Katie UR: Long time, No See

I would love to be writing that I have finally caught a shark and I have finally gotten a swab but the sad truth is I have not. But I am going to up date you guys on the last couple places I have gone to go shark fishing. I have been out three more times since the last three and each time we have had major hits and bites but not an actual shark.

Site 4

Location: Buena Vista Park NSB

Date:04/04/2018

Time in: 12:33pm
Time Out: 4:56pm
Compass:29'2'13 N 80'54'29 W
Temp: 76 Degrees
Condition: Super hot and Calm
Poles out:9 poles out with frozen Mullet on the hooks
Details: We didn’t have anything really happen here. We caught Greenbacks as bait and had a Jack Attack but that was about it. 

Site 5

Location: Ponce Inlet

Date:04/06/2018

Time in: 9:30am
Time Out: 12:56am
Compass:29.28'42 N 81.8'W
Temp: 72 degrees
Condition: Cool out and beautiful
Poles out:9 poles out with frozen Mullet on the hooks
Details: We caught 4 bluefish.

So as you can see it hasn’t been much happening yet so I thought I would ask the help of people who live locally in New Smyrna Beach and Ponce Inlet. I got in contact with a man by the name of Wayne. He does sessions with people who are dying to land a shark, AKA me. I called him and we talked about the project and he told me he would allow me to come to some of his sessions to get swabs from any shark that is caught during those times! He told me that he knows and is a 100% sure we will have a shark within the week! I am excited to see what we will catch and I will make sure I take tons of pictures of what we catch, which I hope is something.

Brain Kimball with a Nurse Shark

However I do have some pictures from family friends who have had better luck than me in catching sharks! Brian Kimball of Ormond Beach has been catching sharks off Sunglow Pier and I have gone out their twice but have not been as lucky enough to catch them, but we will keep trying! He has a cool thing where he can shoot his bait out of and it sends it further out then if you would've tried by yourself.

Brian Kimball with a Blacktip.

Brian Kimball's Bonnet Head he caught.

Corey James,another family friend, has also been winning big with catching the sharks. He has been in Sebastian Inlet catching these one though. I am debating on taking the drive to go there just to catch some sharks!

Corey James with his Blacktip

I got asked some questions by some of the Oceanography class so Im just going to answer some of the questions!

Jason from section 23 asked What do bacteria look like and how do you tell one tiny bacteria apart from another?

Bacteria can look like a lot of things but the one thing that makes it easier for us as people to decipher what it actually looks like that and that shape. Bacteria can be in shape of clumped circles( Coccus), rod shaped( bacillus), and lastly in a spiral shape(sprillum)     

The good thing about bacteria is that there isn't much to them. Even though the shape is how you can tell how a bacteria looks but you can also use the shape if the bacteria to classify it.

Bacteria Shapes

Tomorrow I will be posting my Dropsical for Bacteria: The Untold Story From a Sharks Mouth!