Loading ...Noodling for sharks takes a little different application. When I was on my second all expense paid trip to Southeast Asia , us rednecks had to improvise another method of fishing know as “telephoning on steroids”. Back home as the fish moved to deeper open water, we used an old hand crank phone with wires attached to shock the fish. We would scoop them up in a dip net when they came to the top.
Since we didn’t have a small generator available on the ship, we used concussion grenades. The process was very simple. You simply estimated the depth to the shark, guessed at the time of descent to target level, pulled the pin and let it fly. If the shark was shallow, we stood there holding a live grenade for one or two seconds. The thought never crossed our mind about grenade fuse quality control.
if the water was deeper than the four second fuse would reach, we improvised again. Simply take a b4 can, fill it with c4, slide in a grenade fuse and wrap the can and handle with the proper number of wraps of toilet paper.
It worked very well for all fish and we put more than a few under the small fishing boats we were searching if they gave us a hard time. After every explosion, the local would hurry over to pick up the fish. The vast majority of sharks were hammerheads. The locals must really like them because they grabbed the Sharks second to the red snapper. Once a whale shark swam under our little rubber boat in shallow water. I’m not saying I was scared, but when I put my foot over the side and shook my leg, significant pollution went into the South China Sea!
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