August 20, 2013 — Scotland waterman John “Willy” Dean caught two bull sharks Tuesday morning in the lower Potomac River.
Dean left the boat launch at Point Lookout State Park Tuesday morning with his son Greg Dean and Rich Richie to check on a pound net off Cornfield Harbor. A Maryland Department of Natural Resources biologist was aboard as well, on a routine trip to measure fish species caught in the net.
They discovered the first shark at 6:30 a.m. and found another swimming in the pound net enclosure at the same time. They pulled out the first shark, which was already dead, and the other fish in the net. They went back later at 11 a.m. to pull up the other shark, which was dispatched on board.
Willy Dean iced down the two bull sharks in a backyard walk-in cooler and intends to give them over for scientific research.
Both sharks were male, weighing about 220 pounds each, Greg Dean said. One was 8 feet long, the other 8 feet, 3 inches, he said.
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