Welcome to Naturally Salty, where you can catch me Surfing, Fishing, and having a good time! 🤙🏼 join me as I play with my camera gear to make cinematic footage mixed with some POV surfing and fishing. I’ll try to give you tips and tricks on fishing and we can watch as I make my attempts to finally make it out of a barreling wave.
Great video, not enough out there for real average Florida. The white board with the stringer, what is it and what dimensions? It seemed to work well in that small stuff.
Got bumped by a good sized bull shark on the Ponce Inlet side. Knocked me off my board while waiting for a set and came back at me and disappeared. Lost all my confidence in the water that day. This was just before those 6-7 bites within a short span back in the 90s.
The rare occasion was that the water was clear enough to see them. I stopped surfing NS because every time I went I'd either get smacked by a tail, have my board bumped, or just see one in the lineup next to me. Plus NS can get pretty crowded, so it just wasn't worth it. Playa Linda is my home break now and I love that spot. You can surf, fish, kayak and hike the area. If you enjoy evening/night sessions you may even be lucky enough to surf in bioluminescence.
Me and the same buddy from this vid made a trip out once before to playalinda but did not score!!! Was far too deep and wave wouldn’t break! Definitely gotta give it another try!
that board handled those small waves really well, you got some long rides & surfed it great. to me that looks like a lot of fun but i have pretty low standards 😅
The Place is definitely sharky, always has been. Its more fun being above black tips as they race through mullet balls. Or you paddle out early AM into a full blown migration "oh F...!" . Sharks are bad ... Crocs are worse. Cool Video!!!
@@christiancathey5059 Tico Guide: "If you don't want to get eaten surf big waves". They pouched 2 surfer one year I was there at Heraddura. I saw the biggest Tiger at Hermosa had a belly like a VW beetle. Crazy place wild times!!!
I've surfed here for 60 years and have been bit but the waves are definitely worth the risk. Bites range from a few holes to serious bone crunching trama.
I live and have surfed just south of New Smyrna for a number of years. Its unusual how many reports of shark bite they get every year. Almost allways minor cuts, teeth marks, not a lot of bleeding. The sharks there are usually small and not that aggressive. We do have bigger sharks in Florida, like bull sharks, but they don't seem to feed in that area. A good thing too because the bulls are deadly. Playa Linda, Cocoa Beach, Indiatlantic, and Melbourne, all just to the south, almost never get shark bite reports, but it does happen. Same thing, teeth marks, small lacerations, scrapes. Gutsy surfing.
Lived in NSB all my life. Surfed the inlet all my life. Yes, they are a lot worse now days. We always saw them when were out. I'm 70 now and don't surf anymore. I do a lot of surf photography at the inlet when it's good. I have been standing in waist deep water with a camera and have 6 and 7 foot black tips run at me and turn away so sharp that they splash water on me. It is their home and we are just visitors.
I can picture the scene you painted! I’d shit my self.. lmao any shark charging then realizing I’m not food would still spook the F out of me!!! They are like dogs to me and get excited in similar ways!
I lived in NSB twice for about a year would surf the inlet twice a day routinely regardless of conditions had many Blacktips and spinner sharks close by always they are rly just big sea cats…closest call was a bait mullet that was being chased by a bull shark that used me as a escape route and jumped over the nose of my surfboard ( I was laying instead of sitting because of the sharks 🦈) a large bull shark struck out of nowhere about 1 inch from my side in a last effort to get the mullet but didn’t bite me when it had the open opportunity to instead…. But being a inlet there’s a ton of shrimp boats bait fish around instead that’s their normal diet still scary af
Grew up surfing on South Padre Island, Tx, where one day l had drifted a little off from the crowd and suddenly noticed a 3ft baby blk Tip watching me, maybe 5-6ft away. Eye to eye we stared, then l thought where is momma at and then l had enough cat eyes on me so l slapped the nose of my board and it disappeared. I caught the next wave in as far as l could. I now live in Ft Lauderdale and have only surfed a few times but seen all the Saw fish and others spinning in circles which IMO is all the new Towers so what else may be going on, frequencies, something ain't right in their world nowadays. Drones are the way to scout out the areas and an Orca suit or a blk n Wht bottom board.
This was my home break for 90% of my life. I’m up in Ormond now but Im still aloud to catch waves. The locals are violent seething anarchist and the bull sharks will eat you hole. 😎
