I'm not quite following the math, twice now I've had a nice trout hauled off by the men in grey. This is typically within 10-15 seconds of the fight. Which got me wondering are the sharks hanging with big trout (or vice-versa)? Water was 3-4' deep. Is this a general rule of thumb? Like cobias and rays, poon and bulls...
I caught 3-4 nice sized jacks and the fight was much longer in the same water and there were no issues. I did have 2 Jacks on at once - which was pretty cool. Feels like a beast on the other end of the line. Hooks were all bent to hell.
I've not read about other people having the same issue. So perhaps it's just bad timing/luck.
For the record, I was using a silver shallow water bait buster across the surface. I was tired of hanging weeds and that seemed to work pretty good for trout and reds. I was hoping for snook too (or a wandering poon).
One last note - after catching enough Jacks I took some photos of the frenzy and did a spectacularly lousy job; because I wasn't close enough, the autofocus focused on the horizon (aka. infinity), so 99% of the shots were messed up. I think it also freaks out on all the motion of th ebirds, so it doesn't know what to focus on - after a bit it says, "The hell with it I'm going to infinity."
Lesson learned. Below was the best. Shooting from a kayak is a lot harder than being a land lubber with a tripod.
The Black Tips sometimes hit the arties, but not too many Bulls that I've seen.. 