Shark Trip 05/27/2017

On Saturday, 05/27/2017, the crew included: Dana Seiler, Lawrence Song, Steve Giles, Kirk and Cody Rothgeb. We left the slip at 6:00 am headed to a wreck site 31 miles southeast of the Ocean City Inlet. The wreck site, Marine Electric, is a 605' bulk carrier ship that sunk on February 12th, 1983. Once we arrived at the wreck we rigged up several small rods to try our luck at sea bass. The crew wanted to catch a few for the grill and we wanted a few for shark bait. Fortunately the fish we were hungry and we put close to 30 sea bass in their cooler and then decided it was time to try our luck with the sharks. We moved about 2 miles east of the wreck and began chumming. Over the course of the next 5 hours we had seven sharks hooked up and were able to get 5 to the boat and then released. Cody Rothgeb (16  yrs. old) had never been offshore fishing until today and caught his 1st and 2nd shark.