whalers over 200kgs as they are a lot easier to land, bronzies over 200kgs aren't easily landed and are more elusive.

Fighting these sharks doesn't usually last more than an hour even for the larger raggies, as they are lazy as previously stated. However these sharks do have the nasty habit of turning around on you while trying to put them back in the ocean, or while a buddy is trying to get it out for you. This isn't uncommon, unlike a bronzie which cannot turn all the way around, these fat sh*ts can, so be very weary when handling these guys. Below is what happened to a kid from Pletternberg Bay in the Southern Cape, when he was handling a raggie by the tail.

When good times go bad
(http://www.sealine.co.za/view_topic.php?id=27084&forum_id=1&page=1)

We will go into more detail about these fish, how to target them and where to find them.

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