Spinner sharks are always prevalent this time of year, but they normally keep a bit off the beach. You can see them doing their acrobatic spin attacks on hapless prey but that occurs like 200 yards off the beach.
Thusly:
Last night I went fishing and they were right at the beach swimming in the waves likes just like you do on a beach vacation. Even saw one ride a wive, surfing inside the wave if you will, right to the break. I could literally have tackled it in knee deep water. I know a kid caught a 5 ft black tip of 'a beach in Palm Beach county' last week. My sighting was two of them, maybe 4-5 feet gently swimming right along the beach as close as the waves would let them.
Apparently, this has been the norm for the last week at least. According to a local live lining a barracuda (this means he just attached a live barracuda to a hook and cast it from the beach into the water, maybe a 20 ft cast) in an attempt to do battle with a shark.
We swim at this beach all the time, btw.
This was late afternoon, early evening. More and more sharks are sunset approached.
On the upside I did catch a barely legal (11 inch) pompano before the sharks got to thick. It will be dinner tonight.
