baron1282
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Sand Shark
LoL on the fire coral, I bet that was funny to watch.
As for the teenagers jabbing the lobster, that is sad.
I had lived in Gulf Shores for three years of my life and I still visit. Walking the beach one day I noticed some teenagers fooling around with something, it was a Sand Shark on closer inspection. No one gave a darn, but them teens were torturing the animal. Beating it, and pretending to put it back into the water only to take it out again. I went up to them and ripped them a new one, and I took the Shark away. The thing was about to the point of death. With the Teens laughing at me and every other dumb adult laughing, I held it in the water for about 20 mins letting it get it's strength back. It ended up swimming away, but I don't know if it lived.
Now I don't care much about Sand Sharks, in fact I hate them. Catching them sucks when I fish. I always release them, and I never hurt them more than need be. I just can't imagine why people feel that they need to torture animals. I am an active fisher, I mostly catch and release (mostly because I don't want to clean the fish. ). I only take the ones that are going to die because they swallowed the hook and no way of getting the hook out without killing the fish. I am a firm believer in taking only what you intended to eat, and kill fast.
Yea when I was snorkeling off the Florida keys I seen these two guys terrorizing what I think was a lobster. It was up in a cave and just the long feelers on his head were visible. They were pulling on them and jabbing a stick up into the hole. There was another lady that started touching coral even though on the boat they made it very clear your not to touch it. Well this lady unwittingly grabbed a piece of fire coral. Lmao.
LoL on the fire coral, I bet that was funny to watch.
As for the teenagers jabbing the lobster, that is sad.
I had lived in Gulf Shores for three years of my life and I still visit. Walking the beach one day I noticed some teenagers fooling around with something, it was a Sand Shark on closer inspection. No one gave a darn, but them teens were torturing the animal. Beating it, and pretending to put it back into the water only to take it out again. I went up to them and ripped them a new one, and I took the Shark away. The thing was about to the point of death. With the Teens laughing at me and every other dumb adult laughing, I held it in the water for about 20 mins letting it get it's strength back. It ended up swimming away, but I don't know if it lived.
Now I don't care much about Sand Sharks, in fact I hate them. Catching them sucks when I fish. I always release them, and I never hurt them more than need be. I just can't imagine why people feel that they need to torture animals. I am an active fisher, I mostly catch and release (mostly because I don't want to clean the fish. ). I only take the ones that are going to die because they swallowed the hook and no way of getting the hook out without killing the fish. I am a firm believer in taking only what you intended to eat, and kill fast.