Tank shoot me a PM if he is still selling. Been looking. Thanks sir!
You caught a mako on an inflatable..... damn they come aboard pissed with teeth flying!Back in the 80's and early 90's when we had our sportsfisher, I kinda went through an "Inflatable" infatuation phase.
Started small, then kept working my way up to finally the fiberglass hulled RIP style that I was now hauling around on a trailer.
Most fun I'd had boating since I was a kid, so we hauled those damned rubber boats with us everywhere we traveled.
On our Honeymoon in 83', we headed to rent our Houseboat on Mead with an inflatable and 8 hp Mariner engine stuffed under the hatch of our Camaro. Then used it to explore the lower Grand Canyon with the houseboat beached near Pierces Ferry.
My long time best buddy is still using that same 8 HP Mariner up in Oregon when he fishes some rivers.
Even rented a 14' Zodiac during one Hawaii vacation and used it for diving out at the Molokini Crater. The stiff wind and large cresting waves stood that damn thing right on it's stern a few times when we didn't head in early enough. But we were having so much fun surviving Mommy Natures wrath, we just kept charging.
In San Diego, got so I'd head out in the early morning while my wife was still asleep in the berth and end up 15 miles off of San Diego trolling, or off of La Jolla searching for Yellowtail or Kelp Bass. I just carried a handheld VHF in case my trusty Mariner decided to quit or shark bit my tube.
I did land a nice Mako right off Avalon Harbor in an inflatable, that was a real Keystone Cops Goes Fishing moment.
I haven't owned one since we sold the ocean boat and recreationally migrated to Havasu, but I stop and eyeball them hard at every boat show.
Can't help but notice -- HOLY HELL they've gotten expensive !!!!!!!!!
So expensive, I'm not sure how I'd feel having one beat to crap at the Avalon Dingy Dock.
While most sharks you hook just conserve their energy by swimming in slow circles, forcing you to play tug-o-war, Makos can be really feisty and put on one hell of a show. Especially when you get them real close and try to stick them with a flying gaf --- they seem to take that real personal. 
Just guessing, but whenever I look at the new ones at the show I'm blown away. But then the last one I had was sportin a 25 HP 2 stroke Mariner, that was probably 1/3 of the price of that Merc 50 HP.
Love it.... I chartered Bongo II out of Nprt for Catalina day fishing w kids 8 &10.... I hooked a 7' Mako and when I got it close the captain said you might wanna have kids go down below.... he began murdering that damn fish with a sledge hammer before bringing it aboard. Glad I had kids out of sight.I tell ya, it would have made for one hell of a sensational YouTube video. You know that Makos like to leap out of the water ?
You know what happens when you're in a rubber boat and you try to gaf a shark ? Well you tend to pull yourself right into his smiling teeth.
Twice I failed and ended up kicking him back out of my rubber boat, but eventually I was able to stick him. Then released the gaf head, and started towing him behind the inflatable.
Towed him all the way back into the harbor and to my moored big boat. You should have seen the looks from the adjacent boats.
Then the questions started like " Where'd you find that ?", "What is it ? ", " Is it alive ?" " Can't you see there kids swimming around here ? "
You know, dumb questions like that.
Would be interested in more info or pics if this still available also been thinking of something like this for fishing Havasu etc.
