BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - The Spencers of Sprat Net, Old Road, have made another bumper catch. This time it is a huge tiger shark.
The tiger shark estimated to be about 18 feet long and weighing about one thousand (1000) pounds was caught just off Sandy Point early this morning.
When asked how long it took to pull it in, Spencer replied, “Not very long because we met it on the line already and we just had to pull it in.
Pulling the shark in appeared to be a family effort. All three Spencer ‘boys’ – Nicky, Marcus and Jack, along with their sons – were involved in this fishing excursion, an exercise in which they are regularly engaged.
Not only do they supply their own ‘Sprat Net’ restaurant with various types of seafood, but often they are able to supply others.
“Do people favour eating tiger shark?” was another question asked of the fishermen as they were taking their catch from Old Road to Basseterre.
“Yeah, man, people eat this all the time,” was the reply.
But don’t go rushing to Sprat Net tonight for tiger shark, for the fishers said it won’t be there as a delicacy tonight but it will be pretty soon.
It was just in July of this year that this media house reported on the ‘whopper of a marlin’ brought in by the Spencers. That fish was 11 feet long and weighed a whopping 420 pounds.
That fish was also caught about four miles off Sandy Point and at that time one of the Spencers was heard to say that he will not celebrate the catching of that whopper Marlin fish until he is successful in bringing in a much bigger one.
The tiger shark brought in this morning was indeed a much bigger fish. Is it time to celebrate yet or are there yet even bigger fish out to sea? We are sure to find out soon from the Spencers of Sprat Net, one of the most successful fisher families of Old Road whose family tradition in fishing runs for about four generations now.
