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Blacktip Shark
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Description:Shark Fishing in Florida. The blacktip shark is dark gray/blue to brown above, and white below with a distinct white band across the flank. The black tips found on the pectoral fins, first and second dorsals, pelvic fins, and lower caudal lobe are very apparent, though they tend to fade with age. The blacktip does not usually have black tips on its anal fin. The similar-looking spinner shark (Carcharhinus brevipinna) does usually develop a black tip on its anal fin several months after birth. Food Value: Very good. Where found: INSHORE, NEARSHORE and OFFSHORE. Size: Common from 5 - 30 pounds. Florida Blacktip Shark Record: 152 lbs. Blacktip Shark Fishing Techniques: Casting, Drifting, Still Fishing. Remarks: The blacktip shark primarily feeds on small schooling fish such as herring, sardines, menhaden, mullet, and anchovies, but also eats many other bony fish including catfishes, groupers, jacks, snook, porgies, grunts, croakers, flatfishes, triggerfish, and porcupine fish. They are also known to consume some elasmobranch species including dogfish, sharpnose sharks, young dusky sharks, skates, and stingrays. Crustaceans and squids are also occasionally taken. Blacktip Sharks, are known to breach out of the water while feeding, sometimes spinning up to three or four times around their axis. Call 941-544-6138 to book a trip to go Shark Fishing in Florida |
