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Title: A Fish Story

Published: May 1996

By: Lyle Davis

 

Who were the guys in the Fifth and “V” Divisions who caught the sharks fishing off the fantail?  We were down in the south Atlantic at that time.  I remember four or five being caught over a few days time of which one was 14 to 15 feet in length.  None were ever weighed that I recall, but that large one had to be brought aboard using a large gaff and the aviation crane.

 

What did you use for bait?  Did we have deep sea tackle aboard or did you rig up a makeshift affair?

 

I remember that only the livers were salvaged from the sharks.  The remainder was thought uneatable and tossed overboard.  What a shame!  Today we think of shark steak as being a real delicacy.  Every time I see shark on the menu, it brings back those memories.  Whoever caught that large one. . .can’t you hear him tell his grandkids about the really big fish he once caught!  I can just see the grandkids rolling their eyes and saying “Come off it. Grandpa.”

 

Lyle Davis, “N” Division