Check out this cool YouTube video posted this week by YAKFISHERUK. It’s some great footage of kayak fishing for tope sharks off the coast of Wales. Topes are known by many names worldwide; in English, these sharks are called eastern school shark, flake, greyboy, greyshark, Penny’s dog, schnapper shark, school shark, sharpie shark, soupfin shark, Sweet William shark, tope oil shark, tope school shark, tope soupfin shark, and vitamin shark. Globally, the names range even greater.

Topes can grow to about six and a half feet in length and can weigh as much as 95 pounds. Topes can be found in most of the world’s temperate and subtropical seas. In the western Atlantic, they are found from southern Brazil to Argentina; in the eastern Atlantic, they are found from Iceland to South Africa. They can also be found in the Mediterranean. In the western Indian Ocean, Topes can be found in off South Africa. In the southwestern Pacific they are found in Australian waters and off of New Zealand. In the eastern Pacific Topes are caught in waters from British Columbia, Canada, south to Baja California (U.S.) and the Gulf of California in Mexico as well as waters off Peru and Chile.

The video, with its groovy reggae  beats, certainly makes the sit-a-top kayak fishing look fun–up until the point you realize how cold it must be there given what the angler is wearing. Nonetheless, good stuff, especially around 2:17 when a chunky Tope slides up onto the angler’s lap like Labrador puppy. Props to YAKFISHERUK.

FISH ON!

 

fish, Fishing, Kayak Fishing, Shark Fishing, Tope Shark, Wales

By Sid

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