We offer great shark fishing opportunities 45 minutes east of Orlando, Florida. If you would like to book one of our daily or nightly private shark fishing trips give us a call at 321-222-7511 or BOOK ONLINE HERE

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We get a lot of questions about shark fishing methods and regulations, here are FWC’s tips on Catch and release as well current shark fishing regulations.

Catch & release methods: Using the following techniques when fishing for shark, anglers can greatly increase fish survival rates.

• Use tackle heavy enough to land a fish quickly to reduce exhaustion, which could result in its death or weaken it making it more vulnerable to predators. (Prohibited species that die while on the line after being caught in state waters should be returned to the water.)
• Release the fish while it is in the water when possible.
• Use a de-hooking device  to remove hooks safely.
• Use non-stainless steel hooks – these hooks can dissolve if they remain in a fish.
• Use non-offset circle hooks when fishing with natural bait to avoid gut hooking a fish – circle hooks tend to hook fish in the jaw, making them easy to remove.
• Bend barbs down on hooks so they can be removed with less damage to a fish.

Shark Fishing Regulations

• Hook and line are the only allowable gear for harvesting sharks and the use of natural bait when using multiple hooks is prohibited
• Minimum fork length of 54 inches for all sharks (excluding Atlantic sharpnose, blacknose, blacktip, bonnethead, finetooth and smooth dogfish)
• Maximum of 1 shark per harvester per day or 2 per vessel, whichever is less
• Sharks are to be landed in whole condition, this includes landing sharks with heads and tails intact
• All harvest of the following shark species is prohibited:

Protected (Prohibited) Species

FWC says the following species of shark (or any part of any of the following species) are prohibited from all harvest, possession, landing, purchase, sale or exchange:

• Atlantic angel (Squatina dumeril)
• Basking (Cetorhinus maximus)
• Bigeye sand tiger (Odontaspis noronhai)
• Bigeye sixgill (Hexanchus nakamurai)
• Bigeye thresher (Alopias vulpinus)
• Bignose (Carcharhinus altimus)
• Caribbean reef (Carcharhinus perezii)
• Dusky (Carcharhinus obscurus)
• Galapagos (Carcharhinus galapagensis)
• Great hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran)
• Lemon shark (Negaprion brevirostris)
• Longfin mako (Isurus paucus)
• Narrowtooth (Carcharhinus brachyurus)
• Night (Carcharhinus signatus)
• Sandbar (Carcharhinus plumbeus)
• Sand tiger (Odontaspis taurus)
• Scalloped hammerhead (Sphryna lewini)
• Sevengill (Heptranchias perlo)
• Silky (Carcharhinus falciformis)
• Sixgill shark (Hexanchus griseus)
• Smalltail (Carcharhinus porosus)
• Smooth hammerhead (Sphyrna zygaena)
• Tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier)
• Whale (Rhincodon typus)
• White (Carcharodon carcharias)

Shark Management Changes

The FWC Commissioners passed a rule that prohibits the recreational harvest of tiger sharks and great, scalloped and smooth hammerhead sharks. The rule took effect January 1, 2012.

Anglers may catch and release prohibited shark species in state waters.

Anglers may also catch and take some species of shark in federal waters and land them in Florida but boats traveling through state waters carrying shark must not stop in state waters until the fish are landed.