Hey no worries-
For $600 I would have tried weighing in just about anything. Does a plastic drum count as a scrap fish?
I know... We could have zipped tied some swim fins on it and viola! An albino sea lion decoy! I am always trying to make use of recycleable materials and do my part for the enviroment.
I am not sure the shark would apreciate us toying with it though. One good chomp and he will be looking for something slightly softer and meatier to chew on. All I know is when it comes right down to it I am gaffing you in the leg before I swim!

Hey JTD,
You keep feeding me donuts on our fishing trips that old shark will have plenty to munch on with me. I am going to hide all sharp objects on my boat just in case.

Would you folks believe I caught a 62# king on 6# Maxima on the Kalama? If you keep back issued of H & F News- maybe... How 'bout a 43# King on the COW on a 8wt fly rod and 1X tippet at the age of 15?

Bob S... you have my full support! Keep chargin and keep the meatline rockin'

Downriggin'

All Jokes aside...
I believe that the sighting was true and accurate. Bob, I don't think your crazy or do most of us. It took guts to tell the story as I am sure that you knew you were going to take slack over it.

Hopefully, that shark will find its way over to the Ballard Locks

I hope your right JacobF.

Now that you mention it, how much money did Wa. spend to relocate that seal to California only to have it return to the Ballard Locks two weeks later? Tens of thousands I am sure. I bet a couple of Great Whites would have been cheaper and we would have no more seal problem!!! It is funny, everyone talks about low-holers, bait thugs, hardware throwers vs. flys, hell. I have more problem with seals than I do with fishermen! I keep one eye on the pole and one on the seals. I would love to let the big ones run for a bit and enjoy the fight, but you have to get them in quick so you don't end up trolling for seals.

Bob Salintino has nothing to prove, he wrote the book on fishin the bay. Maybe we should organize a winter shark derby? When I was a kid, (along time ago) my dad gillnetted the sound and he caught a tuna off Browns Point? If those tuna can get screwed up so can those White's. Be you-all will think a little about swimin in the salt now

No shark derby until we let em cruise around ballard locks for a while:) Hell, might as well not have a derby at all. Let him stay and handle the problem we have been trying to fix for years.