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Shark Boat Showdown in the Gulf of Mexico - Part 3

May 17, 2023 - 00:00
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“Let there be light.”- God We got to the Spider Cabin around midnight. Losing out on the boat chase sucked. It was hard to get to sleep knowing what those guys would be up to after they got through laughing at us. They’d be fishing somewhere north of the Port Mansfield jetties with a couple of thousand feet of gill net. Those nets usually range in depth from 6 to 20 feet, and they kill pretty much every fish that swims into them. Sharks are the main target, hence the “shark boat” moniker, but everything caught is kept. The fishermen ...

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